I’ll take “men who don’t want to wear condoms but who also don’t want to be fathers OR held financially responsible for their offspring” for 400, Alex.

Dry food has no moisture in it, and includes lots of garbage filler like ash and other byproducts. Cats are desert creatures who have evolved with little instinct to seek distinct water sources. Most of their hydration would have come from prey liquids like blood. Without it, cats are slowly ticking kidney failure bombs. I have given mine wet food for years, and at 15 they both physically look no older than 4, kidneys in great shape, have been able to skip dentals for 2-3 years because their teeth have been in such good shape. One is getting a dental in 2 weeks because she may have a fissure in a tooth, unrelated to generic tartar build up. Vet broke a bit of tartar off the other with her finger and joked that was his dental for the year.

On the other hand, every other cat I’ve had was raised on dry food only and all were dead by 4-10, except 1. I’ve had many cats. Shame I was a child for most of them and had no control over how we fed them.

Don’t forget hormones. Hormonal gut can cause a sensation of bloating even if no gas comes out, decrease a person’s capacity to eat meaningful portions, and leads to dramatic weigh loss. Labs will be normal.

Source: I got it from August to around April this past year. Went from 166 to 137 before I stabilized (weight loss was sudden and dramatic, 30lbs in less than 3 months.) I felt so bloated that it pushed up into my diaphragm and made me short of breath, and I could only eat small 2-3oz portions of anything, felt starving all the time. All my labs came back completely normal. The problem went away on its own but even now, 8 months later, I haven’t gained any weight. My coworkers joke that I left my ass somewhere cuz it’s just a flat plane now.

Sometimes I feel like most food is basically just edible plastic