Dear Dr. Kris,
Assuming we have a cat with strong genes who luckily inherited 2 strong and healthy kidneys, what do you think the impact would be -over time- of a daily diet consisting of the following ingredients that were taken from the AAFCO approved label of one of the most popular brands available today?
Ingredients: Brewers rice, soybean meal, corn gluten meal, meat and bone meal, ground yellow corn, beef tallow preserved with mixed-tocopherols (source of Vitamin E), fish meal, turkey by-product meal, phosphoric acid, salt, brewers dried yeast, dried liver digest, added color (Red 40, Blue 2, Yellow 5, Yellow 6 and other color), potassium chloride, choline chloride, tetra sodium pyrophosphate, taurine, DL-Methionine, zinc sulfate, ferrous sulfate, manganese sulfate, calcium carbonate, vitamin supplements (E, A, B-12, D-3), niacin, L-Alanine, calcium pantothenate, copper sulfate, thiamine mononitrate, riboflavin supplement, pyridoxine hydrochloride, folic acid, citric acid, calcium iodate, biotin, menadione sodium bisulfite complex (source of Vitamin K activity), sodium selenite.
Let`s say hypothetically the cat was started on this daily diet at the age of 1 year. Assuming he doesn`t succomb to any other health related issues for the duration - at what age would you expect to see adverse impacts - if any - to the kidneys start to appear? Let`s assume that we follow the feeding directions on the label and provide the designated proper amount of food per the cat`s weight and also make sure he has a clean full dish of drinking water every day as recommended.
Thank you for your time and courtesy.
Assuming we have a cat with strong genes who luckily inherited 2 strong and healthy kidneys, what do you think the impact would be -over time- of a daily diet consisting of the following ingredients that were taken from the AAFCO approved label of one of the most popular brands available today?
Ingredients: Brewers rice, soybean meal, corn gluten meal, meat and bone meal, ground yellow corn, beef tallow preserved with mixed-tocopherols (source of Vitamin E), fish meal, turkey by-product meal, phosphoric acid, salt, brewers dried yeast, dried liver digest, added color (Red 40, Blue 2, Yellow 5, Yellow 6 and other color), potassium chloride, choline chloride, tetra sodium pyrophosphate, taurine, DL-Methionine, zinc sulfate, ferrous sulfate, manganese sulfate, calcium carbonate, vitamin supplements (E, A, B-12, D-3), niacin, L-Alanine, calcium pantothenate, copper sulfate, thiamine mononitrate, riboflavin supplement, pyridoxine hydrochloride, folic acid, citric acid, calcium iodate, biotin, menadione sodium bisulfite complex (source of Vitamin K activity), sodium selenite.
Let`s say hypothetically the cat was started on this daily diet at the age of 1 year. Assuming he doesn`t succomb to any other health related issues for the duration - at what age would you expect to see adverse impacts - if any - to the kidneys start to appear? Let`s assume that we follow the feeding directions on the label and provide the designated proper amount of food per the cat`s weight and also make sure he has a clean full dish of drinking water every day as recommended.
Thank you for your time and courtesy.
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