in the 70's all the vets were recommending cat food
it is a complete food with the right vitamins and minerals and superior to anything you can feed them yourself they all said in may commercials
so I believed them and fed my cat on cat food as recommended by vets
then my cats developed urinary problems FUS, crystals, and needed expensive treatments and then died a horrible painful death
then the pet food companies started bringing out new improved cat foods that said on the packet that they are good and help with crystals and FUS and a new breed of vets were telling us in commercials how good this cat food is and how it is superior to anything you can feed your cat and it is a complete meal with the right vitamins and minerals
I dont trust them
I lost too many cats the first time round so NOTHING they say will sway me EVER
My mother in law feeds her cats dry cat food and I took one of her cats from her
all her cats died early with FUS and her spending a fortune at the vets
the one I took from her is 19 and does not have FUS. She has deteriorating eyesight and hearing
Some here are trying to tell me that commercially produced cat food is balanced and has the correct vitamins and minerals and guess what - I dont believe it
I heard it all before
and I only lost much loved cats because of believing it
I have fed my cats since 1998 on home prepared food and none of my cats have any crystals in urine or FUS or any other urinary tract problem and I am so very very sorry but I will NEVER EVER trust pet food companies ever again
look at this link - what your vet REALLY knows about pet food
http://gomestic.com/pets/why-is-my-v...this-pet-food/
and giving a different example - take the vaccination debarcle
we were told cats need annual boosters and we were told vaccination site sarcoma is rare. I lost a cat to vaccination site sarcoma so I dont care how rare it is - it killed my cat
now the real truth comes out - vaccination can be done every 3 years - so it was a profit motive all along to make ppl believe it has to be done every year
so the bottom line is - I dont trust anyone who has a profit motive
I do not believe commercially bought cat food has the correct vitamins and minerals and it is definitely devoid of enzymes that real food has. without these enzymes in food your cats liver and kidneys have to work 4 times as hard and give out 4 times as early and then the cats start peeing round the house because of pain in kidneys and liver
I aim to feed my cats what they would most likely find for themselves in the wild but of course within the limitations of what is possible for me. I figure thousands of years of evolution knows better than a few years of research that the pet food companies put in and evolution does not have a profit motive whereas pet food companies do.
I understand some here have full time jobs and cannot feed their cats anything other than cat food and I dont want to convert anyone
this is a personal viewpoint only and you can take it as it is intended - to be just my personal viewpoint and not meant to sway your viewpoint
it is a complete food with the right vitamins and minerals and superior to anything you can feed them yourself they all said in may commercials
so I believed them and fed my cat on cat food as recommended by vets
then my cats developed urinary problems FUS, crystals, and needed expensive treatments and then died a horrible painful death
then the pet food companies started bringing out new improved cat foods that said on the packet that they are good and help with crystals and FUS and a new breed of vets were telling us in commercials how good this cat food is and how it is superior to anything you can feed your cat and it is a complete meal with the right vitamins and minerals
I dont trust them
I lost too many cats the first time round so NOTHING they say will sway me EVER
My mother in law feeds her cats dry cat food and I took one of her cats from her
all her cats died early with FUS and her spending a fortune at the vets
the one I took from her is 19 and does not have FUS. She has deteriorating eyesight and hearing
Some here are trying to tell me that commercially produced cat food is balanced and has the correct vitamins and minerals and guess what - I dont believe it
I heard it all before
and I only lost much loved cats because of believing it
I have fed my cats since 1998 on home prepared food and none of my cats have any crystals in urine or FUS or any other urinary tract problem and I am so very very sorry but I will NEVER EVER trust pet food companies ever again
look at this link - what your vet REALLY knows about pet food
http://gomestic.com/pets/why-is-my-v...this-pet-food/
and giving a different example - take the vaccination debarcle
we were told cats need annual boosters and we were told vaccination site sarcoma is rare. I lost a cat to vaccination site sarcoma so I dont care how rare it is - it killed my cat
now the real truth comes out - vaccination can be done every 3 years - so it was a profit motive all along to make ppl believe it has to be done every year
so the bottom line is - I dont trust anyone who has a profit motive
I do not believe commercially bought cat food has the correct vitamins and minerals and it is definitely devoid of enzymes that real food has. without these enzymes in food your cats liver and kidneys have to work 4 times as hard and give out 4 times as early and then the cats start peeing round the house because of pain in kidneys and liver
I aim to feed my cats what they would most likely find for themselves in the wild but of course within the limitations of what is possible for me. I figure thousands of years of evolution knows better than a few years of research that the pet food companies put in and evolution does not have a profit motive whereas pet food companies do.
I understand some here have full time jobs and cannot feed their cats anything other than cat food and I dont want to convert anyone
this is a personal viewpoint only and you can take it as it is intended - to be just my personal viewpoint and not meant to sway your viewpoint