¿Cómo alimentar a tu gato: comida seca o húmeda? 😼 Pienso/cuido VS. latitas/patés. ¿Qué es mejor?

Hey, you're going to have dry food and wet food, because I'm here to tell you the pros and cons of each one. And you too. Hello, I'm Carlos, a clinical veterinarian at Small Animals. Welcome to the Happy Pets and Families Channel. Food is an endless topic of questions about cats, and it's also an endless topic to make videos about. What's up? What's up? Well, the thing is that you often ask me about feeding your cats whether you should give them dry food or wet food. And I don't really know why it's taken us so long to make this video. But today I'm here to answer all your questions. First, we're going to look at the advantages and disadvantages of both dry food feedback, care, kibble, balanced food, or whatever you call it in your area, as well as wet food, whether in the form of pate, in a can with broth, or also in the form of a sachet. Let's see which one we should choose to feed our cats. Advantages of dry food the first, which is very important, is that it is beneficial for their teeth. Dry food being hard makes the cat work harder to chew, and the hardness of the food drags away the plaque that is deposited on the surface of your cat's teeth, so to speak. It is as if your cat were eating and brushing its teeth at the same time with dry food. Wet food, however, does not help their teeth stay clean at all. And remember, this is very important because if we take care of cats teeth throughout their lives when they are older, we will prevent them from getting periodontal disease and losing a large number of teeth. In addition, this periodontal disease can also negatively affect other parts of their body so, such as the kidneys. In other words, note how important it is to give your cat dry food. The second advantage is how long it lasts. Bacteria cannot grow because dry food has very little water, which is its main preservative. You can buy a lot of dry food because it takes a long time to go bad, but that's not the main advantage. For me, the most important thing is that you can give your cat its food many hours in advance because you know it won't go bad, something that wet food might do if it's left out of the fridge for a long time, or if your cat keeps it on its plate for a long time. Bacteria can grow, especially if it's very hot. This will be especially useful if you're one of those humans who spends a lot of time away from home and don't think that this is just an advantage for you. It's also an advantage for your cat because if your cat ends up eating food that has a lot of bacteria, it could just cause diarrhea and be a health problem. It's also the best option for feeding cats that live on the street in colonies, precisely because it won't decompose. And it's also much more hygienic, leaving much less residue. And the third advantage is that it allows you to feed your cat in a way that's more suitable for it using dry food. You can have different dispensers around the house, these little toys that the cat paws it, and release small grains of food so that the cat has to, so to speak, earn its food, be much more active, much more alert. And it is more suitable for it because it will combine physical exercise with food. You can't do that with wet food. And of course, when I'm talking about dry food, I'm referring to quality food, which we already saw how to identify on the label in this video. Stop by when you finish watching this one. And what are the advantages of wet food? You can, you may ask me. The first advantage is that it is much more satiating than dry food. Why? Well, because it has a large amount of water, so that makes it have a larger volume. This is very important for cats that are always on the lookout for food. So if you give these cats wet food, they will fill up much sooner than with dry food and this will prevent them from getting fat. The second advantage, which is the big advantage, is that as I said before, it has a large amount of water and this helps the cat to be much more hydrated. There are many cats that do not usually drink much water from their air, and in this way you will be hydrating them without them realizing it because they are, so to speak, drinking and eating at the same time. And this is very, very important because it helps them to have better health in the entire urinary system, including the kidneys and bladder. It also reduces the risk of stones forming, etc. So stones, crystals, if they only eat dry food or kibble, they will need to drink much more water. Wet food is a little help in this regard, but giving your cat wet food does not mean that you have to take away their drinking fountains. Your cat should always have water available. Please, let's not do anything crazy. And you should be concerned if your cat never drinks water from the drinking fountain. If your cat eats a lot of wet food, it's normal for them to drink very little water from the drinking fountain, but they usually drink a small amount of water, even if it's very, very small. It could also be that your cat doesn't drink from the drinking fountain because they don't like it and they drink from somewhere else in your house, I don't know, from the toilet, the shower, the dish, the flower pots, and you can't control that. And the third advantage is that it's much more appetizing. Well, I'm not telling you anything here. It's clear that the cat will be much more attracted to food that's a bit sticky, a bit greasy and so on than to dry food that nobody will eat. Well, this is especially important for those cats that are a bit more finicky and don't want to eat a lot, because if you want them to be well nourished, reinforce them with wet food, because that way you'll make sure that they eat all their rations and that you leave the dish spotless. And one very, very important thing, if you give your cat wet food, you have to make sure that their bowls are always clean. You always have to clean them after each feeding because bacteria can grow in all the residue left by wet food, which, as we said, causes can ultimately harm them. This is a disadvantage compared to dry food because dry food leaves fewer residues. Hey, here you can expect a lot of comments like, oh, my cat only wants dry food. He only wants wet food. Let's talk about that. Now, don't get ahead of yourself, Jose. And now that I've already confused you, what do we give them? Dry food, wet food, or do we mix them or how do we do it? Well, I always recommend that cats be given dry food and wet food together and mixed, not separately, because if you mix dry food with wet food, you'll be losing most of the benefits of dry food. The grain will soften and then it won't clean the teeth anymore. It will leave everything dirty in the end. Well, you're going to have all the drawbacks of wet food and you're not going to be providing any extra benefits for your cat. So when should you give your cat dry food? Or when should you give your cat wet food? I recommend that one of the meals a day be wet food. And which one? Well, the one you're in charge of. Generally, it's usually at dinner time. In other words, it doesn't matter if you give it to them at night or during the day. But if you've already created a habit, a routine of this one meal a Day it should always be wet food. It's easier for you to repeat it and not forget. And therefore you give them dry food at the rest of the meals. If you're one of those who leaves their bowl full of dry food all day, when they go to eat their wet food, take it away. And I would recommend that you take it away at night too, because then your cat will eat or have double the amount of dinner. You're going to eat the can on one side and then when you put the overflowing bowl in front of him again, he's going to start eating like crazy. I'm not in favor of giving him food all day long because then there are many cats that don't control themselves and get fat.

