Feeding Your Cat
Getting back to basics

Feeding your cat is the most basic concern of all cat lovers.   After the toxic food poisoning incident that hit the United States, cat owners are evaluating their cat food choices. 

Cats are carnivores, and as such, are natural predators. Farm, barn and feral cats' diets consists almost entirely of animal tissue. They hunt to fill their bellies with the creatures they capture. This means they consume very high amounts of lean protein with little to no carbohydrates and just a moderate amount of fat. 

The cat is an "obligate carnivore."  That means they have requirements for certain nutrients found only in animal tissue.  They must eat meat to survive.  They need a very high protein diet.  Here are some nutrients they get when they eat raw - yes raw - meats.

• Taurine,

• Arginine,

• Amino acids,

• Animal protein.

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You are in charge of feeding your cat and her cat food choices.  Well...she may help you out a bit with the cat food choices by turning tail on some meals.  Your challenge is to provide her a quality diet that provides a similar balance of lots of protein, a little fat and just a hint of carbohydrates. 

Cat owners are turning their backs to manufactured dry cat kibble and even the canned products. 

The case against commercial cat food products