Whats the difference between how they make cat food and how they make dog food?

Answer 1

Not enough of a difference in the foods unfortunately, Cats are carnivores (ob;igate meat eaters) and dogs are omnivores. They do add things for cats that dogs don't need and dog food is too hard ona cats stomach.
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Nutrition since there are so many bad things out there is very important to your cat’s health
Contrary to what you may have heard; dry foods are not a great thing to feed a cat.
Please read the label on what you are feeding? What are the ingredients? Do you know what they mean? Is the first ingrdiant a muscle meat like chicken or meal or other things?
http://www.catinfo.org/#Learn_How_To_Read_a_Pet_Food_Ingredient_Label
Dry foods are the number 1 cause of diabetes in cats as well as being a huge contributing factor to kidney disease, obesity, crystals, u.t.i’s and a host of other problems. Food allergies are very common when feeding dry foods. Rashes, scabs behind the tail and on the chin are all symptoms
The problems associated with Dry food is that they are loaded with carbohydrates which many cats (carnivores) cannot process them. Also, Most of the moisture a cat needs is suppose to be in the food but in
Dry, 95% of it is zapped out of dry foods in the processing. Another thing, most use horrible ingredients and don't use a muscle meat as the primary ingredient and use vegetable based protein versus animal. Not good for an animal that has to eat meat to survive.
You want to pick a canned food w/o gravy (gravy=carbs) that uses a muscle meat as the first ingredient and doesn't have corn at least in the first 3 ingredients if at all. Fancy feast is a middle grade food with 9lives, friskies whiskas lower grade canned and wellness and merrick upper grade human quality foods. Also, dry food is not proven to be better for teeth. Does a hard pretzel clean your teeth or do pieces of it get stuck? http://www.felinefuture.com/nutrition/bpo_ch4a.php

Please read about cat nutrition.
http://www.newdestiny.us/nutritionbasics.html
http://www.catinfo.org/feline_obesity.htm
http://maxshouse.com/feline_nutrition.htm#Dry_Food_vs_Canned_Food.__Which_is_reall

Answer 2

Like someone else said, cat food is much higher in protein than dog food. I wouldn't suggest feeding cat food to your dog. It's hard for them to digest and doesn't have the carbohydrates they require. This could cause problems with their organs. By the same token, dog food won't fill the high protein needs of a cat.

Answer 3

Dogs can eat cat food, but cats should not eat dog food.
Different metabolic needs.

Answer 4

Cats require higher protein levels than dogs and the amino acid taurine, which they cannot manufacture on their own. Dogs don't require it.

Answer 5

Ingredients--one is formulated for dog nutrition and one for cat nutrition.