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Roly-poly pets: Overweight animals at risk for diseases, death
sighthounds & siberians wrote:
On Thu, 17 Sep 2009 13:34:44 -0400, Char wrote: Stop starving your cat! Stop being an alarmist and posting inaccurate crap! "No pessimist ever discovered the secret of the stars, or sailed to an uncharted land, or opened a new doorway for the human spirit." Helen Keller |
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Roly-poly pets: Overweight animals at risk for diseases, death
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"cybercat" wrote: "sighthounds & siberians" wrote in message ... On Thu, 17 Sep 2009 13:34:44 -0400, Char wrote: As long as you feed her kibble she will be a fat cat. Kibble is primarily grains that you are feeding to a carnivore. Kibble causes obesity, diabetes, and worse. There is absolutely no evidence that kibble causes obesity, or diabetes, or worse, and it is incredibly irresponsible that Char posts such misinformation. On the contrary, there is lots of evidence, in the way of fat cats freefeeding on "diet" dry cat food. Feeding your cats that carb laden crap dehydrates them and fills them up with starch they do not need. If you free feed, they keep eating because they cannot get what really satisfies them--MEAT--so they fill up on starch instead. Terrible stuff. You feed "kibble" because you are cheap and lazy. I feed quality canned food every 12 hours because I care about my cats more than I care about my convenience. Gawd! Your house and catbox must smell terrible! Cats on that kind of diet leave the most horrible smells. Cut out the carbs and feed protein and all will be well. Look into feeding a raw diet which is species appropriate for cats and dogs as well. Don't look into feeding a cat a raw diet unless you are prepared to do a lot of research, or else follow a diet that has been researched and recommended by a nutritionist. Just throwing raw meat at your cat will not provide him/her with a balanced diet. The advice to see a vet usually ends up with the pet being put on a diet of high fiber kibble so the real culprit isn't addressed. Well, although I respect my vets, I wouldn't consult them for advice on weight loss or nutrition for my animals. It's not rocket science to figure out that feeding smaller quantities and increasing exercise will result in weight loss, just as it does in people. A special diet is not required. I've seen countless cats with kidney problems, diabetes, obesity, etc turn their health around merely by switching to a raw diet. I've seen countless cats live long, healthy lives when fed a high quality kibble. In fact, the youngest I've lost a cat is age 13. Stop starving your cat! Stop being an alarmist and posting inaccurate crap! |
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Roly-poly pets: Overweight animals at risk for diseases, death
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"cybercat" wrote: They are carnivores, asswipe. That is all you need to remember. The only benefit in feeding dry is to the human. Convenience and price. Nuh-uh. Just ask Skipjack. He says that eating kibble is MUCH more preferable an nothing to do with convenience. Of course, he gets canned food 2x/day, 10.5 hours apart because it is better for him. He gets a token amount of EVO (grain free and NOT inexpensive) kibble at bedtime. Why? Because he loves it and it is still a healthy food. -- Janet Boss www.bestfriendsdogobedience.com |
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Roly-poly pets: Overweight animals at risk for diseases, death
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"cybercat" wrote: When I stopped feeding dry my cat stopped hurling, too. They gobble the dry food because they're hungry, and eat too much because they are not satisfied, then it expands in their stomachs and there you have it, on the rug. Skipjack has never barfed. Go figure. -- Janet Boss www.bestfriendsdogobedience.com |
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Roly-poly pets: Overweight animals at risk for diseases, death
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sighthounds & siberians wrote: She's a very contrary cat, she is. How unusual! Haha! -- Janet Boss www.bestfriendsdogobedience.com |
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Roly-poly pets: Overweight animals at risk for diseases, death
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Petzl wrote: Occasionally buy a raw chicken wing put it under grill not to cook but just brown the skin, when cooled give it to cat good for their teeth (now watch the complaints about this fact?) My cat wouldn't touch it. -- Janet Boss www.bestfriendsdogobedience.com |
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Roly-poly pets: Overweight animals at risk for diseases, death
OK. Now that you turned this discussion firmly into one about cats, it
is time to take your flame war out of the dog newsgroups... Thank you cyberpurrs wrote: "Tara Green" wrote in message ... cyberpurrs wrote: "sighthounds & siberians" wrote in message ... On Fri, 18 Sep 2009 00:21:16 -0400, Tara Green wrote: sighthounds & siberians wrote: On Thu, 17 Sep 2009 23:51:23 -0400, "cybercat" wrote: "sighthounds & siberians" wrote Please post some of this evidence that kibble causes diabettes, and that kibble dehydrates cats. You and anyone else can feed your cats **** if you want to. You can do anything to them, right? But they need canned food. Quality meat, delivered with moisture as they would get in the wild. Cats naturally get a lot of moisture from their food. Dry food ****s this up. When I stopped feeding dry my cat stopped hurling, too. They gobble the dry food because they're hungry, and eat too much because they are not satisfied, then it expands in their stomachs and there you have it, on the rug. That's not evidence. I'm well aware of the benefits of canned food, which is why I feed quality canned cat food, and always have. I guess you were so busy frothing at the mouth that you missed that. I've had cats, though, that wouldn't eat canned food, just as I've had cats that threw up no matter what they ate and cats that never threw up no matter what they ate. Anecdotes aren't the same as evidence. Very true. And what's with the frothing? You'd think there's be more of that in the DOG groups ;-) It's cybercat. She's always frothing. Isn't this precious. It's a lady's circle jerk. As opposed to your usual solo performance? Yes, as a matter of fact. "Tara." |
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Roly-poly pets: Overweight animals at risk for diseases, death
Janet Boss wrote:
In article , Petzl wrote: Occasionally buy a raw chicken wing put it under grill not to cook but just brown the skin, when cooled give it to cat good for their teeth (now watch the complaints about this fact?) My cat wouldn't touch it. Stop beating them and maybe they would. But seriously.... I just got a new kitten, 8 months old and he took to chicken right away. Raw of course. Older cats are very difficult to switch over to a better diet mainly because kibble is mostly carbohydrates which are addictive. However, there are a lot of people determined to feed their cats better and will take the weeks or months needed to switch them over. It takes determination and love is all. |
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Roly-poly pets: Overweight animals at risk for diseases, death
On Fri, 18 Sep 2009 08:28:16 -0400, Janet Boss
wrote: In article , Petzl wrote: Occasionally buy a raw chicken wing put it under grill not to cook but just brown the skin, when cooled give it to cat good for their teeth (now watch the complaints about this fact?) My cat wouldn't touch it. And now you've been told Most cats love it but cat's can get pickey Petzl |
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