My Cat Nutrition Guru, Doc Pierson

12/14/2014

I am so proud and pleased. Dr. Lisa Pierson - whose acquaintance I was lucky enough to make many years ago when I was first noodling around the whole cat nutrition question - is featured in an extensive interview published by Mercola's Dr. Karen Becker.

The link to the story is here.

And the interview itself is below.

Like my website credits say, Dr. Pierson is a California veterinarian who works unbelievably hard to save countless cats from misery, pain, and abuse through tireless and often heartbreaking rescue work. She's helped to keep me on the straight and narrow when it comes to interpreting and deciphering the professional literature on feline nutrition.

If you've not spent time reading and absorbing the great details on her website, what are you waiting for?

3 Comments

Jenna Meow link

1/22/2015 07:18:14 pm

My two favorite people coming together! Wonderful interview!

Patty Spaulding

7/2/2015 12:48:45 pm

I just have to tell you about the wonderful success I have had with my kitty, Sweetie. She has been so very sick with severe food allergies, and IBS for the last two years. I found your web site about a month ago, and just read story after story. I have tried everything the vet recommended, and every natural suggested cure in the world I ran across. Sweetie was dying slowly before my eyes and I felt helpless to stop it. After I read about the raw food diet, I decided to go for it. Why not? Nothing had worked so far. I ordered my meat grinder, got my vitiams, purchased some duck, and tried it out. Sweetie has been eating her raw duck diet for about nine days now. She is gaining weight, she no longer has the poops, and she feels so much better. Thank you for everything you do. I know that you have saved her life! So very grateful to you I can't tell you enough.😊

Kari Walker link

7/27/2019 07:41:28 pm

I too found Dr Lisa Pierson's fabulous website and also got the grinder, the vitamins, the jars and an extra refrigerater to hold the food. MY first cat David managed to live to the ripe age of 19 years on Mixed Grill food only. I suspect that during that time they 1970's perhaps the canned cat food was better than in 2018. I have been feeding my cats Dr. Pierson's raw food diet for the last 8 years with wonderful results. My oldest cat, Tasmin who is 16 years old, a purebred Abyssinian with papers that I adopted 8 years ago has just been diagnosed with Renal failure sadly. My only thought is that perhaps he was given high carbohydrate food for the first 8 years of his life before he came to me. He was a very unhappy guy when we first adopted him for sure. It took him years to open up and become the fantastic loving loyal guy that he is today. At first we did not think that he could purr. He never did and he shrunk from us whenever we reached out to pet him. He is kept inside because even though he is neutered, he would fight with other cats in the neighborhood and on the other hand would sit on the curb of the street and let strangers pick him up taking him home until we would get a call from a veterinarian who scanned his chip. No more going out for our guy after that.

I credit the diet he is eating, Raw turkey ground with all of the organ meats and the bones very finely to which I add the exact amounts of vitamins and water Dr. Pierson recommends. My other 2 cats are younger and also eagerly eat the raw food diet very willingly. Never had any hesitation about eating it. The turkey I buy is not organic but is raised based on the Whole Foods parameters for people and that is where I buy the turkey thighs. I make the food in 30 pound lots or 15 pound lots at a time. Once the ingredients are mixed and sealed in glass jars the jars are then frozen until needed. They thaw overnight in the refrigerator. Each cat is fed a measured 2 oz of food twice a day and the food is not left out ever if not eaten. No dry food at all it ever give to my cats.

I have fostered cats from the SOCal Abyssinian rescue with IBD frequently. What I have done is put them on the raw food diet right away and wean them off of the prednisone which each one is always on. They recover and feel much better and start to groom themselves again. The diarrhea stops.
When adopted, the new owners are advised that if the cat is not fed the raw food diet then the disease will return. Some owners do try to feed the cat commercial food only to find out that the cat becomes very ill again with runny stools and with no control over where they have to go causing kitty box problems which are not their fault.

Once back on the raw food they are again fine. The runny stools and inappropriate poo not in the kitty box stop.

Feeding this way is more work but for me it is very worth the extra work to feel that my cats have the best possible food closest as possible to a "mouse in a can."

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