Posted on 06/13/2011 9:28:13 AM PDT by decimon
Felitive humidity ping.
I don’t think I’d email anyone at effem.com
I knew it was the Dove bars that my cat was eating....
Oh joy. This study will increase the price of cat food. I have an idea. Leave the food alone and let me add water to the dry food.
Get rid of the dry food and the cat will lose weight and be more healthy...
Wasn’t there a study done several years ago that concluded cats are not affected by obesity like humans?
We have four cats and they all eat the same dry food and are about equally active. Three are fine when it comes to weight; Fiona, however, is enormous. As with people, it’s doubtful that any one factor is to blame across the board.
You need to water your cat, Madam. ;-)
Maybe not like humans but the term "fat cat" has been around for quite a while.
Raw diet. Best thing I ever did for my dogs and cats.
Cindie
My cat has a raw diet, all the mousies and birdies she can catch.
I think most commercial cat food sucks. Even the best contains ingredients that many cats become allergic to over time.
This happened to my boy cat and he rapidly lost weight and had chronic diarrhea due to food allergies. My girl cat was overweight and slept all the time.
After researching, I developed my own cat food recipe, as so many others have done before. Cats need about a 40/60 calcium to phosphor ratio, which is determined by the amount of ground bone vs. the amount of ground muscle meat in their diet. They also have a very high need for taurine, which is obtained from animal hearts. Calories should come mostly from protein, with some coming from fat, and none from carbohydrates.
After feeding my cats the following food for several weeks, my boy cat gained weight, my girl cat lost weight, both quit shedding so much, their coats became shiny and sleek, and they both became very energetic.
My Cat Food Recipe
12/10/2010
Ingredients
34 lbs chicken thighs (skin, bone and all)
8 lbs chicken hearts
4 lbs chicken liver
16 cups purified (R.O.) water
84 gms salmon OR fish oil (42 x 2 gm capsules)
16 x 400 IU Vitamin E (Jarrow E-400 “dry E” works well)
16 gm Taurine (16 x 1 gm capsules)
1600 mg Vitamin B complex (4 Jarrow B-Right capsules)
4 TB Lite salt (50/50 sodium/potassium chloride with iodine)
3/4 cup Psyllium husk powder
32 capsules raw glandular supplement (Nutricology ImmoPlex Glandular)
8 Trace Mineral capsules (Thorne Trace Minerals)
Note that this recipe is based on recipes by Lisa A. Pierson, DVM, Anne at catnutrition.org, and tcfeline.com. The amount of trace minerals was calculated based on a total weight of 864 ounces for this recipe, and assuming an average cat eats about 5 ounces a day, and that an average cat’s trace mineral needs are 1/20th the needs of a human based on average weight ratio of the two. As it turns out, this is completely consistent with the amounts of the other supplements specified in the source recipes. I’ve also doubled the Salmon oil from those recipes and also left out the egg as I believe that egg can be an allergen for many cats and its not something that they eat that much of in the wild.
I have been unable to find a bulk Psyllium husk powder free from artificial flavors and sweeteners, so I use Swanson’s capsules. I process these and all the other capsules by chopping them up in one of those little “whirlybird” coffee grinders and then separating the capsule contents from the capsule fragments by shaking everything in one of those screen-type kitchen strainers that have a handle. This takes just a few minutes to do for a heck of a lot of capsules.
I put the Salmon oil capsules in a small ramekin, cover them with water and heat in a microwave 30 seconds or so. The gelatin capsules melt/dissolve and sink to the bottom while the Salmon oil floats to the top. After cooling, I put this in the freezer and the Salmon oil solidifies and can then be scraped off the top. This is a quick and non-messy process as well.
I actually have a custom butcher make this for me. After double-grinding (first coarse and then as fine as he can) and then mixing, he uses a sausage stuffer to fill and tie 1-2 pound plastic sausage tubes. I get him to freeze everything too before I pick it up so as not to over-tax my home freezer.
Preparation for feeding consists of slitting and removing the plastic wrapper and thawing in a microwave on a defrost cycle. I then partially cook the food and add even more water (about a cup per 2 pounds) and let this water soak into the food. After cooling, I refrigerate and serve small meals throughout the day, sometimes reheating the meals in the microwave. One package lasts about 1.5 days for two cats.
I’ve tried that, but after the cats scarf down the fresh mix, they reject the mushy leftovers. Wasted a lot of good dry food in that experiment.
*chuckle* I like that one.
Yeah, kitteh needs to drink more water.
Too funny! It reminds me of the fainting goats!
The “new” and “improved” version of the “food pyramid”. :)=^..^=
Me too Slings and Arrows!
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