thanks
dunno what Max is eating now. What happens when cats get this condition
is, they just quit eating. So, like the other cat, he might be on eye
dropper liquid food at this point.
She has 2 Salukis and one of the suggested foods for them is live
chickens. She's never done that, tho. The cats are strictly indoors, so
they are not hunting.
On 6/17/14 2:34 PM, Mugsy Lunsford wrote:
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.
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