A Michael Broad Blog
This is a short note that reminds us that dry cat and dog food has the ability to be toxic to both cat or dog AND their caregiver at the same time. The most recent example, reported currently online, concerns an American product. Carolina Prime Pet, Inc, announced on Friday it is recalling 400 …
The infographic which is a ‘speed read’ explains 😉. The logic of feeding domestic cats a moisture-rich diet is inescapable. This may surprise many cat owners as dry cat foods are everywhere on the shelves of veterinary clinics and at supermarkets. These are convenience foods which are very popular both for human and cat …
This is a video on YouTube by a human doctor talking about the domestic cat diet, specifically, dry cat food and a raw meat diet. He comments about these aspects of the feline diet and decides that dry cat food is “unintentional cat abuse”. He also decides that allowing raw chopped beef to thaw …
This is a very technical article. It is all about chemistry. It is basically a chemistry lesson. Ninety-nine percent of the population will stop at this point and move on. 😎 But this is very relevant to dry cat food as it is so artificial. It’s sort of like pieces of flavourless protein blocks …
Just prepared this infographic about domestic cats getting vitamin D from sunlight – or not! There is a lot of misinformation (I believe) on the internet on this topic from websites which has fed through to the AI chatbots which ‘scrape’ the internet for information. If the websites are incorrect, the AI chatbots are …
I know a lot of people dislike pigeons. I don’t and I don’t see why we should dislike them. Perhaps it is because they are good survivors. Quite pushy. They can become annoying and lack ‘etiquette’ for want of a better word. They don’t like queuing for food, put it that way. But then …
Dry cat foods can be addictive to domestic cats. The manufacturers are very clever in that way. They know how to make this very artificial food highly palatable by spraying it with a nice smelling fatty solution (see below). The core material is entirely tasteless; like cardboard. Cats like fatty foods which by the …
My advice: if you are an older person, visit Amazon and buy a tub of taurine pills (about £8) 😉😻 . This advice is based on a study which seems to have a clear, clean conclusion: when you are older you need a taurine supplement as the body no longer creates it and it …
