cattraitSimon2.jpgHi there,
I've been feeding my 2 year old Bengal Chopin a gourmet grain free wet food by " Go" in addition to a" help himself whenever" bowl of dry super high protein dry food by Performitrin (' Ultra") . After reading the food analysis on the wet food , apparently it contains 78% water - only 11%protein,8%fat, 1.5 % fibre. Its quite expensive at $2dollars a can (Canadian - ha ha ). I've just been slowly introducing steamed pink salmon into his diet which he loves. I suppose he's missing a little of the dietary supplements and vitamins in the wet food , but there are plenty in his dry food. Will it be okay to eliminate the wet food and replace it with a diet of salmon ( 120-150 gms /day) in combination with the dry food? Thanks in advance for your thoughts and expertise.

Hi Allen,

Welcome to the forum! I'm new 'round these parts myself.

Personally I would be a little concerned making a 50% substitute of cooked meat with no change in increasing supplements, etc. such as taurine. Not sure what your dry kibble consists of but you're now relying on your kibble to provide all of the nutrients that aren't found in the salmon. One of the considerations is taurine. Not a whole lot of information on taurine in canned salmon, but I did find this article. Hope it helps.
http://en.allexperts.com/q/Cat-Food-349 ... salmon.htm

In any diet change, I'd go slow to see how your cat takes to it. And as a side, pretty lucky kittie if he's getting salmon for dinner!

Yea don't do it. Salmon alone isn't nearly a complete food, and you can't just hope that getting 50% (or whatever) less bone meal and taurine and all that is ok. I'm even skeptical about the appropriateness of salmon as a staple when you add in all the appropriate vitamins etc. Raw food feeding is really an "all or nothing" endeavor, in that if you decide that you want to essentially be making your own catfood, you really need to study the subject enough, and be diligent enough, to add in all the appropriate supplements.

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Hmm. Thanks for the replies. Since I initially put forth the query 5-6 days ago , he's eaten mabe a kilo of salmon , he's turned into a Salmon Meister , won't leave me alone in the kitchen , and sort of cat begs for more salmon. I'm not too crazy about the begging part , but he does certainly love it. Its not raw incidentally , I do steam it . I think one solution may be to keep with the old wet food, and mix in some of the salmon.
My main reason for trying the salmon , is the majority of the canned food (78%) being only water. I was just sort of doing the math : if the can is 150 gms, the protein is 11% , then there is only 25 gms of protein in a can / also lists it at 213 calories a can. There is Taurine in both his dry food and the canned: doesn't say how much , but is at the very bottom of the ingredient list, so I assume its a negligible amount.