Thank you so much for the information. I have already called a pet store near
where I live and they tell me they carry the Wellness canned food and the
Natures Basket. It wouldn't hurt for all of my cats to be on it, they are
getting a little tubby. Watch out, IAMS and 9-Lives stock will likely take a
plunge.
Sue
---- Caroline Kaufmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Hey guys. Below is a message from one of the members of the FIP support
> group I recently joined on behalf of Brumley. I asked her again for her
> referral to the sites devoted to better diet and nutrition for cats. I
> planned to join once things calmed down with Brumley because keeping up with
> the FIP group and the assisted feeding support group got to be too much!
>
> But I did want to pass this onto the new FELV members as something to
> consider for the care of your babies. Diet is unbelievably important and
> there has been nothing short of a revolution as of late regarding what we
> should be feeding our companion animals- and in particular, felines, who are
> all descendants of the big cats in Africa and when we snuggle them and kiss
> their noses, etc., I think we tend to forget that! I am not saying everyone
> has to go the raw food route- altho Monkee did when his anemia from Felv
> kicked in and he loved it! urgh, too little too late...but I know better now
> and I just want other people to maybe benefit from that). So add
> investigating and researching the diet issue onto your to-do list. And keep
> in mind that you don't have to commit to the raw diet-- if you do the
> research, you will find the particular premium canned foods that are as close
> as you can get to the benefits of raw.
>
> I hope this helps!
> caroline
>
> Absolutely. The more cats we get off commercial diets the less death we'll
> see. Cats are carnivores. They eat meat ... fresh meat ... not rotted, old,
> diseased garbage, left over meat from rendering plants. And not grains. They
> can't even digest grains and vegetables.
>
> Here ya go.
> http://pets.groups.yahoo.com/group/WholeCatHealth/
> http://pets.groups.yahoo.com/group/rawcat/
>
> God Bless Cats ... the most beautiful and perfect carnivores on the planet.
> How lucky we are that they like us and they're not the size of dinosaurs.
>
> Happy Tail and Biscuits on the Back,
> Bonnie
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