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I'll repeat Dr. Hodgkins statement (the bold is mine),Originally Posted by Ducman69
There are also cats that experienced difficulty switching to a raw diet, either in lack of desire to eat or diarrhea for example, there are threads in this forum on that. There are also cats with IBD, diabetes, vomiting, diarrhea, and urinary issues that have had their diseases vastly improved and completely eradicated by dietary changes in their COMMERCIAL diets. And sometimes it wasn't really dietary at all, as Otto I believe was helped w/ a chronic vomiting problem by just raising the food bowl. Therefor it is a fact to say that a raw diet by no means has a monopoly on benefits nor is immune from complication. A non-commercial diet is more prone to human error for example, where the caretaker may have misjudged a balanced diet or proper preparation techniques (grinding meat and exposing it to air can deplete taurine levels which some people don't know), which as we've seen can result in sudden-death scenarios with few symptoms.
No serious obesity, no diabetes, no urinary tract diseases, no IBD, no nutritional deficiencies in cats fed a properly balanced raw-meat diet. That is a mind-blowing statement that no other diet can make claim to. When cats are fed what nature intended for them to eat, what their obligatorily carnivorous nature requires, they thrive in healthy, amazingly beautiful ways."I have never seen a single case of serious obesity, diabetes, urinary tract disease, or IBD in a cat fed meat instead of commercial dry foods. Many other people have seen the same results. Further, I do not see nutritional deficiencies in cats fed properly balanced raw-meat diets. I want to emphasize a point here. The incidence of these problems has not just declined on a raw-meat diet, they have entirely disappeared. These results are too dramatic to ignore."
And I'll repeat my own observance: in all the research I've done over the years and all the folks I've spoken with who have researched this issue more deeply and for longer than I have - I've never come across a single documented instance of either a cat or it's owner becoming ill from feeding raw food products. Not one.
AC