Re: [NN] healthy diet for a cat?

There is a good cat nutrition and behavior yahoogroups list:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/cats-healthandbehavior/

One of the women on it has two blogs dedicated to cat nutrition, which might
be helpful:

http://felinenutritionalnotes.blogspot.com/
http://petfoodpitfalls.blogspot.com/

Cranberries, avocado, many of the vegetables in premium cat foods these days
are not good for the cat. The ingredient in cranberries that helps humans
fight bladder infections is actually an irritant to the cat's system. So
they've got cranberries in cat food so people will think it helps prevent
inappropriate elimination, and actually it irritates the cat's urinary
system. Learning what ingredients are not desirable and then reading labels
is best, and expensive isn't always better. Some of the cheaper cat foods
have decent ingredients, and some of the high end cat foods are full of
ingredients designed to appeal to the humans who are reading the labels.

We feed our cats Innova EVO/ancestral diet, which isn't perfect but is
better than most. We feed some raw and are moving to a fully raw diet. For
some of the people, even feeding raw or even a frozen mouse isn't good
enough because the blood has pooled. The folks who want to most closely
provide the cat's native diet buy feeder mice and let the cats eat them.
Still there is usually a need to supplement since in the wild the cat would
eat a varied diet.

--
Shannon
www.kirkwoodrentals.com
www.midnightmoondreams.blogspot.com
twitter: moonrisefm

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