But my cat doesn't do that. Well, a pin for your cat. But since I have to speak for all the cats in the universe, I prefer it that way with ordered meals.

But if you give him wet food, you'll have to take away some of the dry food he eats so he doesn't eat so much.

No, Jose is laughing evilly. That's the key. Since this video is going to take up a bit of my time and you're going to tell me at the end that it's a lot of blah, blah, blah. If you're interested in exactly how much of each, I'll tell you in another video. So stay tuned to the channel that will come out in the next few.

Weeks and for real, because we recorded it now. Yes, and questions that I know you're going to ask me. At what age should I start feeding my cat dry food and wet food? Well, from the moment your cat starts eating dry food, around one to one and a half months old. At that age you should start feeding them one of their canned wet food. What if my cat is very old and doesn't eat dry food? Can I only feed them wet food? Yes, there are some cats that have dental problems that are already very old or that don't want to eat much. And for those cats it is recommended that they eat something before they run out of food. In other words, wet food is complete and can nourish a cat perfectly. Another question that has been asked for a long time. And for not so old cats without any problems that simply don't like dry food, can they only eat wet food?

Yes, but you should keep in mind the problems that come with only eating wet food, which is for example, that their mouth gets much dirtier. In these cases, I recommend that you try to get your cat back on dry Food. And to do this you will have to make a gradual transition. Start by gradually mixing the dry food grains with the wet food that he was already eating. You will gradually increase the amount of dry food and reduce the amount of wet food so that he first adapts to the taste of the new food and then adapts to the texture, which. To the drier texture that he has to bite, etc. And of course your cat is a hyper intelligent being. If he knows that if he doesn't eat his dry food, he will get wet food, most cats will. Wait. If you don't have that willpower, your cat will manipulate you. And in the end you will always end up nagging him and you will end up putting the dry food aside. And that, as I have said, can have negative consequences. For example, for his mouth and for the rest of his body. And with all this that I have told you, it is very important that you remember something. For a cat to be healthy, it is important that it eats dry food and wet food, both together, not mixed. Well, you heard what I just said, right? That's the end of the nonsense. Dry food and wet food for both. And I don't care what you think. This one is more conformist. And that's it for today's video. If you liked it, give it a like and share it with everyone. Remember to subscribe to our channel. Well, to our channels, because here on YouTube we have a secondary channel called Questions and Answers from a Veterinarian where we also talk about cat stuff and stuff like that. Well, subscribe to both and hit the bell on both channels so that YouTube will notify you every time we upload new content. Thank you very much for following the Happy Pets and Families channel. And I'll see you in the next video, okay, Because I have to introduce some cats. And today we meet Kiera, who lives in Santiago, Chile, with Helen Patrick Castro Zarate and Agostina. Laquona introduces us to Sakti, who is celebrating his third month. Congratulations, Sak T. And Karim has chosen to live with Luis Garcia. He says he came home all by himself. He is already vaccinated and dewormed. Well done, Luis. And now thank you very much for following the Happy Pets and Families channel. And I'll see you in the next video. You'll end up with no more nonsense. Dry food and dry food. No, don't give him dry food.

Oh, okay. Yes, I'm getting sidetracked. No, a smaller amount. No, no, it's because it has more volume. Since it has more water, it has more volume. Okay. Dry food. Dry food. Dry food. Wet food. Wet food. Wet food. What do we want? Dry food. Feed, care, Kibble, kibble maker, whatever you call it on your site, which I know you always put in the comments. Let's see if that's what we're talking about. I'm not going to recommend that you give your cat the first thing you find at Mercadona. It takes a very long time for them to get sick, right?

No, because it takes a long time. Okay. Okay.

Y ventriloquist, not ventricle. Oh, Totoro. And your rival. It takes a long time for bacteria to grow. It takes a long time for it to grow. It's not like there are already many things. I'm thinking about some kittens a little earlier. Well, a little later. I probably don't want to tell you that I was going to say some earlier and others later, but it's usually within a month. It's hard to explain. Yeah.