Fish is Bad For Cats

Just been reading an interesting article about feeding cats fish. Seems the story about fish being a cat's delight are ill informed. The cat nutrition site lists 8 reasons why fish are bad for your cat. These are the reasons given:

• Destroys Thiamin , which is a B vitamin
• Calcium levels are too low
• Can cause urinary tract problems
• Cats adore it and get addicted
• Heavy metals in fish
• Linked to hyperthyroidism
• Can cause vitamin E depletion leading to a painful disease called steatitis
• Fish can cause allergies

Strange that cats love the stuff when it is so harmful to them. Also what about those Egyptian ( I think) fishing cats that dive and swim to catch fish. Are they getting sick? To read the details go to the cat nutrition site.

Talking of cat food, I am on my second month of feeding my cat Alfie a raw food diet. Well I have always added raw to his diet bu this was supplmented by kibbled Nutra cat food. That way I didn't worry about him missing some vital component of his diet. But since a couple of months ago I have been doing the complete raw diet.

It is a big responsibility It is going well. I use chicken with bones minced finely, add some venison or wild rabbit which the pet butcher sells minced and add some hearts and liver and some egg yolks and vitamin and mineral supplements. I make changes to the muscle meat component depending on what the butcher has. I make up 2 weeks supply, divide into 6oz portions and freeze it.

He is very healthy on it and his coat is even more shiny and beautiful than it was before, plus he loves it. It is so little trouble that I can't even say I am slaving away like a neurotic old cat lover!

(First posted a year ago- this regimen is still going well. I do give him the kibbles too but he only eats them if we are out and there is nothing else to eat.)