A fifth (20 out of 100 cat owners) don’t realise that their cat is a carnivore so concludes a 2,000 cat owner survey by a cat food manufacturer, Lily’s Kitchen. This lack of basic and essential knowledge on cat nutrition has some startling consequences. Ten percent of British cat owners feed their cats raw …
Champion Pet Food say their ‘trusted’ products are the world’s best yet they are being sued for allowing their products Orijen and Acana to contain levels of arsenic, mercury, lead, cadmium and/or bispenol A (BPA) which risk the health of cats who eat it. It is a class action lawsuit meaning that a number …
A study conducted in Italy tells us that the labelling of meat species in wet and dry pet food is highly unreliable and misleading. It is not just slightly wrong, it is very badly wrong. The study included American pet food as well. In testing 52 dog and cat foods for sale in the …
In an extraordinary breakdown in cat fostering standards, a cat foster family fed their foster cat a vegan diet and he died as a consequence. Someone should be held to account.
Heavy metal levels in pet food is between eight and 670-times higher than in human food and none was within a level considered safe for humans as found in a study. Veterinary Opinion Karen Becker, a veterinarian, says that if pet owners knew what they were putting in their dog and cat’s bowls, they …
There are philosophical and nutritional reasons as to why cats cannot be vegetarian. There is, though, a dry cat food vegetarian product on the market in the UK which undermines the arguments.
A scientific study shows that the levels of phosphorus in commercially prepared cat food (particularly in wet cat food) contains an average five times the amount required to keep cats healthy and because of this it can have a detrimental effect upon kidney function. Cat owners are becoming aware of this. I can tell …
Does cat food contain dead cats? The answer is yes, it does. There was a time when the subject was never discussed. Many years ago I wrote about it but now you can go online and ask the question in the title and you’ll quickly see that dead dogs and cats make pet food. …
