An all dry food diet is okay as long as he gets plenty of water.
You might try feeding him baby food. Buy the meats for babies who
are just starting to eat solid food.

I'm no expert so this is just a suggestion.

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My Tigger has been on dry food for over 16 years. She drinks plenty of water
(and passes plenty). The only health problem she has ever had is her
arthritis and that only developed over the last few years. She was also
overweight so that may have been a contributing factor to the arthritis. I
think her weight problem developed when we started keeping her inside. She
was getting older and less active and we continued to feed her the same
amount as always. Her blood work indicates no problems and the values are
"very good for a cat her age" (according to the vet) and she has never had
any dental problems. I'm sure each cat is different but dry food isn't
necessarily a death sentence either. I'm not promoting a dry only menu. It
just seems to me that the main goal is to get a quality diet into the animal
in what ever form they will tolerate.

I think I'd ask the vet about it. I'd want to know whether the difficulty
handling wet food was because of a physiological problem. Maybe he just
doesn't like the consistency and it's "gagging" him.

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MabelHi everyone just wondering if anyone else has this trouble with there
cats. My male cat Rocky when he was a kitten would choke every time he ate
the wet cat food... he was to little to eat the dry food so we had to just
let him eat the wet even though he would choke and cough and everything. He
got sick and we had to give him antibiotics ... I cant remember what he had
a respiratory infection or sinus infection. Anyway he is older now and we
give our cats all dry food with an occasional can of wet food. Still every
time he eats the wet food he coughs and chokes and sneezes. He doesn't get
it up his nose when he eats so I don't know what goes on. Assuming he has a
slight cleft palate or something. As long as he eats only dry food he's fine
but I worry that giving him only dry food wont be good for him ....

Wet food is better, but we've had cats that lived long, healthy lives
only eating dry. The thing is that the wet food has more water, and many
cats don't get enough water eating only dry.

My aunt's cats, both males, lived to be over 19 years old eating only
high-quality dry food and drinking plenty of water.
However, my male died at only 4 from a blocked urinary tract that was
due to stones.
So, I'd say talk it over with your vet and keep a close eye on how much
he drinks, urinates, and his comfort level in his litterbox. Wet food is
certainly best, but he won't necessarily get sick without it. Some cats
are more prone to blockages and stones, though, so if he's one of those,
wet might be required. Your vet is the one to talk to about that. I'd
wonder, though, why he chokes on wet, but you didn't mention how well he
drinks. If it were a cleft, drinking should also be an issue, in which
case dry food only wouldn't be a good diet for him. I'd also think a
cleft would have prevented proper nursing as a kitten, so would have
been diagnosed already.
Also, you didn't mention if the wet is the kind that's soft, or the kind
with meaty chunks or slices. If it's the soft, try the slices. If it's
the slices, try the soft.
Perhaps you should take him in for a checkup to verify that what the
problem is before deciding one way or the other.