Yes, a male cat needs wet food in his diet because he has a very thin urethra and if he gets crystals in his urine, it is extremely painful to pass them… humans who have had a kidney stone can relate… but we can’t communicate with our furbabies to tell them what is causing their pain… sometimes they can pass the crystals but sometimes they are too big to pass and the cat just HOWLS in agony… I will never forget that sound… the vet offered to do surgery to split his penis open lengthwise to make the urethra wider, to see if he could pass the crystals, but warned me that the pain from the surgery was horrible too… so I had to say goodbye to a piece of my heart that day… now I gotta go cry awhile… don’t let this happen to you.
PS: also see my note above to Maddawg regarding taurine.
When I was a “wee boy” my friends and I hypothesized that if we ate dog food we would turn into a Dog. Yes, We also also believed that cat food would turn us into a cat.
Needless to say I can tell you in my experience dry cat food is definitely tastier than dog food.
And…
I just asked asked my son who confirmed… Modern Cat food is tastier than Dog food.
I almost forgot… My earlier hypothesis failed…
Good to knowon the Taurine…
Your quote above caused a little involuntary male squirm…(insert your own squirm emoji here)
Yes, and the worst part of it was… even if I had agreed to the surgery… been willing to put him through the pain of having his weinie cut open, it was not a guarantee that he could have passed the crystals… and he still would have been in agony while trying.
It’s 40 years later and I can still hear him cry.
I swore I would never have another boy cat again after him, but as fate would have it, I ended up with another one by accident. I make sure he gets wet food every day.
, it’s a Bengal or a Savannah kitten? 
