 Three questions to ask about the food you're giving your cat:
1. Is the primary protein in the food derived from animal or plant sources? 2. What is the moisture content of the food? 3. How high is the carbohydrate load? Why these questions? ↪ Cats are carnivores that require ANIMAL-based protein to thrive. ↪ Cats have a naturally LOW thirst drive. ↪ High-carbohydrate diets contribute DIRECTLY to multiple disease processes in cats.
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 Moisture matters. A lot.
⤿ The moisture content in a cat's normal prey is about 75 percent. ⤿ Dry food has a moisture content of only 5-10 percent. ⤿ Even with supplemental water drinking, a cat eating only dry food takes in, at best, only about HALF the moisture as a cat eating canned or home-prepared food. That's a 50 percent cut in the life-nourishing (and urinary-tract flushing!) flow of water through the body. Dry food = dry cats! FOLLOW us on Facebook to get these Bites in your news feed.  Cats switched from a dry diet to a raw diet often stop drinking supplemental water - this is common!
Cats were designed by Mother Nature to get their moisture with their food. You should still, of course, always have fresh, clean water available for your cat - just don't be surprised if you never or only very rarely see your cat drinking from the water bowl. While every cat is different, as one purely anecdotal benchmark, in the 2.5 years I've lived with our cat Wilson, I can count on one hand the number of times I've seen him at a water bowl.  1. The moisture in canned or home-prepared food is absolutely vital to your cat's urinary tract health 2. Most dry foods rely on grain-based proteins that have low biological value for obligate carnivores (cats) 3. The carbohydrates in dry food are high and harm a cat's blood sugar and insulin balance 4. Many dry foods contain ingredients that are allergenic to cats 5. Many dry foods contain soy ingredients that can harm a cat's thyroid gland FOLLOW us on Facebook to get these Bites in your news feed.  Water in canned food is not a wasted, useless, filler that's only there to take up space. It's insurance that a cat is getting her moisture with her food, as nature intended. Remember - a cat eating dry food, even if she is drinking supplemental water, still has roughly only half the water intake of a cat eating canned food. There's nothing that's a bargain about dry food for cats. Follow us on Facebook to get these Bites in your news feed. |
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