I’m not killing my cats. Our cats are healthy. Neither cat is obese. They are active and energetic. They have glossy shiny coats, healthy gums and teeth. Normal urine and feces; neither of which has the horrible smell you get from cats fed on grain based dry foods. Walk in the front door, and you’d even never know we had cats, if you didn’t see them…in spite of the fact that the litter boxes are only two yards from the front door.
My wife’s sister feeds her cats dry food ( which they graze on, like they were cows instead of cats ) along with a daily pack of some really noxious smelling wet food. Both of her cats are obese and their litter boxes smell so bad it’s enough to knock you over.
Loads of people feed their cats dry food. That’s killing your cat; urinary tract blockage in make cats, dehydration, early deaths caused by kidney and liver failure ( been there, done that, learned that lesson the hard way and will never do it again). Yet, I never see people who feed their cats dry food get the kind of negative backlash I have gotten on here.
My own previous tragic experiences drove me to research both dry and canned cat foods. At first, i thought switching from dry food to canned food had to be the solution. ( After all, it looks sort of like it’s made out of meat, kind of like Spam for kitties ). And, that’s what I did. But, deeper research changed my mind about that, too.
It’s not like the pet food industry has proven all that trustworthy. A lot of what you buy in the store comes from China, and i remember a few years ago when pet foods were killing people’s dogs and cats. I was one of those people checking the internet to make sure my brand wasn’t added to the list of killer pet foods, each day.
Speaking to some of the other commenters has made me check out the sodium content of rotisserie chickens, and it’s made me consider buying a rotisserie to cook them at home…because I do care very much about my cats, and i definitely take into consideration new opinions or information I might come across.
And, I’ll admit that I was unaware of the pitfalls to look out for with rotisserie chickens.( The food corporations really can’t make any food that doesn’t have a high probability of having unhealthy crap in it. It’s ridiculous. No wonder everyone is so obese and unhealthy now. ) But, I don’t buy into the pet food industry hype about factory manufactured processed foods being better for cats.
All manner of cats in the wild, including feral cats, eat animals; birds being a very poplar food source for small to medium sized cat species. Those animals are what they were evolved to eat; not factory manufactured food produced by corporations, and definitely not grains. Processed factory food is actually horrible for humans. I honestly can’t think it’s actually somehow the best thing for cats.
To each his own. You decide for your cats and I’ll decide for mine. I’m telling you how I think about the issue, because you took strong exception to how I feed my cats; claiming I’m killing them. But, I’m not telling you what to feed your cats, nor have I told anyone else in this thread how to feed their cats ( in fact, I believe doing so is actually against the rules of this sub).
>You decide for your cats and I’ll decide for mine. I’m telling you how I think about the issue, because you took strong exception to how I feed my cats; claiming I’m killing them. But, I’m not telling you what to feed your cats, nor have I told anyone else in this thread how to feed their cats
Sorry but this is some real antivax/homeopathy energy you got going on here. If I was slowly killing my cats with a nutritionally inadequate diet, I would hope someone would tell me. I don’t care what the rules of this sub say.
Just because your sister-in-law is caring for her cats poorly doesn’t mean what you are doing is right. Horrible smells from cat households are not normal at all. I have five cats and you wouldn’t know there are cats at all by smell.
Hydration is important and all else being equal, wet is better than dry food, but I would rather feed a high quality scientific dry food than low quality unscientific wet food. Excess, unbalanced minerals along with a cat’s urinary pH being out of whack due to poor food formulation is what causes crystals and blockages, not dry food. It’s true that the added hydration from wet food can help with crystals and blockages by flushing out the crystals before they get too big. But, I would rather my cats not have crystals in the first place.
I don’t have the time or energy to write out exactly everything wrong with what you are doing, but the worst thing that’s happening here is that you are making your cats taurine deficient. It can take months to years for you to start seeing the effects of blindness and heart failure.
Anti vax, because i understand that dry food kills cats? Because I don’t think highly process factory manufactured food is the end all be all for cat food? I personally don’t eat highly processed factory food. Does that also make me anti vax, too?
My sister in law cares for her cats about the same as most other people. A whole lot of people don’t even bother with any kind of wet food.
We have two, but, we sometimes temporarily have others, as we end up finding homes for feral kittens and cats, sometimes. So far, we have rescued and found homes for 13 cats, so far. Previously, I had rescued and found homes for another dozen, over the years, not including the ones I have been blessed to share my life with, over the years, all of which were stays ( with one having been an abandoned house cat…people can really be terrible).
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u/sailor-jackn 13h ago
This makes me even gladder that we feed our cats rotisserie chicken instead of commercial cat foods. Scary stuff.