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To: Slings and Arrows
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Sweet kitteh and puppy.

Hope their food has Taurine so kitteh won't lose her eyesight.

Taurine is an amino acid essential to a cat's diet. Sufficient amounts of taurine usually exist in commercial cat foods (both dry and wet), but cats are at risk of a taurine deficiency if fed homemade foods or a vegetarian diet. Taurine deficiency in felines can cause central retinal degeneration, leading to irreversible blindness, as well as heart failure.

http://www.ehow.com/how_5595392_add-taurine-feline-diet.html#ixzz29IU9wkVH

42 posted on 10/14/2012 11:11:50 AM PDT by LucyT
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I’m sure it does.

Apropos of nothing in particular, I think the article underestimated the kitten’s age. At 4 weeks a kitten still has that drowned-rat look.* I’d peg her at 6 weeks myself.

[*OK, OK - an *adorable* drowned rat.]


43 posted on 10/14/2012 11:20:12 AM PDT by Slings and Arrows (You can't have IngSoc without an Emmanuel Goldstein.)
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