What affects us affects cats
Taking a dog’s diet, researchers concluded that a dog would be responsible for 828.37 kg of carbon dioxide equivalent per year if consuming a dry diet compared to 6541 kg of carbon dioxide equivalent per year if they consumed a wet diet. There is a stark difference. The scientists highlighted the importance of considering …
Feral cats can physically eat dog food and they no doubt will eat dog food if they are starving but it is not nutritionally adequate for a feral cat and therefore over the long term you would harm a feral cat. I guess people are asking the question in the title because they are …
No! The answer is in the evolution of cats and dogs and the divergence of their “evolutionary paths” some 30 million years ago. Both are scientifically classified within the class Mammalia and within the order Carnivora. The divergence in evolution resulted in dogs becoming members of the Canoidea superfamily and cats becoming members of …
Read this as it is a salutary story about pet food manufacturers and politicians behaving unethically to the point where their inaction kills pets. It is a sorry, sad, tale confirming what some of us know already.
Although this short post is about dog food the principles apply to any companion animal foods. For a long time there has been vociferous complaints from dog owners about Nestlé Purina dog treats making their dogs seriously ill and in some cases the owners allege that the food has killed their dog. Personally, I …
People question whether dogs eating cat food is OK – for the dog! The cat will be a bit miffed having had her food stolen but this article discusses the ins and outs of dogs eating food for cats. Dogs eat pretty much anything including cat feces and/or cat litter – gruesome. The answer …
Cat Eating Dog Food — Photo by mringlein Can cats tell the difference between cat food and dog food but do cats refuse dog food? On the face of it cat and dog food looks and smells similar. It does look a bit different though. What if you ran out of cat food and …
