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Commercial dog and cat food is available in three main forms: canned, dry and semimoist. The classifications used depend more on the processing method and water content than on the ingredient content or nutrient profile. Complete and balanced commercial dog and cat foods are formulated to provide sufficient amounts of each required nutrient without an intolerable excess of nutrients. The supplementation of certain nutrients to complete and balanced commercial dog and cat foods should be done carefully and only with appropriate justification. Dog foods are not satisfactory for cats because most dog foods have a lower protein content, often do not contain assured taurine concentrations and are not designed to produce a urinary pH of <6.5 (which prevents crystallization of struvite or magnesium-ammonium phosphate in the urinary tract of cats). Tierfutter