Feeding time.

every few days is not often enough, and the dog needs exercise. as dawn said why get an animal if you aren't willing to look after it. as for wet versus dry food i don't think it matters as long as the food is decent quality. i don't have a cat just now, in the past my cat got dried food and hated wet. he was fine. most people i know with cats give both.

Well Gissi will not entertain dry Food at all and he will only eat one particular Can Food and that is winalot Chicken in Jelly, if I try to give him other he will not have it Gissi gets fed in the Morning and then in the evening when we come back from the Field He gets his Chewies in the Morning which are for his Teeth and bones My previous Dog could not eat wet food no matter what brand we bought it did not agree with him, but I used to put Gravy over his dried food Gissi goes to the Field in the Morning and at Night as he is only a little Dog that is enough for him

feed our puppy dry food 3 times a day not tied up and runs and bounces all the time or digging up the yard! Has every thing she needs

If you buy a good grade of dry food, you can feed them only dry. I feed a pretty high grade food and my cats (well except for the sick ones) all have loads of energy and lovely coats. Now, not feeding your pet every day? That's just wrong! My dogs eat dry, but there's lots of it every day for them.

I am a proud owner of 4 dogs and 2 cats. They primarily eat dry food. It is a nutritionally balanced food. All of my fur babies are happy and healthy. I have found that with all of them, if I give them wet food as more than an occasional treat it seems to upset their digestive systems and they end up with diarrhea. Therefore, they only occasionally get wet food. I also have 4 children. My pets get regular exercise and run around with each other and the kids quite a bit. My pets are fed dry food 3 times a day and get treats and snacks in between. They all seem to do fine with this approach and have never had any problems. The people that are tying their dogs up and only feeding them every 3 days do not deserve to have animals at all. They are cruel and are unworthy of the love and companionship that animals can provide. At a bare minimum, and even this is wrong in my mind, animals need to be fed once a day. They also need regular exercise and need to be a part of a family.

I think the dry cat foods are nutritionally complete. But with a dry food diet you really have to make sure your cat gets a lot of fresh water. I switched over to wet food and feed my two cats in the morning and in the evening. I'll also give them some dry treats like Greenies which both my cats are crazy for. As far as exercise they both chase each other around in the morning and at night which is pretty good exercise.

When I had my dog, I feed her both, the wet with some dry added. My cat I give him dry in the morning and afternoon and wet for evening usually..

My three dogs get a small homemade "liver brownie" and a dog biscuit for breakfast, their main meal at 5pm of dried food with home cooked chicken and the dry food moistened with the broth from the chicken. Before bedtime another small piece of the liver brownie and their very favorite - a piece of homemade chicken jerky. I have three very happy and healthy little dogs.

If you KNOW people who only feed their pets every few days, PLEASE tell them to fix this. I have encouraged many people to give their cat/pets wet food also, and also the natural brands, instead of classic ones like Friskies and Alpo. We give dry food in the morning for our beloved cats. Then for lunch wet, dinner wet. Our cats are very picky and seem to like dry food more often (unlike in the past with our cats). But they eat when WE eat.

I have 3 cats. My Kat family has dry food ina automatic feeder all the time. They have automatic water too. I refill with fresh water everyother day. I also give them wet food. I give each one a spoonful 2 times a day. It doesnt sound like a spoonful is enough but thats about what they eat at 1 time. If i give Sissy too much she throws up.sometimes they doent eat it all right away. so i figure it must be enough.

When I had my cats I would give them like you, dry and wet but now I don't have any cats of my own but three stray cats come everyday and spend all day in my garden and I can't afford to feed them like I use to feed mine so I have started to feed them only dry food it's cheaper, course they don't like it, like wet food but it's the best I can do right now!! with my budget, this crisis even got to the poor cats!!

We give our two kittens raw meat, no dry food. We were feeding our dog the same way but just this week we have switched to giving her Vegan food. We have friends whose dogs are thriving on this diet so we are trialling it. She does have her bones though still and sneaks some of the cats meat every now and then too! The kittens get plenty of exercise running around the house playing with each other, but our dog gets walked down by the river where she also has a swim. This used to be daily, but more recently has only been a couple of times a week.

