Lady can't eat raw because of her diabetes and weakened immune system so I feed her Natures Variety Prairie kibble. She's been eating it for about a year and a half and I haven't noticed any problem with her drinking too much water.
Maybe it's the brand of high protein food? I've heard the same complaint about Innova's Evo.
FYI, Lady's specialist said exactly what MyFairLacy said about high protein diets being more natural. He said that diabetes in pets was practically unheard of years ago before commercial kibble hit the market, but it's almost an epidemic in pets today. He explained that dogs and cats are carnivores and aren't able to process carbohydrates the way humans are. Carbohydrates are converted to sugar and dogs can't metabolize them properly. He said they are are seeing cases of diabetes being caused solely by diets of commercial kibble in dogs and especially cats. He did say that Prairie was "excellent" and one of the few commercial dog foods he would recommend.
The bottomline is really that meat is much more expensive than rice, potato, etc. which is why the companies who make commercial dog food would much rather load their food up with that than produce a high protein kibble. The cheaper dog foods are a perfect example as they are full of corn. |