Benefits

• Wet cat food provides much-needed water to the cat's diet. A cat might not be as interested in drinking water from a bowl as in eating wet cat food.
  
  

Theories/Speculation

• Cats have a lower tolerance for carbohydrates than humans. A strict diet of only dry food may be too high in carbohydrates. Wet cat food generally contains less carbohydrates than dry food.
  
  

Expert Insight

• According to Dr. Marcus Brown, co-founder of The Capitol Cat Clinic in Arlington, there is no difference in the dental health of cats fed wet food versus those fed dry food.
  
  

Considerations

• Dr. Brown even states that wet cat food is preferable over food and there is no need to feed a cat dry food when wet food is an option.
  
  

Fun Fact

• The compostion of wet food more closely resembles the foods eaten by domestic cats' ancestors.