Picking a high quality cat food (if you’re resourceful enough)
Here’s a list of criteria to select the best cat food based on the performance of the pet food manufacturers.
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Is cereal okay for cats?
Is cereal okay for cats? The answer must be, yes, provided there are no raisons or chocolate and the milk is lactose free! And not much is eaten.
Continue reading →The Chinchilla Persian cat who eats Coco Pops and survives
“He’s just so greedy. He just scrounges for food like a dog, and when I’ve fed him he’s still hungry. He’ll go through the bins like he’s never been fed in his life. He does it all the time.”Bea Picture: … Continue reading →
Homemade cat food recipes fall short of required standard
Research carried out by the respected UC Davis concluded that homemade cat food recipes in the US fall short of the required standard as set by the National Research Council.
Continue reading →How much protein do cats need?
I have two different answers to the question in the title followed by some confusion and I am surprised. From the respected book Wild Cats of the World, I have the information that for a domestic cat to remain healthy … Continue reading →
Is dry cat food equivalent to human junk food?
Is dry cat food equivalent to human junk food? Having spent a little while trying to answer the question I have come to the conclusion that it is not like human junk food, far from it in fact. There is … Continue reading →
Shift Towards Vegan Cat Diet?
Summary: There appears to be an increased number of pet owners who want to feed their companions animals a vegan diet and some are already doing so. There is a response from the pet food manufacturers. More research is needed … Continue reading →
Can Cats Eat Raw Chicken?
Raw chicken, without more, does not represent a balanced raw cat food diet. Raw diets for cats are becoming quite popular notwithstanding that veterinarians advise against them because of the difficulties of storing raw food without bacterial issues including cross … Continue reading →
My cat is overweight. How much weight should she safely lose each week?
An estimated 40% of all cats in the USA are obese. Veterinarians recommend that weight loss programs should be carefully managed because rapid weight loss can lead to hepatic lipidosis. This is also known as feline fatty liver syndrome, one … Continue reading →
Setting a benchmark for the amount of wet cat food a standard cat should eat daily
How do you work out how much wet cat food your cat should eat daily when everything is so confusing? In an act of great wisdom, the experts tell us that the cat obesity epidemic is due to over-feeding your … Continue reading →