I have been poking about the Wysong site because I was given some of their products to try (for free) and am also going to try their Call of the Wild supplement. I came away a bit confused - so I emailed them, but that confused me more as the responses sounded very "party line corporate speak" ("We recommend a variety of foods, fresh and canned, dry, all can be supplemented with COTW"). So I emailed back: "So put COTW on everything?" "Yep". ????
I get why you'd add COTW to plain meat, or to a limited ingredient canned food like their Au Jus line. In that case, the COTW supplement seems necessary. From what I can tell, having had an email exchange with Wysong, COTW can be put on EVERYTHING, and they tell you to do so, even on canned food that clearly has already been supplemented!
I have here a can of their Beef Stew in Gravy - which appears to my eyes to be supplemented and nearly complete as it is - there is beef liver, tricalcium phosphate (calcium source I presume)....but no taurine - but zinc, copper, B vitamins etc....and you are supposed to add MORE supplements via COTW - duplicating some things such as liver (COTW has chicken liver), kelp, THREE more sources of calcium on top of what is already in the canned food? Why are beef liver AND chicken liver necessary?
So why leave out taurine if you are already adding in supplements...forcing one to buy a separate item?
Why duplicate supplements?
And, finally, does the concept of "over supplementing" ever get raised? In the case of water soluble vitamins/nutrients, the cat will simply pee excess stuff out. No harm no foul but wasteful, I think. Why waste - this can get pricy enough without supplements ending up in the litterbox?
And then there are the fat soluble ones that stay in the system - no concern there (vitamins A, D, E)?
Comments? Enlighten me! Because I can't get a straight answer from THEM other than "yes, add COTW to everything you feed your cat".
I get why you'd add COTW to plain meat, or to a limited ingredient canned food like their Au Jus line. In that case, the COTW supplement seems necessary. From what I can tell, having had an email exchange with Wysong, COTW can be put on EVERYTHING, and they tell you to do so, even on canned food that clearly has already been supplemented!
I have here a can of their Beef Stew in Gravy - which appears to my eyes to be supplemented and nearly complete as it is - there is beef liver, tricalcium phosphate (calcium source I presume)....but no taurine - but zinc, copper, B vitamins etc....and you are supposed to add MORE supplements via COTW - duplicating some things such as liver (COTW has chicken liver), kelp, THREE more sources of calcium on top of what is already in the canned food? Why are beef liver AND chicken liver necessary?
So why leave out taurine if you are already adding in supplements...forcing one to buy a separate item?
Why duplicate supplements?
And, finally, does the concept of "over supplementing" ever get raised? In the case of water soluble vitamins/nutrients, the cat will simply pee excess stuff out. No harm no foul but wasteful, I think. Why waste - this can get pricy enough without supplements ending up in the litterbox?
And then there are the fat soluble ones that stay in the system - no concern there (vitamins A, D, E)?
Comments? Enlighten me! Because I can't get a straight answer from THEM other than "yes, add COTW to everything you feed your cat".