Oh, and the average lifespan for an indoor/outdoor cat is about seven years. For indoor only cats, this is about fourteen years. But there’s also a long tail to where it is not too unusual to have cats living to twenty years of age, or more.
Obviously, there are some regional and breed-related variations to these nationwide averages. And if you live close to a green belt with lots of wild animals like foxes and coyotes, maybe the average lifespan of an indoor/outdoor cat is significantly reduced.
Dry food is full of oils and other chemicals that can do a real number on porcelain and metal food dishes that are designed to the highest levels of food safety standards, if those bowls aren’t cleaned or changed very frequently.
$DEITY only knows what those kinds of chemicals could do to an object that was 3D printed from materials that were not designed to the highest possible levels of food safety standards.
$DEITY only knows what kinds of toxic chemicals could be leached from the 3D printed materials, or could be created from the combination of the 3D printed materials and the oils and other chemicals in the dry food.
I realize that some people don’t care, and some other people don’t feel like they have a choice. And some people have cats that are finicky eaters and will refuse anything but their favorite dry foods.
But you wouldn’t feed your kids a lifetime diet of McDonalds McBurger and McFries with McShakes for every single meal of their life. Why would you do that to your cat(s)?
Yes, we feed some high quality dry food. Because our cats insist on a certain amount of that. But we also try to focus the feeding on high quality wet food instead. We are not perfect, but we are actively working on getting better.
Plus given it is dry food, I wouldn’t loose too much sleep. I see animal food and water stored in all kinds of dirty, janky contraptions.