Troll.

Gee I didn't know that.......who resolved it you....??

All of a sudden everyone thinks the only issue is if the dry food
cleans teeth. The issue is if the dry or wet food gives them all the
nutrients they need and is healthy for them.

Brad

LIFE'S JOURNEY IS NOT TO ARRIVE AT THE GRAVE SAFELY IN A
WELL-PRESERVED BODY, BUT RATHER TO SKID IN SIDEWAYS, TOTALLY WORN OUT,
SHOUTING... " HOLY @#$%... WHAT A RIDE!"

Steve Crane lied:

Not true. Feeding canned food has been shown to consistently and
sometimes dramatically reduce insulin needs in diabetic cats, with some
cats requiring no insulin after switching to an all canned diet. It does
not take a rocket scientst to understand that high carb content is
related to diabetes and probably causes it.
That's a study your company will never fund, because the results would
be financially catastrophic.  

And since your on your bender about kidney failure, it is more likely
that the rise in CRF is because there are more cats eating a convenient
(to people) dry diet and thus living in a lifetime chronic state of
dehydration, which in turn stresses the kidneys and results in CRF. I
doubt your company will be doing any studies on that either for obvious
reasons.

Megan

                                   

Wow, I should bet on the ponies.

[Had 2 cats with this problem. Both died from it. Both exclusively ate dry
food.]

Tony Buffington found a link- although not necessarily a cause between IC
and dry food.  His comment in CVT:

"This does not mean that dry food consumption causes IC, but it could mean
that dry food consumption unmasks or aggravates the disorder in cats that
are predisposed to it (making it a nutrient-sensitive rather than a
diet-induced disease)."

You know and I know that once IC is unmasked it can be a recurring problem
even after the cat is switched to a canned diet.  The way I see it, why take
the risk since there is little if any benefit in feeding dry food to cats-
maybe just a little if the nuggets are large and not brittle.

Debra Grecco and Mark Peterson- former professor of endocrinology at Cornel
and who now heads up the endocrinology dept.at AMC believe that the high
carbohydrate content of most dry foods stresses the pancreas and unmasks
subclinical diabetes in cats with underlying disease and may predispose
other cats to the disease.  Again, since there's little benefit in feeding
dry food to cats, why even take the risk?

Cats fed canned food not only have higher urine volumes, they have a higher
water *intake* than cats fed canned food. See the NRC:

"A number of studies have been conducted in which the ratio of free water to
dry matter intake of cats has been measured (Carver and Waterhouse, 1962;
Thrall and Miller, 1976; Holme, 1977; Jackson and Tovey, 1977; Seefeldt and
Chapman, 1979). Anderson (1983) summarized these data and showed that for
commercial dry foods the ratio of water to dry matter intake varied from 2.0
to 2.8-1 and for canned foods from 3.0 to 5.7: 1."  (That's about 150% to
200% higher water intake on canned).

"All studies on water and dry matter intakes of cats indicate higher total
free water to dry matter ratios for cats given commercial canned food diets
than for cats given commercial dry foods. That is, cats given dry food do
not voluntarily consume water to equal the ratio of water to dry matter of
cats given canned diets containing about 75 percent moisture." (NRC)

Good hydration status will prevent or at least forestall dehydration in
stressed or diseased states. ...not to mention that canned food is also more
digestible than equal quality dry food- that also comes from Tony
Buffington.

I think we'll see a link between CRF and dry food, too, within the next few
years.

Phil