http://consciouscat.net/2009/03/01/amber-is-on-a-diet/ conscious living, health and happiness for cats and their humans Thu, 17 May 2012 05:45:31 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 http://consciouscat.net/2009/03/01/amber-is-on-a-diet/comment-page-1/#comment-5949 Amber's Mewsings | The Conscious Cat Fri, 05 Mar 2010 12:11:50 +0000 http://ingridking.wordpress.com/?p=70#comment-5949 [...] I think it’s a bit ironic that the first real post on this site that Mom wrote was titled Amber is on a diet - but I guess I really needed it then, even though I still think that I was only big-boned and [...] [...] I think it’s a bit ironic that the first real post on this site that Mom wrote was titled Amber is on a diet - but I guess I really needed it then, even though I still think that I was only big-boned and [...]

]]> http://consciouscat.net/2009/03/01/amber-is-on-a-diet/comment-page-1/#comment-4 Eating gluten free « The Conscious Cat Tue, 14 Apr 2009 01:53:29 +0000 http://ingridking.wordpress.com/?p=70#comment-4 [...] digesting grains.  Our pets also do better on grain-free diets.  See my previous posts “Amber is on a diet“  and “How to choose healthy foods for your pet” for more information about [...] [...] digesting grains.  Our pets also do better on grain-free diets.  See my previous posts “Amber is on a diet“  and “How to choose healthy foods for your pet” for more information about [...]

]]> http://consciouscat.net/2009/03/01/amber-is-on-a-diet/comment-page-1/#comment-3 Fern Thu, 05 Mar 2009 13:51:17 +0000 http://ingridking.wordpress.com/?p=70#comment-3 Amen to that!! My bet is that twenty years from now, we are going to look back on the epidemic of inflammatory bowel disease we are seeing in cats today, and how that all went away when we took grains out of their diets, and we are going to say to ourselves.... What were we thinking???!! Cats don't run around eating wheat and oats in the wild! Of course they do better without that! And allergies..... and diabetes..... and obesity..... and on and on..... Good on you Ingrid!!! PS: a note, though, to those who go farther down this train of thought to raw diets: it's one thing to catch mice in the wild, and quite another to eat raw meat produced in an intensive agricultural setting. The pathogens we nurture in those settings, while handled just fineby cooking, are NOT okay to eat raw. Don't think a raw diet is good just because it's "closer to natural;" raw diets produced through agriculture are NOT natural at all and can be very dangerous! Now, does natural caught mouse present some diseases (mostly parasites) to cats? Yes, but these are diseases and parasites that cats have been exposed to for millenia, and have been evolutionarily selected to have a natural immunity against. Again, NOT the same thing as eating commercially produced raw diets. Just my two cents (or two dollars in this current market.) Amen to that!! My bet is that twenty years from now, we are going to look back on the epidemic of inflammatory bowel disease we are seeing in cats today, and how that all went away when we took grains out of their diets, and we are going to say to ourselves…. What were we thinking???!! Cats don’t run around eating wheat and oats in the wild! Of course they do better without that!
And allergies….. and diabetes….. and obesity….. and on and on…..
Good on you Ingrid!!!
PS: a note, though, to those who go farther down this train of thought to raw diets: it’s one thing to catch mice in the wild, and quite another to eat raw meat produced in an intensive agricultural setting. The pathogens we nurture in those settings, while handled just fineby cooking, are NOT okay to eat raw. Don’t think a raw diet is good just because it’s “closer to natural;” raw diets produced through agriculture are NOT natural at all and can be very dangerous!
Now, does natural caught mouse present some diseases (mostly parasites) to cats? Yes, but these are diseases and parasites that cats have been exposed to for millenia, and have been evolutionarily selected to have a natural immunity against. Again, NOT the same thing as eating commercially produced raw diets.
Just my two cents (or two dollars in this current market.)

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