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MaalinF
2009-09-08 17:08

Feeding Your Cat - Know the Basics

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Följande är ett utdrag ur en artikel skriven av en amerikansk veterinär. Med detta vill jag visa att det inte är alla veterinärer som rekommenderar torrfoder.

Diet is the brick and mortar of health. This web page lays out some often-ignored principles of feline nutrition and explains why cats have a better chance at optimal health if they are fed a quality canned food diet instead of dry kibble. Putting a little thought into what you feed your cat(s) can pay big dividends over their lifetime and very possibly help them avoid serious, painful and costly illnesses. An increasing number of American Veterinary Medical Association members, including board-certified veterinary internists, are now strongly recommending the feeding of canned food instead of dry kibble.

The three key negative issues associated with dry food are:

1) type of protein - too high in plant-based versus animal-based proteins

2) carbohydrate load is too high

3) water content is too low

But my cat is "fine" on dry food!

Every living creature is "fine" until outward signs of a disease process are exhibited. That may sound like a very obvious and basic statement but if you think about it.

Every cat on the Feline Diabetes Message Board was "fine" until their owners started to recognize the signs of diabetes.

Every cat with a blocked urinary tract was "fine" until they started to strain to urinate and either died from a ruptured bladder or had to be rushed to the hospital for emergency catheterization.

Every cat with an inflammed bladder (cystitis) was "fine" until they ended up in pain, passing blood in their urine, and missing their litter box.

Every cancer patient was "fine" until their tumor grew large enough or spead far enough so that clinical signs were observed by the patient.

Every cat was ‘fine' until the feeding of species-inappropriate, hyperallergenic ingredients caught up with him and he started to show signs of IBD (inflammatory bowel disease).

Every cat was "fine" until that kidney or bladder stone got big enough to cause clinical signs.

The point is that diseases 'brew' long before being noticed by the living being.

This is why the statement "but my cat is healthy/fine on dry food" means very little to me because I believe in preventative nutrition - not locking the barn door after the horse is gone. I don't want to end up saying "oops……I guess he is not so fine now!!" when a patient presents to me with a medical problem that could have been avoided if he would have been feed a species-appropriate diet to begin with.

Of course, in order to be on board with the 'preventative nutrition' argument, a person has to understand the fact that carbohydrates wreak havoc on a cat's blood sugar balance, that a urinary tract system is much healthier with an appropriate amount of water flowing through it, that cats inherently have a low thirst drive and need water *with* their food, and finally, that cats are designed to get their protein from meat - not plants.

Lisa A. Pierson, DVM

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[ngupa]
2009-09-09 13:27
#1

Synd att ingen tar sig tid att översätta Oskyldig

Missannas
2012-01-03 19:58
#2

Åh precis vad jag letade efter! Har en kull kattungar hemma och kommer informera nya hemmen om lämplig kost men funderade på att även skicka med någon slags informationsblad. Ska hänvisa dem till denna artikeln. Glad

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noir
2012-01-04 12:10
#3

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Silvestris
2012-01-04 17:53
#4

Hela artikeln finns översatt här på katter.ifokus.se!Skrattande Översatte den för… 6 år sedan? Artikeln är uppdelad i 4 delar eftersom den är lååång.

kitte
2012-01-07 16:32
#5

#4 Jättebra! Tack.Glad

[Gemm]
2012-01-08 15:02
#6

Men den första delen av hennes artikel har varit översätt jättelänge och finns på förstasidan. Här är en direktlänk till den svenska PDFen.

Här är förstasidan och som ni ser så kan man klicka på "swedish translation".

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kitte
2012-01-08 18:26
#7

#6 Tack, jag har skrivit ut hela artikeln. Glad

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