Hello everyone
I just wanted to know what to do in this situation because I’ve been feeding my cat raw since I got her as a small 3 month old kitten. She’s been thriving on it and she never had a problem with it. I feed her food in chunks so she gets the whole bone munching teeth cleaning, so because of that her teeth are spotless and I was getting so many praises from my vet. My usual vet left the practice and it was my first time seeing this new vet that came in after her. My previous vets never made an issue with the raw diet, they more or less just didn’t even acknowledge it or didn’t care. But this vet told me to stop feeding my cat raw food. Just flat out told me that she would be susceptible to parasites and salmonella and a whole list of problems. If I hadn’t done the research I did before starting my cat on raw that would’ve been so intimidating! Her recommendations afterwards were a whole list of dry foods. I just couldn’t believe a vet would recommend dry food after telling me over and over again that my cats bloodwork was absolutely perfect and that her teeth were beautiful. Im sorry for such a long post I just had to rant for a bit because how can someone as a medical professional see the benefits and still advocate for something that has been proven harmful? I don’t even know what to do in terms of fighting back. I was just so shocked that I just cut the conversation short. I do not want to be disrespectful, they are after all the ones in charge of my cat when she’s at the vet and I don’t want them to potentially give her less than the best treatment because of a potential issue they could have with me. What do I do?
I just wanted to know what to do in this situation because I’ve been feeding my cat raw since I got her as a small 3 month old kitten. She’s been thriving on it and she never had a problem with it. I feed her food in chunks so she gets the whole bone munching teeth cleaning, so because of that her teeth are spotless and I was getting so many praises from my vet. My usual vet left the practice and it was my first time seeing this new vet that came in after her. My previous vets never made an issue with the raw diet, they more or less just didn’t even acknowledge it or didn’t care. But this vet told me to stop feeding my cat raw food. Just flat out told me that she would be susceptible to parasites and salmonella and a whole list of problems. If I hadn’t done the research I did before starting my cat on raw that would’ve been so intimidating! Her recommendations afterwards were a whole list of dry foods. I just couldn’t believe a vet would recommend dry food after telling me over and over again that my cats bloodwork was absolutely perfect and that her teeth were beautiful. Im sorry for such a long post I just had to rant for a bit because how can someone as a medical professional see the benefits and still advocate for something that has been proven harmful? I don’t even know what to do in terms of fighting back. I was just so shocked that I just cut the conversation short. I do not want to be disrespectful, they are after all the ones in charge of my cat when she’s at the vet and I don’t want them to potentially give her less than the best treatment because of a potential issue they could have with me. What do I do?