Monday, June 27, 2011

Cat Entry Deux

I get pissed off reading on the internet. Here is why(and I should point out this is well respected veterinarian, not some quack):

"In the wild, your cat would be eating a high protein, high-moisture, meat-based diet, with a moderate level of fat and with only approximately 3-5 percent of her diet consisting of carbohydrates. The average dry food contains 35-50 percent carbohydrate calories. Some of the cheaper dry foods contain even higher levels.

This is NOT the diet that Mother Nature intended for your cat to eat.

Many canned foods, on the other hand, contain approximately 3-5 percent carbohydrates.

Please note that not all canned foods are suitably low in carbohydrates. For instance, most of the Hill's Science Diet (over-the-counter) and the Hill's Prescription diets are very high in carbohydrates and are not foods that I would choose to feed."

The fuck?! this is the brand and type of food that pets unlimited carries-that they recommended, almost to the exclusion of everything else. I have been trying to feed these to both my cats for months now-at Bob's great expense-only to learn they are the LEAST protein heavy diets available. Plus I have to go half way across town to find anywhere that carries them. I have been trying to feed them pre-prepared cooked chicken-to offset the dry food-which is way high in salt-to balance out the dry food. now I learn the dry food is full of carbs and I've been cramming salt into both of them-which dries them out more. I don't know how I haven't killed them both. I feel like a complete fucking idiot-and like I want to KILL the vet at pets unlimited. Seriously, its a good thing I don't own guns. this blog would end with posts from San Quentin and me doing a 10 stretch for murder.

Rawwwwwrr!

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

I always thought IAMs was THE pet food of pet foods.

Bunnies mostly just need Oat hay. Why oat hay? It's the highest in protein lowest in fat. :)

Hugs.