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Saikou · #15 (**permalink**) 16-11-2008, 02:47 PM

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Originally Posted by Biawhiska

to me dry food is most convient to the owner.

It's nice and convenient for the vets too who get commission for the brand they push.

Giving anything veterinary "approval" makes it appear better than it is. I am sure if there were studies that showed just what long term affects a purely dry diet has on a cat, then no vet would be pushing it. However, its a lucrative partnership for manufacturer and vet.

I am not suggesting this is really done (completely unethical and cruel) but it would be interesting though if you cloned a cat so you know it had exactly the same genetic make up, so you had the original and 2 copies. Keep them all in the same environment. Feed one solely dry, one soley wet and one as natural raw diet as possible and see what happens to those cats over time. I think the results would be quite shocking.

I would also be interested if they did studies on the effects of a cats health and longevity of over vaccination and the other chemicals routinely placed on or put into them.

You regularly hear of cats being given an overdose of wormers, drontal seems to be a common one. The cats behave as if drunk for a while then return to normal. No problem says the vet who administered it, the cat doesn't die, but what long term affect has that had on the cat ?