is wet food or dry food better for dogs?
Wet comes in cans and can be stored easily without worrying about it attracting pests or spoiling. Wet has a higher water and oil content which is needed for healthy coats. Wet is closer to the meat that is what a dog would be eating in nature.
Dry Food helps build strong teeth. dry food generally has a lower amount of fat and oil but usually contains corn and wheat and artificial flavouring which is terrible for dogs. dry food tends to get more pests in left out long enough
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Dry dog food is generally grain based baked product sprayed with flavor and nutrients. Canned food doesn't supply teeth cleaning or roughage.
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I was always instructed, and learned in the few nutrition courses in veterinary school (nutrition is much better covered in veterinary school these days) that an imbalance of calcium and phosphorus in a dog's diet would lead to health disasters. This holds true today, too. I was instructed that "since meat is high in phosphorus and lower in calcium, too much meat is not good for dogs over long periods of time". (Many people still confuse the disastrous all meat diets with meat-based diets; one is not good the other is ideal.) Grain-based diets for dogs, and even more so for cats, do not make nutritional sense and that was exactly why I was seeing those patients with the dry and flaky, sometimes greasy skin and coarse hair coats. They were eating "Complete and Balanced" grain-based diets with nothing else added. Why add anything when it is "Complete and Balanced" already?
My enlightenment came one day, decades ago, when I saw another litter owned by a local Bloodhound breeder. This fellow seemed to me to be quiet and unassuming, didn't act like a "know-it-all", didn't ever have to bring any of his dogs in for anything other than vaccinations. When I'd ask him what he was feeding his dogs we would get into our annual nutritional discussion and I'd keep warning him about the home-made recipe and all that meat he had been feeding his dogs for years. Funny thing was, his dogs were among the very best I had ever seen. All his litters, and adult dogs, were robust, had perfect skin and coats even at six weeks of age, and never had to come in for skin problems, skeletal dysfunction, gastrointestinal problems or oral health issues. This breeder was sending his pups all over the country and there I was trying to tell him to be careful about "feeding too much meat" and I'd talk about such things as "a 'Complete and Balanced' commercial dog food would be best, make sure you don't get skeletal problems". I wondered why I felt rather foolish instructing him because I honestly thought his dogs were in optimum health. The answer came to me, finally, on its own. It seeped into my consciousness after years of seeing a pattern. The key to the healthy dogs' diets was that they were consuming a diet based upon meat and the poor doers were eating diets based upon grain such as corn!
dry.wet once in awhile for a treat.
Dry
Dry is definately better. Wet food is full of additives and crap for "easy storage" and can really upset a dog's stomach. I would feed my dog a mostly dry food diet, with a little bit of wet food (2 tbsp) per meal or so.
All the things you mentioned being bad about dry food are not true in a good quality kibble. Also, a high water content is not needed for healthy coats, nor does wet food have more oil than dry food.
Overall, dry food is better as it is good for the teeth and has just as good of a nutritional value as wet food.
If your dry food it getting pests in it, buy a container made for pet food. It is sealed tight and many are large enough to hold a full huge bag.
Dry is better for your dog. Every once in a while you can give your dog wet as a treat but not to often because they wil get attached to it very easy. Wet food is not good for thier teeth or digestive track if given on a regular basis.
a very good quality Dry dog food is best - in my opinion
Look for brands like Innova - EVO, Candee , %26 similar
Dry food is best for dogs. As long as you have a clean, dry place to store it (an airtight plastic container?) you should have no problems with bugs or spoiling. The wet or canned food smells nasty and just rots their teeth, whereas the dry food actually helps to keep their teeth clean.
As long as your dog's teeth are fine, you should probably feed only dry kibble. It's cheaper, too, in the long run.
Just buy a good brand of food (NOT gravy train or ol' roy or whatever you can pick up at wal*mart) and follow the feeding instructions to make sure your dog is getting the proper amount. Your vet will be able to tell you if your dog is getting enough of what he needs. If your dog's coat seems dry, ask the vet about supplements to enhance his coat ... that's better than feeding a canned food.
I don't use commercial food for my dog . Neither forms could ever claim to be close to what dogs would eat in nature. Dogs don't cook and they don't farm grains - they hunt game and forage occasionally on fruit and berries. I feed a prey model diet based on raw meaty bones because I believe it is the best choice for the health and well being of my dog. This means raw meaty bones, offal and the occasional table scraps.
**80% of commercial fed dogs have peridontal disease by the age of three while RMB fed dogs very rarely have issues with their teeth and gums.
dogs like something dry... try give it to your pet
I dont have a prefrence on either one because I mix both types together in equal portions. I have had my dogs for 6 years and the vet still can not believe how nice their teeth look. He always asks if I just had them cleaned because they have no tarter and I dont brush there teeth. The oldest dog is nearly 9 and the youngest is 7.
I would still consider dry the better option, just a higher quality dry food. They need the dry food to clean their teeth. My mom worked at a vets office for many years. Most of the dogs that came in for teeth cleanings with very gross teeth were fed mainly wet food. I feed my dog wet food occasionally or I'll mix a tbsp into his dry food every once in awhile, but that's it.
There isnt any different kinda nutritional value whether its dry or wet...dry is less messier than the wet kind. But you can add water to dry food if u have an older dog with barely any teeth.
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