What are the benefits of wet food?
Wet food for dogs and cats contains a lot of moisture
Wet food contains a lot of moisture, 80% on average. Cats are known for not always drinking enough. Adding wet food to their diet is a practical and tasty way of ensuring that they still get enough fluids.A disadvantage of the large amount of moisture in wet food is that it contains relatively few nutrients and you have to feed proportionally more of it than chunks.
Wet food for dogs and cats is low in carbohydrates
Wet food contains few carbohydrates. Dogs and cats are carnivores and benefit more from meat proteins than carbohydrates. Because wet food contains relatively more meat, it is closer to a natural diet than chunk food.Wet food can be used as an aid to give medication to your dog or cat
Wet food is tastefully received by most dogs and cats. Even difficult eaters can often be seduced with the fragrant soft wet food. Because of this, wet food is often used to give medication. For example, you can hide medication in the form of powder or tablets pulverized) in the wet food and offer it to your animal.Note: not all quadrupeds kick in here ;). Do you want more tips for giving medication? Then click here.
Wet food is packed in different sizes of packaging
For most dogs and cats there is a suitable wet pack available. There are tubs, sachets and cans that hold enough for one meal. But there are also multipacks in the form of bags, boxes and sausages from which you can get multiple meals. Handy if you have more cats or dogs. Always check the pack to see how much your animal needs for its size.Because wet food is heated and packaged airtight during the production process, the formation of bacteria is minimal. As a result, wet food can be kept for a long time without having to be kept cool.
What types of wet food are there?
Wet food can be subdivided into two types: complete wet food and supplementary wet food.Complete wet food is a complete diet that does not require dry food. Everything your dog or cat needs is in here.
Supplementary wet food does not contain sufficient nutrients to be a complete diet, but is given as a supplement to the dry food. Besides the fact that your dog or cat considers it a delicacy, it also ingests more fluids.