Even The Best Dry Cat Food Can Be Harmful
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This is the fourth in a series of videos I am doing on the problems with dry cat food, even with what you consider to be the best dry cat food, which may also be the most expensive.
In this video, I’m going to be discussing the problem with leaving dry cat food available all day, a common practice.
I would just like to remind you that in video 1, I explored the ingredients of a popular dry cat food and why they are not suitable or healthy for cats.
In video 2, I explained how dry cat food can lead to dehydration and chronic kidney disease (and a whole lot more).
In video 3, I explained why commercial cat food, and dry cat food in particular, upsets the gut microbiome, which results in poor gut health. The gut health is responsible for 90% of the immune system. Poor immunity leads to any disease.
In this video, I am discussing why any dry cat food, even the best, if there is such a thing, the most expensive, the most targeted for your cat’s condition, including prescription diets, is harmful, quite apart from the reasons mentioned in the first three videos.
For various reasons, people who feed their cat dry cat food, frequently leave some out all day for their cats to graze on at will.
The most common reason I have heard is that they are out at work all day and they don’t like to leave their cat without something to nibble at.
I can understand why people feel this way, as people feel their cats may be bored, hungry or lonely.
Being left shut in a home, sometimes even a room, all day, with nothing to do must be very boring for our highly intelligent feline friends.
But all-day food is not the answer.
Cats are lone hunters in the wild. Hunts are not always successful, by any means. A 50% success rate would be exceptional.
And that’s in optimum conditions - where there is plenty of prey, not much competition, good health, clement weather, etc.
And cats are very patient. Once they have discovered where prey is hiding out, they can sit, waiting for long periods. They are very alert and patient.
So cats are conditioned to go long periods without food. They cope just fine.
Even a few days without food won’t harm an otherwise healthy cat. Yes, I am aware vets tell you otherwise, but please consider my previous comments.
The habit of allowing cats to graze all day means that the last meal has not digested before the next meal is eaten. This can lead to digestive disorders. The feline gut is not meant to be in constant use.
These digestive disorders may take years to appear, so the connection is never made.
Constant grazing all day is beneficial for herbivores. They need to as plant based food is less nutritionally dense than meat.
Cats eating good quality food, such as their natural prey, are getting all the nutrition they need, in just a couple or so of small meals a day.
The animal in the jaws of the cat in this photo, is about the same size as the cats stomach. The cat will be replete on this single catch for several hours.
Carnivores don’t need frequent meals. They need the food they evolved on, not processed food from questionable origins, of dubious age, that comes in a pretty packet.
They need fresh food, not food that can sit on the store shelf for years.
You can learn to feed your cat a healthy way, which is also a convenient way.
Most of us are busy, with little spare time. Certainly my way takes a little more time than simply opening a packet. But not much more. Not when you know how.
You may never know how much this saves you, and your cat, not just in monetary terms, but anguish too, not to mention pain.
If you would like some help finding better and healthier food for your cat, to live healthier and longer lives - check out my website below
www.naturalcathealth.com/dry-cat-food
https://youtu.be/HtcJxU97kDw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HtcJxU97kDw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TIGiPT1xqB4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V0lOH3q3V9A
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ax-K_krIRo