Standard maintenance dry food
Description
A nutritionally complete dry food formulated to AAFCO or FEDIAF adult maintenance standards, meeting a generally healthy adult cat's full nutritional needs without a specific therapeutic or life-stage focus — the baseline, general-purpose category most healthy adult cats without a particular health condition are fed.
Suitable For
Generally healthy adult cats (roughly 1-7 years old) without a specific medical condition requiring a therapeutic diet.
Cautions
Dry food's low moisture content (typically around 10%) means cats fed dry food exclusively rely entirely on drinking water to meet hydration needs, and cats' naturally low thirst drive means many don't fully compensate through drinking alone — providing multiple water sources, or incorporating some wet food into the diet, is a reasonable general practice worth considering rather than assuming dry food alone adequately addresses hydration.