What is a Healthy Cat Food?
If you care about your cat, you'll want to feed her a healthy cat food.
But with all the choice available in your supermarket, you may be forgiven for being confused.
All the brands clamour for your attention and your dollar.
Then you search on the internet and there are even more differing and confusing views.
How do you make any sense of all this? Let's look at where cats came from.
Cats have evolved over millions of years on a diet of their successful kills.
Those cats who couldn't hunt successfully, died out.
Cats rely solely on their hunting skills.
They don't have a supportive pack.
Cats instincts, digestive system, renal system and whole body work best when they eat such a diet.
Humans, with their perpetual marketing interest, have only recently come into this area of the market.
This means two things - they are still learning, and cats haven't adapted to this diet.
An enormous part of the profit in commercial cat food goes into advertising, trying to convince you their food is best.
A tiny fraction is actually used to provide quality and nutritious food.
There have always been, and will always be, recalls in pet food.
Some cats die from the problem.
Do you want your cat to be one of the reasons a cat food is recalled, or would you prefer to be in control of what your cat eats? Once you have made the decision that this is a no-brainer, then you quickly move on to the question of what is the best cat food.
This is much less complicated than the brands of commercial cat food, or veterinarians would have you believe.
However, there are important aspects about a cat's healthy diet that you do need to know.
And you can run into what appears to be problems early on in the conversion.
This means, having a mentor can be invaluable.
But with all the choice available in your supermarket, you may be forgiven for being confused.
All the brands clamour for your attention and your dollar.
Then you search on the internet and there are even more differing and confusing views.
How do you make any sense of all this? Let's look at where cats came from.
Cats have evolved over millions of years on a diet of their successful kills.
Those cats who couldn't hunt successfully, died out.
Cats rely solely on their hunting skills.
They don't have a supportive pack.
Cats instincts, digestive system, renal system and whole body work best when they eat such a diet.
Humans, with their perpetual marketing interest, have only recently come into this area of the market.
This means two things - they are still learning, and cats haven't adapted to this diet.
An enormous part of the profit in commercial cat food goes into advertising, trying to convince you their food is best.
A tiny fraction is actually used to provide quality and nutritious food.
There have always been, and will always be, recalls in pet food.
Some cats die from the problem.
Do you want your cat to be one of the reasons a cat food is recalled, or would you prefer to be in control of what your cat eats? Once you have made the decision that this is a no-brainer, then you quickly move on to the question of what is the best cat food.
This is much less complicated than the brands of commercial cat food, or veterinarians would have you believe.
However, there are important aspects about a cat's healthy diet that you do need to know.
And you can run into what appears to be problems early on in the conversion.
This means, having a mentor can be invaluable.
