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Just wondering how you guys balance the mix of these. Our cats looooove wet food, but keep it as a treat for every now and then. Have to keep the wet cat food in a plastic sealed container as our cats will tear through the box they come in and dig their way through haha.

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[–] tdawg 1 points 6 months ago

Dry from the automated machine during the day. Wet at night from a can

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

2 cats.

Their automatic feeder spits out ~10 grams of dry food 7 times throughout the day. They mostly worked out their own system for sharing and taking turns. I often manually give one more if one of them complains. The small portions helped with competitive over-eating and vomiting.

Then at night they get about 25 grams each of wet food. So a 5.5 oz. can lasts 3 days.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

Wet food twice per day portioned by weight of the cat, and then an automatic feeder gives them a little bit of dental health dry food that dispenses at noon and midnight to keep them from getting hungry and scratching my toes.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

We feed them primaly wet food 3 times a day. But if we are away over 9 hours, we give them dry food in toys to find.

All three of them gain weight easily, so we have to control their food intake

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

We only feed dry food.

[–] Weirdmusic 1 points 6 months ago

Dry food in the mornings and wet food at night. Never have any issues with weight and my cats always live long, leisure filled life's.

[–] sygnius 1 points 6 months ago

I fed my cat 1 scoop of dry food in the day, and half a can of wet food at night.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

Fill dry food in the morning (for the day), wet food after I get home from work (night).

[–] pjwestin 1 points 6 months ago

We feed out cat wet food every day, but not a lot. Wet food is much better for cats because dry food has a lot of carbs, which cats really shouldn't have in their diet. Our cat is a pretty picky eater though, and we don't want to put down wet food just to watch it dry out and get thrown away, so we give her a small amount of dry food in the morning, and a little more dry food at night with a tablespoon of wet food.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 6 months ago

Never. Strictly raw food.

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