How much food for a cat

Question

how much dry food should i give my cat

Answer 1

If your feeding something that you can find in a grocery store or walmart. It has barley anything that cats actually need so you'll need to feed bowl after bowl after bowl for them to be satisfied. I reccomend Wellness you'll only need to feed about 4-5 tablespoons of it because it actually has real meat,and human grade fruits and vegetables. You can find Wellness at petco.

Answer 2

None, you should feed wet :). The reason is, in the wild, cats normally get most of their water content directly from their prey items and drink very little. Domestic cats are no different, and because of the fact that they are designed to take in water with their meal, they have a very low thirst drive. Cats often just don't drink enough. This leads to urinary tract infections and crystals. The bit about dry food being better for teeth is a myth and has not been proven in the least. Canned/wet food is better because it more closely mimics the cat's natural diet. More on why canned food is best:

http://www.catinfo.org/  (Excellent cat nutrition information by a vet)

http://cats.about.com/cs/catfood/a/canne...

http://www.littlebigcat.com/index.php?ac...

How much you need to feed should be detailed on the back of the bag of food. I'd go with a high quality food. Less filler material means more concentrated nutrients... this means you typically need to feed far less of the high quality food than you would of the low quality one. Which also means less p**p!

Examples of low quality foods to avoid: Anything you can find in a grocery store will be low end, Purina, Iams, Eukanuba, Science Diet, Royal Canin, Whiskas, Fancy Feast, Friskies, Meow Mix.

Examples of high quality foods to look for: Innova, Wellness, Solid Gold, Felidae, Fromm, Merrick, GO Natural, Nature's Variety, Nature's Logic.

Answer 3

It really depends on the weight of your cat, the bag of food should give you the amount needed for your cats weight.