What affects us affects cats
A little story where cat and human behavior intersects. Both behaviors say something about the respective animal – felis silvestris catus and homo sapiens. A 20 year old medical student, Bedi, had been assigned to the night shift on the obstetrics ward in a Delhi hospital, the place where pregnant women give birth and …
In the USA you can buy a cat food product called a “premix”. You add it to raw fresh meat or cooked meat, perhaps minced beef, and voilà, you have a a diet that is much closer to a cat’s natural diet than manufactured cat food. It would certainly be a huge advance on …
This page explains what is wrong with a raw, cat food diet, which is growing in popularity. There are many potential benefits for a cat on a raw diet, but this page deals with the problems and detriments. Note: raw meat diets are usually raw meat, bones, some vegetable material and supplements such as …
The American Veterinary Medical Association (AVMA) will be meeting on the first week of August and one of their primary topics may include a vote against feeding raw meat diets. According to this source (www.truthaboutpetfoods.com/articles/very-bad-news-for-raw-feeders.html) the AVMA Council on Public Health and Veterinary Medicine will create a policy to “discourage the feeding to dogs …
Back in the Good Ole Days the cat food market was not what it is today. The market has become very commercialized in line with the profitable nature of the pet market generally. This is due to the inexorable rise in the number of pets kept by people (a testament to the benefits they …
Raw liver – photo reproduced under CC copyright podchef I can remember giving raw chicken kidneys to a wandering pregnant cat. She loved them. I adopted two of her litter. That was 20 years ago. I have since become more knowledgeable on the possible defects of a raw food diet for a cat. I …
