Feces or vomit?

Dennis Carr wrote in message
(Don't mind me, I'm put off by Purina when I
looked at the indoor cat formula and found the first ingredient to be
'cellulose', which is something they use to make particle board and such.

Cellulose isn´t exactly bad. It´s one of the major constituents of the
cell wall of plants. Paper is cellulose. Anyway, every time you eat a
fruit or a vegetable, you´re ingesting plenty of it. The thing about
cellulose is that it is not digestible, it goes straight through. If
kitty doesn´t have a problem with fibers, cellulose won´t do any harm.
It´s even better over corn because corn is digested and is nothing but
carbohydrates and kitties do not need carbs. The good idea about
cellulose for indoor cats is that it has no calories so the kitty
won´t put on weight - or at least shouldn´t. Yet I don´t like feeding
cats that much fiber so I wouldn´t be crazy about a food with
cellulose either.

Dennis Carr wrote in message
(Don't mind me, I'm put off by Purina when I
looked at the indoor cat formula and found the first ingredient to be
'cellulose', which is something they use to make particle board and such.

Cellulose isn´t exactly bad. It´s one of the major constituents of the
cell wall of plants. Paper is cellulose. Anyway, every time you eat a
fruit or a vegetable, you´re ingesting plenty of it. The thing about
cellulose is that it is not digestible, it goes straight through. If
kitty doesn´t have a problem with fibers, cellulose won´t do any harm.
It´s even better over corn because corn is digested and is nothing but
carbohydrates and kitties do not need carbs. The good idea about
cellulose for indoor cats is that it has no calories so the kitty
won´t put on weight - or at least shouldn´t. Yet I don´t like feeding
cats that much fiber so I wouldn´t be crazy about a food with
cellulose either.

(Liz) wrote in message . com...
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Cellulose isn´t exactly bad. It´s one of the major constituents of the
cell wall of plants. Paper is cellulose. Anyway, every time you eat a
fruit or a vegetable, you´re ingesting plenty of it.

It (or variations thereof) is also added to various human foods, as a
thickener.

Wrt hairballs, I didn't find the hairball formula (dry) foods any more
effective than feeding a mostly wet food diet.

Steve.

(Liz) wrote in message . com...
(...)

Cellulose isn´t exactly bad. It´s one of the major constituents of the
cell wall of plants. Paper is cellulose. Anyway, every time you eat a
fruit or a vegetable, you´re ingesting plenty of it.

It (or variations thereof) is also added to various human foods, as a
thickener.

Wrt hairballs, I didn't find the hairball formula (dry) foods any more
effective than feeding a mostly wet food diet.

Steve.

(Steve G) wrote in message . com...
(Liz) wrote in message . com...
(...)

Cellulose isn´t exactly bad. It´s one of the major constituents of the
cell wall of plants. Paper is cellulose. Anyway, every time you eat a
fruit or a vegetable, you´re ingesting plenty of it.

It (or variations thereof) is also added to various human foods, as a
thickener.

Wrt hairballs, I didn't find the hairball formula (dry) foods any more
effective than feeding a mostly wet food diet.

Steve.

Wet is definitively much better over dry!

(Steve G) wrote in message . com...
(Liz) wrote in message . com...
(...)

Cellulose isn´t exactly bad. It´s one of the major constituents of the
cell wall of plants. Paper is cellulose. Anyway, every time you eat a
fruit or a vegetable, you´re ingesting plenty of it.

It (or variations thereof) is also added to various human foods, as a
thickener.

Wrt hairballs, I didn't find the hairball formula (dry) foods any more
effective than feeding a mostly wet food diet.

Steve.

Wet is definitively much better over dry!

"Laura R." wrote

For years, people (including veterinarians) espoused dry food as
being better than canned. However, long-term studies have shown the
opposite to be the case. I've even seen theories that wet food is
better for cats' teeth than dry because it's not as full of "filler"
that promotes tooth decay. Regardless of whether or not wet *is*
better for cats' teeth (and my cats' teeth look better with a
primarily wet diet than they did with dry), wet food is much better
in terms of moisture content and lack of filler material. Cats are
also less likely to be obese with a wet diet, in my experience.


While all of this makes sense, and as I have posted, our
fat girl is losing weight on canned food, my experience has
included a cat that was fed nothing but dry (Science Diet)
for her last 16 years of life. She died at age 20 and still
had all of her teeth. (One had a small chip.) And, she
was always at her ideal weight, although free-fed, and had
no health problems at all her entire life. None.

Her daughter, who also lived to be 20, had lost most
of her teeth by age 15, and had been fed nothing but
wet food. Neither cat had professional dental care.

Having said all of that, I think that heredity plays
at least as big a role in cats' lives as it does in ours,
with regard to health and longevity. Maybe Gnarly's
daughter Penny inherited her Papa cat's bad gums?
She certainly did not inherit her mother's horrid
disposition, so maybe. She was a sweet, sweet
cat and I was ****ed when my sister nonchalantly
said "oh, Penny is missing a fang." I thought she
should have noticed if she had dental problems.
But that is another story.

"Laura R." wrote

For years, people (including veterinarians) espoused dry food as
being better than canned. However, long-term studies have shown the
opposite to be the case. I've even seen theories that wet food is
better for cats' teeth than dry because it's not as full of "filler"
that promotes tooth decay. Regardless of whether or not wet *is*
better for cats' teeth (and my cats' teeth look better with a
primarily wet diet than they did with dry), wet food is much better
in terms of moisture content and lack of filler material. Cats are
also less likely to be obese with a wet diet, in my experience.


While all of this makes sense, and as I have posted, our
fat girl is losing weight on canned food, my experience has
included a cat that was fed nothing but dry (Science Diet)
for her last 16 years of life. She died at age 20 and still
had all of her teeth. (One had a small chip.) And, she
was always at her ideal weight, although free-fed, and had
no health problems at all her entire life. None.

Her daughter, who also lived to be 20, had lost most
of her teeth by age 15, and had been fed nothing but
wet food. Neither cat had professional dental care.

Having said all of that, I think that heredity plays
at least as big a role in cats' lives as it does in ours,
with regard to health and longevity. Maybe Gnarly's
daughter Penny inherited her Papa cat's bad gums?
She certainly did not inherit her mother's horrid
disposition, so maybe. She was a sweet, sweet
cat and I was ****ed when my sister nonchalantly
said "oh, Penny is missing a fang." I thought she
should have noticed if she had dental problems.
But that is another story.