For years, my cats ate almost exclusively a premium pet-store quality dry food mixture. I would give them a treat of canned wet food a few times a week at most.

Two years ago, I had to switch my oldest exclusively to wet because he has lymphoma of the small intestine (he is doing well with chemo, thankfully). He is totally off dry. Needless to say, while I am glad he is doing well, going back to cans reminded me why dry food is so much easier for us humans.

Subsequent to his switch, I am hearing that I should now switch the remaining two cats over to wet, as well---either exclusively, or perhaps a modified diet of a small amount of wet food daily and keeping the dry food out for them to graze, as I do now.

I am told that wet food will help control weight (both are overweight) only if I completely eliminate the dry, because going to wet while keeping dry around will only give them something to snack on.

As an experiment, I tried giving each a half 3 oz can of wet daily, keeping the dry around; I started this a week ago. What I noticed, to my surprise, is that they cut back on their consumption of dry dramatically, as much as 90%. So maybe they know better than people do!

Think I should keep this up and see what happens? If they eat some wet food daily and only graze slightly on the dry, will they lose weight?

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