Cats & Cat Health

What do you feed your cat? With all the publiciy about poisons in chinese cat foods lately I guess we are all avoiding the Chinese fakeaways now.

But its not only China that is careless of our cat’s health. Did you know that many vetinarians are saying that we shouldn’t be feeding dried kibble to our cats? Its too dry and they don’t make up for it with drinking enough water- cats need wet food. Also dry food has various other problems - or so I have recently learned:

1. They contain insufficient animal based protein and an excess of vegetable protein.

2. Many contain animal by-products as their main or only source of protein. By-products are animal parts considered unfit for human beings to eat, such as feet, intestines, feathers, egg shells and can even include organs from diseased livestock.

3. They contain too much carbohydrate. Cats are pure carnivores that neither need, nor can they thrive, on the amount of carbohydrates in dry foods.

4. Cats do not always drink enough to make up for the lack of water in the food. Insufficient fluid causes kidney and bladder stones.

5. Many use unhealthy preservatives such as such as BHA, BHT and ethoxyquin.

6. They can lose nutrient value due to their long cooking time at very high temperatures.

7. Oils in them can become rancid after being stored in warehouses and supermarket shelves.

8. There may also be extremely dangerous and life-threatening fungal toxins found in them.

Sounds nasty doesn’t it? Do you want to risk it? I don’t and am now in the process of weaning my cat off it. Its not going to be easy and he is rather grunpy with me today. I am mixing a bit in with his new food- more on that next time- but I think he knows what I am up to!

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