Our one dog is on a very expensive dry dog food. He has Irritable Bowl Syndrome, which I had never even heard of in dogs before our Vet diagnosed him. The Vet thinks it is from stress and trauma, since we rescued him after he had been seriously abused as a puppy. He needs the special dog food, because it gives him the least problems and is easiest for him to digest. One of our kitties that was rescued also had to be on a special diet, and that was dry cat food. Now, he can pretty much eat whatever (except fish or anything with fish oil) in small quantities, but he if he eats too much then he will be sick, so we try to keep him mostly on the special dry food. The rest of the animals eat whatever without a problem.

My cat gets fed twice a day with tinned food but if he has wolfed it extra fast he gets a small handful of dry food. When he was younger he only ever got dry food and he would only drink from puddles. About 2 years ago ,his coat started to get really flaky bits and he was not as shiny anymore and we found that by changing to tinned food and only a little bit of dry it was much improved. Ours is an outdoor cat and I think he was supplementing his dry food with mice and birds in his youth but now cant manage to catch much.

My cats staple diet is dry food but she gets a mix of wet and dry about every other evening. She doesn't eat much and I don't have time to mix up several batches so it's a mix. Also, I have hermit crabs..odd pet I know but they get a mix of dehydrated food and fresh food several times a week. They need fresh foods as well because they are scavengers and get all sorts of things from the wild. So they get it a few times a week with their dry staple diet.

my cats have dry food 24/7-it's always out for them,and it's supplimented with wet food..everyday for the younger,every other day for the older.they also often get a little plate of what we're eating,and the occasional egg for coat. i make a point of getting them to play at least for a little while every day. my foster cat is huge(she arrived that way),but i try to get her to join in play with the others.she's a bit of a challenge..old and cranky and set in her ways.

As for not exercising them, if you can't take care of a pet, don't get a pet. As for food, well I don't really know whether a diet of dry food only is enough. My cats get dry food 7 days a week and wet food every couple of days. All three are healthy. The kids exercise the cats, btw, not just playing with them with toys, but also they chase each other around the house.

I have 4 dogs and 14 cats all of which eat primarily dry food. I used to feed (to my first two dogs) canned with their dry -until it got too expensive. The dogs get canned as a treat periodically they sometimes get very small amounts of scraps and their usual treats. All are happy and healthy. They have their bowls filled 2 times a day.. basically if they are empty I will fill them -they don't tend to over eat. The same with my cats they have a self feeder which holds about 5 pounds of food and I have a large bowl that I will put some food in or I use it when I am giving them extras, like the "juice" I pour over their dry food from cans of tuna or turkey or chicken I open up. They don't get canned food as a rule but I give them one periodically and if anyone needs to take meds or is off their feed and has lost weight I will give them canned food more often for a while. Even with the food available 24/7 I have NO fat cats. I would NEVER Dream of making my dogs "Go Hungry" for days - heck I feel guilty If I put the last of their food in their bowl and I know I wont be able to get to the store until morning. I think Dry dog and cat food is made nutritionally complete.. some better than others for sure. I found that the animals stools tend to be better (harder and less smelly) when they don't get canned all the time. Also, My dogs are never tied. they have free roam of the house and they love to run and wrestle with each other in the yard when they go out. I think keeping a dog chained 24/7 is cruel and those people should not even have a dog. What's the purpose?

My dogs only get dry food on a regular basis. The vet said that we can give them an egg once a week, and fish oil tablets daily. Their coats are all shiny and they are healthy. Their favorite "treats" are chunks of potato, so they get that occasionally. One of the dogs has pretty severe food allergies, so we have to be careful what he gets. The wet food always makes him sick, so we just do without it. The 3 of them play together regularly. I walk them every day and about once a week we take them to the dog park. They are pretty active and none of them are over weight.

We typically stick to giving both our cats and our dogs dry food most of the time because that is what our vet recommended for us to feed them. If they wanted them to have wet food then I tend to think that they would have recommended wet food as well. With our dogs, we take them on regular walks and we exercise the cats by playing with them with toys. I kind of wish that we could walk the cats as well, but they don't walk on leashes.