What's the best food and feeding schedule for my indoor cat's health?

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My Hunny Cat “Bella” is an indoor cat. Is it important that I give her dry food or wet food specifically for indoor cats? Should her food be grain free? I want to give her the very best food to ensure a long healthy life. My sister suggested Nutro. How do you feel about it & do you have a different suggestion? One more thing, I give her dry food in the morning for the entire day then I give her half a can of wet food every other night. Is that ok? I read wet food was better for them True? Pet's info: Cat | Siamese | Female | spayed | 2 years and 1 month old | 13 lbs

Eryn Taormina, DVM · Accepted Answer

Hi there! Hunny Cat is very cute! I believe it's better to feed cats canned food. It has more moisture and adds a little bit more hydration to their daily intake. Later in life, cats can commonly develop kidney disease and/or urinary bladder disease. In both cases, cats will benefit greatly from the increased water content of a canned diet. The canned food is a lot better too to help keep an indoor cat's weight in check. All indoor cats have a tendency to become overweight, as they don't exercise as much as feral cats. Since cats usually will ingest the canned food right away, it is easier to portion the food out and also provide cats with meal times. This is very helpful to increase their metabolism, and to help discourage them from gaining weight. Far too often, we see cats being fed a pile of dried food in a bowl where they eat buffet-style on and off all day long. This can easily lead to weight gain and obesity, as well as all sorts of health problems. Nutro is good food, and so is tiki cat, weruva, science diet, royal canin, and iams/eukanuba, Purina is also good. I just like for pets to have a balanced diet. Grain free isn't really a necessity, but thus far in cats, we're not really seeing too many issues. I hope you find this answer helpful! Best of luck!

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