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>>306386 secret: wet food doesn't stick to their teeth any more than dry, and perhaps less so. Think about it this way:
Eat a handful of potato chips. Feel the bits and pieces stuck at the gumline and in the nooks and crannies in the molars and between teeth? This is analogous to dry food.
Now, eat some applesauce, or more appropriately pate. Significantly less stuck to and around your teeth, huh? That's the equivalent of wet food.
The theory of wet food rotting teeth is a complete and total myth based on poor studies and perpetuated for decades by illogic and the pet food industry.
Also, although cats ARE obligate carnivores and do best with a high protein, low carb diet, it's a fallacy to state that the length of their digestive tracts prohibit the digestion of carbs. That is a new myth of the pet food industry, created to get you to spend more money on grain-free diets. Cats can do just fine with grains, even whole grains, as long as they are in a proper proportion to other nutrient levels... unlike the vast majority of carb-rich foods out there. In fact, it's better to use whole grains than grain fragments (meal, flour, germ, etc) as the whole grain provides whole nutrition, including the full spectrum of carbs from simple to starch to dietary fiber, as well as all the vitamins, minerals, and other nutrients found in whole grains.
Having said all that, corn, wheat, and other grains should be avoided, and you are completely correct about avoiding soy.
-11 years specialty in nutrition and natural/alternative medicine
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