Canned Cat Food Can Ruin Your Cat's Health

Guidelines and Recipes for Creating Healthy Cats

If you've ever had a really great cat, you'll understand how Ann Myers felt as she watched Scooter's weight drop from 8 to 3 pounds. He was just bones and fur when he stopped eating and drinking. She kept him alive for a week by dripping water into his mouth with a dropper. After he died, she vowed to make sure that her next cat would not suffer from the agony of kidney failure. She documented her findings in an ebook, The Inconvenient Truth about Cat Food. Below are some excerpts.

Cats are Carnivores. They eat Meat.

These stunningly obvious statements are not surprising. But what is surprising is that the pet food industry continues to put wheat and rice in cat food. Some cat food is largely non-meat ingredients. Why would they do this?

Because it is cheap. Pet food makers are focused on making great profits, not great pet food. They make great profits with cheap ingredients and great advertising. They invest the money in advertising, so you'll forget about the important questions, such as: why is there so little meat in the cat food?

With clever commercials on TV and likeable cats stuck in your memory, you'll buy cat food with a smile on your face and a warm feeling in your heart. Ads use descriptions like "organic cat food" and "contains fresh vegetables" to appeal to health-conscious people. You'll likely never hear about the really unpleasant news, like what happens when untested cheap ingredients cause a pet health disaster. For example, in 2007, Menu Foods (who makes most pet food) added melamine to the wheat gluten in pet food to boost the protein level of non-meat ingredients. Unfortunately, the world found out that melamine is poisonous to pets, especially cats, and many thousands died. The cat food recall happened too late for many fine cats.

Meat is the only natural cat food. This may offend some people, but it is a biological fact.

The meat in most canned cat food is cooked.

Cooked meat is great for humans. We don't digest uncooked meat well and we can get sick from eating uncooked meat. However, cats have much more powerful digestive systems than we do. They can thrive on meat that would make us very sick.

Strangely, cats don't get healthy from eating cooked meat. This surprising fact was well documented by Dr. Pottenger's experiments many years ago.

He fed his cats raw milk, cod liver oil and cooked meat (including liver, tripe, brains, sweetbreads and muscle) in an effort to keep them healthy. But he noticed that they did not thrive and kittens born in the laboratory had skeletal as well as organ defects and deformities.

As his supply of cooked meats ran low, he decided to segregate the cats into two groups. The second group was fed raw meat scraps, including viscera, bone and muscle.

Within a few months Dr. Pottenger noticed a distinct difference in the two groups. The group that received the raw diet appeared much healthier and their kittens were more vigorous. The difference in these two groups was so significant that he decided to do a controlled study to determine why the raw fed cats thrived. The results of his study are detailed in his book, Pottengers Cats: A Study in Nutrition, by Francis M. Pottenger, Jr., MD.

Most of us don't realize that cooked meat is not the best food for our cats. But it is much easier to process and package.

Vets often recommend canned food for cats.

Pet lovers often forget that vets run a business. They have invested much time and money and their education and practice. They want a return on their investment.

Selling pet food is a high-profit activity for many veterinary practices. Some vets get one-third of their revenue from selling pet food. Pet food has high profit margins.

Medical practitioners learned centuries ago that there's a lot more profit in treating diseases than in preventing them. (Cat lovers may want to prevent feline kidney failure in their favorite felines, but on a mass scale, a lot of money is made by treating kidney problems.)

Downloadable eBook

The Inconvenient Truth about Cat Food is an eBook by Ann Myers, an editor at GreatPetNet.com. This downloadable eBook offers common sense advice and easy-to-follow instructions on how to feed your cat the healthiest diet possible.

Purchase this eBook and you will learn:

• Why you should never feed your cat dry food.
• What is really in your cat's canned food.
• Why regular dental cleanings are completely unnecessary.
• What healthy food really is and why your vet won't tell you about it.
• How to introduce your cat to healthier food.
• Where to get healthy food (and even healthy treats) that your cat will love.

This eBook can save you many hours in food preparation (and trips to the vet).

The eBook includes a large illustration called the Cat Tree of Nutrition. A picture is worth a thousand words and this full-page illustration shows you how to raise the level of your cats nutrition - each branch higher on the tree is an improvement.

You can download this eBook and start learning immediately. We offer a Money-Back Guarantee that you will be satisfied.

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