Raw Food Diet for Cats - Part 1

It’s the most natural and nutritious diet of all for cats

1) When feeding quality meats, it will eliminate your cat’s exposure to dangerous chemicals,        preservatives and GMO’d ingredients

2) Raw fed (balanced raw diet) cats do not have urinary issues such as crystals, stones, etc

3) No dander! (I’ll explain later)

4) Longevity, teeth, coat, more playful, happier, ocular health, friendliness, less vet bills.

“People refer to cats as obligate carnivores when they are trying to emphasize the fact that cats are a little  different than many other meat-eating predators. Obligate means "by necessity." The dictionary definition is: 

1. Restricted to one particularly characteristic mode of life. 

2. Biologically essential for survival. 

 Combining obligate with carnivore is pretty clear. Cats must eat meat, it is an absolute biological necessity.

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 So, there you have it, the real reason for feeding your cat a raw diet.

Why is Raw better than cooked?

When food is cooked, both vitamins and enzymes are destroyed and the fat and protein molecules can be altered by the heating process making it more difficult for the cat’s system to digest and use them. Also, cats need a balance of calcium and phosphorous and the best way to get this is with raw bones ground into their meat. Without this they can quickly become seriously deficient in several crucially important vitamins, minerals and other nutrients. This is where the word “balanced” comes in. If you were feeding only raw meat (while more nutritious than cooked meat) your cats diet would be lacking in potassium, iron, copper, manganese, zinc, iodine, and vitamins A, D, E, B-12 and choline, essential fatty acids, as well as a lack of phytonutrients, antioxidants. Cooked diets will not be able to provide the bones as you cannot feed cooked bones safely, they can impact the intestines of any pet.

When a cat is fed a raw, well-balanced diet they have no dander! I’ll explain………dry food is just that, dry, uninteresting and absolutely loaded with sodium. This is not the worst of it, they also commonly include ingredients such as:

Whole Grain Wheat, Corn Gluten Meal, Pork Fat, Chicken Meal, Dried Beet Pulp, Brown Rice, Chicken Liver Flavor, Calcium Sulfate, Lactic Acid, Potassium Chloride, Fish Oil, Soybean Oil, Calcium Chloride, Iodized Salt

And this is for an Obligate Carnivore!! Ugg, these labels, these ingredients….What the heck are the veterinarians and manufacturers of such products thinking, are these healthy for any one of our CATS?? 

It’s all marketing hype and we, as a society believe every word we hear, until we don’t. And when we don’t is when we see the poor quality of our cats’ coat or the inability to digest well, the overbearing stench of the litter box, (oh yeah, that is another benefit to a raw fed cat, the litter box barely stinks) urinary tract infections, cardiovascular disease, joint degeneration at middle age, it’s all because of processed “food” that claims to be what your cat will thrive on.

So, when your cat consumes the grains, soy and toxic ingredients from the so-called food, their bodies must eliminate them to try and balance their systems. Dander is toxins, toxins create dander. Eliminating all these crappy filler GMO’d ingredients (that will never provide healthful nutrition to the cat you love) and feeding them a whole, well-balanced raw food diet, will eliminate dander. This is pure love for people that have allergies to cats. I have saved many a cat from being removed from their homes by changing their diets, adding in probiotics and detoxing the toxins out of their bodies. People who love cats that couldn’t have them as pets, now have them as pets, healthfully for both parties.