I'm an advocate for feeding cats raw meat, because they are obligate carnivores, and require a full complement of amino acids from meat every day. I've been trying to struggle through a vet school text book written and published by Royal Canin, and have found much erroneous information there. It puts a strain on cats bodies to force them to glean nutrition from plant sources, yet Royal Canin uses beet pulp as a protein source in quite a few of their foods. In the old days, pet foods used actual meat and bone. Now they use heavily processed meat byproducts and grains, feathers & peanut shells instead of bones. Cats used to be allowed to hunt, and usually subsisted primarily on what they caught, with prepared food a smaller percentage of their daily intake. Cats are remarkably capable of self-healing, given appropriate food and water & a safe place to rest. The basics of cat digestion require their food to be wet; they are desert animals and do not naturally seek out water, expecting to glean most of their daily moisture requirements from their food. Prey animals are usually 78% and higher in moisture. Additionally, since the fats in commercial pet food are also heavily processed from rancid sources, they do not digest well at all.
If she's interested in testing this, she could feed chicken gizzards, livers, and drumsticks or thighs for a week - ideally ground up, but it's difficult to get meat ground with the bones in. My cats eat thighs and drumsticks whole. On Jun 17, 2014, at 10:55 AM, M Christol wrote: > My sister has/had 4 cats, 2 male, 2 female. She was feeding them Royal Canin > SO (there's male & female versions) to prevent urinary infections but the > males have both developed pancreatitis. One died. They were not related. > I have poked around online & it seems both the Royal & Hill's stuff works > well for urinary issues but both have been blamed for pancreatitis. > Some people have recommended raw diets, venison... > I guess both those brands have a fairly high fat content. > I dunno, I just fed my cats the usual grocery store stuff & never had > problems. The first cat my family had ate Hill's horse meat & he was fine til > he got hit by a car at 14. > Anybody heard of this issue? Any ideas? > Treatment seems fairly lame & just prolongs the inevitable. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "StrataList-OT" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/stratalist-ot. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "StrataList-OT" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/stratalist-ot. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
