Teeth, tongue, paws, and whiskers – those are just a handful of the pieces of physical evidence that everything about your cat from the ground up is carnivorous.
Carnivores Through and Through
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Don’t Starve a Fat Cat
Hepatic lipdosis – a dangerous condition in which fat accumulates in individual liver cells – is a real risk for obese cats that stop eating altogether.
A Two-Step to Wean Your Kibble Addict
Free feeding dry food, regardless of whether it’s a “light/diet” food, is a tremendous obstacle to transitioning a kibble-addicted cat to a healthier diet.
Be Informed, Not Intimidated
How do you cope when your vet tells you that homemade cat diets may be highly unbalanced and discourages you from making your own cat food?
Ingredient Splitting
It's good to get a little educated about "ingredient splitting" tactics on food labels. Ingredients in pet food are listed on the label in descending order by weight - and while this means you should always look for meat as a first ingredient in a diet for a...
AAFCO Doesn’t Regulate or Certify Pet Foods
Many of us have been conditioned to take comfort in pet foods that meet “AAFCO industry standards.” Once you know what those standards are, you may not be taking so much comfort in that.
Please Don’t Moisten That Dry Cat Food
Moistening dry cat food is an efficient way to transform it into potentially dangerous bacterial soup. Feeding naturally moist canned food or, even better, balanced homemade food, is a better way to go.