Feline Nutrition: Nutrition for the Optimum Health and Longevity of your Cat
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Cats, through desert adaptation, require water as a component of their food. They also lack the metabolic pathways to efficiently process plant material, thus defining them as obligate carnivores; their food should consist only of meat, fat, bones, and organs. These are two very simple yet fundamental facts of feline nutrition. A cat is soley designed to hunt, kill, eat, and process meat. Through millions of years of evolution, cats have developed unique characteristics of anatomy, physiology, metabolism, and behavior indicative of obligate carnivores.Many feline diseases such as diabetes, obesity, urinary tract disorders, chronic renal disease, and irritable bowel syndrome can be directly attributed to low moisture, low-meat-protein, and high-carbohydrate levels that plague many of today’s commercially produced cat foods.Many cats survive on these dry, supplemented, plant-based diets but they do not thrive.This book will discuss basic feline anatomy and physiology (explaining how a cat’s body metabolizes nutrients) coupled with interpreting pet food labels which will help you make healthy selections whether choosing to purchase commercial foods or making a home-prepared raw diet to feed your cat.
Publisher : CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
Publication date : July 13, 2011
Language : English
Print length : 132 pages
ISBN-10 : 1461057337
ISBN-13 : 978-1461057338
Item Weight : 2.31 pounds
Dimensions : 6 x 0.3 x 9 inches
Best Sellers Rank: #515,043 in Books (See Top 100 in Books) #302 in Pet Food & Nutrition #389 in Cat Care
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Customers find the book comprehensive and well-researched, outlining the basics of feline nutrition and explaining why to feed a healthier diet. The writing style receives positive feedback, with one customer noting it’s written by a cat person. While some customers find it easy to read, others describe it as unreadable.
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Jules –
This book will give you great insight into what makes a cat…a cat. (Hint: they are NOT small dogs!) 🙂
Being a passionate advocate for cats…and what makes them CATS, I found this book to be very informative and gives great insight into why cats are so unique physiologically. It will clearly define for you that cats are *obligate* or true carnivores. They are not small dogs, in fact dogs are facultative carnivores, not obligate carnivores like cats. There is a huge difference in the two–dogs can process plant-based nutrients, cats have very, very limited (if any) ability to do this.There are also two great recipes for a raw diet in this book to get you started if you’re interested in feeding a raw diet to your little carnivore. 🙂 MY CRITERIA: When it comes to choosing a raw diet, choose one with NO grains and minimal veggies (stay below 5% of the diet w/veggies, if adding any at all). Also make sure it is balanced with meat AND bones or other calcium source. Feeding raw is more than just giving your cat a piece of meat–doing so will create serious deficiencies (and can lead to death) because kitties need calcium in their diet in the correct proportion to the meat. These recipes are totally a species-appropriate diet, and fit my criteria.I’ve been feeding my kitties a BALANCED raw diet for over a decade. My oldest boy is 19 (2015) and still going strong. :)Although I was already well-versed in what the book contains (and there is more info than what I shared here), most people are not. For that reason, I highly recommend this book!
Tawnee Livingston –
Great read for those wanting to give their cat the best
Fantastic read!! So much information on why the best diet for your cat is a wet or raw diet!! A must read for those wanting to give their cat the very best!
Natalia Leigh –
Very helpful book.
I love my two cats and wanted to help them to stay healthy. I was happy to learn how to do this.
Basil Deakin –
Great book for learning about catâs nutritional needs.
This book is easy to follow. It presents lots of good to know information in a way that a non-vet-trained person is able to understand. She provides two recipes that have apparently stood the test of time, as well as guiding the reader about nutritional values to look for in commercial cat food. She doesnât recommend brands, as the quality of commercial pet food is so changeable. Itâs a great tool for figuring it out yourself, and could be very helpful no matter which country you live in. She also recommends that you work with your vet, for your catâs optimum health, but also to take kibble out of your catâs diet. Highly recommended.
MistyriousCreations –
I wish All Cat Owners Would Read This
Well I already knew all the information in this book because of the holistic veterinarian Lisa’s blog at catinfo.org, most people don’t know how much harm they are causing their cats by feeding them dry kibble. This book tells you everything you need to know. I was really hoping it would have more recipes but that’s okay. As a vegan it would be too hard for me to grind up an animal with their bones and and all that stuff so after reading the book and the cost comparison I decided to check online to see if there was an already made raw food company that I could afford. Because I have 13 cats at the moment I cannot afford to feed them raw at every meal. They get raw once a day though and wet pate the rest of the day. I may have to suck it up For the Love of my cats and learn to make my own to make my own because with this many cats I’m losing everything in my savings so. I’ve read other reviews saying that the book tries to guilt them it does not. If you feel angry after reading the book there’s a reason for it. You should feel guilty. I understand people that have their cats love their cats very much and want the best for them and not everybody can afford raw I get that. But the book informs you what the dry kibble does to cats and if you can’t afford raw then the cheapest canned food is better than the most expensive dry kibble. There’s no such thing as a high quality dry kibble. Yes there are some that are far better than others. But regardless and they still cooked at such high temperatures that all the nutrients have been cooked out which is why they have to add man-made nutrients to it. They have to add carbohydrates and starches to get the dry food to hold together. Then they have to spray it with an animal fat to get it palatable for cats to even eat it. How a veterinarian can say a cat is a obligate carnivore and recommend a dry food is beyond me it makes no sense it’s a contradiction. You don’t see wildcats are feral cats sitting around a campfire with their mice and birds on a stick roasting them. If you can’t even afford Friskies wet Pate at 80 cents a can then you shouldn’t have a cat.
greeneyes9999 –
A lot of information, butâ¦
I appreciate all the information in this book. I honestly felt like I was reading a college textbook. I was very disappointed to find out in the end that there are only 2 recipes. I would have preferred less scientific data and more variety in recipes.
ZAZ –
No bla, bla. Pure info.
What I like about this book is it gives you information that is all. No wasted pages with lots of” look at me” or any other “bla, bla, bla” therefore no waste my time and I thank you for it. True if you are new to cat nutrition you might want to consider the writer expertise on it, and you should. You should verify all her statements. But I already did a few years ago when my cats were growing old and started to have health issues. One became diabetic then with proper food was back to normal. So was his chronic constipation and so was his high rise peeing, (finally! had i know all these years!). Basically this books summarized what I had found and gives you a few sites to facilitate your research. This is really a book full of information and better organized than my notes and I thank the writer.
SRIKANTA MITHRA –
Eye opener on dry food and on what a cat actually requires for diet. Also, the book is a quick read.
Martina –
This is great book for anyone who wants to provide better care and nutrition for their cats. It is easy to understand and straight to the point.
Nicola –
Fascinating read really explains about cat nutrition.
Mike P. –
Happy that I purchased this one. Well written and I like that itâs concise. Lots of good information.
Lady Sukki –
This is a very interesting & informative book; a real eye opener!