14-11-2008, 11:40 PM
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Re: Eating the 'wrong' food
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I used to feed dried food to my cats on a regular basis - i.e. I had a bowl of dry left out all the time and kept topped up
Over the past 2 years or so I'd been reading quite a bit on various groups/websites, saying that dried food was really a bad choice due to its high grain/carbohydrate content. Cats are carnivores and they need virtually zero carbohydrate in their diet - they need high quality meat-based protein only. I began to feel a bit concerned that I was feeding my cats the wrong food, but I didn't do anything about it. Then in August of this year I read a book that really opened my eyes to the risks of dried food "Your Cat - Simple New Secrets to a Longer Stronger Life" by Elizabeth Hodgkins DVM (a feline specialist vet and very successful Ocicat breeder in the US). Reading that scared me enough to immediately stop offering any dried food to my cats other than as an occasional treat, and I made sure I only used high meat/no grain content food (of which there are very few - certainly not whiskas, RC, Hills, JWB, Burns etc)
I'd recommend anyone with cats to read this book - it is very well written. It's available from amazon.co.uk and is now in a paperback edition I think.
All About Cats Health and Wellness Center - Your Cat
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Thanks for that Naomi, i'm sure it will be of interest to quite a few on here
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