Food And Water
CAT NIPS - Tuesday, November 18, 2008
“Stories, Facts & Tips on the World’s Most Popular Pet”
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Dear Fellow Ailurophile!
Here are a couple of tips on food and water for your
cat.
Have A Good Day!
Cassie Cattails
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Cats Need Plenty of Water With Their Food
It Is extremely important nutrient with respect to over-
all health is water. It is very important for a cat to
ingest water with its food, as the cat does not have a
very strong thirst drive. This is a critical point.
This lack of a strong thirst drive leads to low-level,
chronic dehydration when dry food makes up the bulk of
their diet.
Cats are designed to obtain most of their water with
their diet since their normal prey contains approxi-
mately 70 - 75 percent water. Dry foods only contain
10 percent water whereas canned foods contain
approximately 78 percent water. Canned foods there-
fore more closely approximate the natural diet of the
cat and are better suited to meet the cat’s water
needs.
A cat consuming a predominantly dry-food diet does
drink more water than a cat consuming a canned food
diet, but in the end, when water from all sources is
added together (what’s in their diet plus what they
drink), the cat on dry food consumes approximately
half the amount of water compared with a cat eating
canned foods. This is a crucial point when one
considers how common kidney and bladder problems
are in the cat.
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Cat food headed for the freezer
People are often overwhelmed or intimidated by the
idea of making their cat’s food but, in reality,
it’s quite simple. And if you have a simple recipe
to follow, it’s a piece of cake to assemble every-
thing and have nutritious meals on hand for several
weeks that you can freeze. Making your own cat
food doesn’t mean slaving in the kitchen every day-
-trust me, if it did, I wouldn’t be doing it. If
you are interested in preparing your own cat food,
see Making Cat Food.
One common mistake people make when feeding a home-
prepared diet is thinking that a cat can live on
meat alone - without bones as a source of calcium.
While meat must be the primary component of a feline
diet, there is not enough calcium in meat (without
the bones) to ensure that a safe calcium-to-phos-
phorus ratio is achieved. Always remember that
calcium is not an optional “supplement,” but a very
critical component of the diet. The bones must be
ground with the meat (preferable), or bone meal must
be added to the recipe.
Another way to feed a raw meat diet is to purchase
ready-to-feed frozen commercial pet diets. Many
people feed these diets with great results.
Unfortunately, as is also true with canned foods,
these products vary a great deal with respect to
quality and ingredients. Many of these products
contain items such as vegetables in a much higher
quantity than would be found in a cat’s natural
diet. Plus, the vegetables in these diets are
obviously not predigested as they would be if con-
sumed with the cat’s prey. This is a very important
point that many people seem to forget when deciding
to feed vegetables to carnivores. Cats do not have
a physiologic requirement for vegetables and actual-
ly lack the enzymes needed to break down this food
source for efficient utilization.
If you choose to feed a commercially prepared raw
pet food, you must do some homework. One specific
issue to look at is the percentage of vegetables,
and occasionally fruits, that the product contains.
My favorite commercial raw diet is Feline’s Pride.
It is grain-free and vegetable-free. Nature’s
Variety raw food is another quality product. NV
contains 95% meat/bones/organs and only 5% vegetable/
fruit matter. This is a reasonable blend although
some cats with IBD (Inflammatory Bowel Disease) do
not do well with any amount of vegetable matter in
their diet. Other cats will do just fine with up to
10% vegetables or more, although I do not feel that
diets containing more than 5% - 10% vegetables are
optimal diets for a carnivore. Many products do not
list this value on the packaging so a call to the
company will be necessary or ask your local raw pet
food retailer for product literature which may, or
may not, list the breakdown of ingredients on a per-
centage-basis.
Some commercial raw pet diets are prepared without
any vegetable matter. They are simply meat, bones
and organs. Be aware, however, that a diet prepared
with a large amount of necks and backs (common ingred-
ients in commercial products) does not have an optimal
calcium-to-phosphorus ratio. There is very little
meat, when compared to the amount of bone, on this
part of the animal. This leads to a diet that is too
high in calcium relative to the phosphorus which can
cause constipation in addition to other medical
problems.
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– FROM THE “CAT SCRAPS” FILE:
“Again I must remind you that a dog’s a dog–a cat’s a
cat.” — T.S. Eliot
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Be Back With You On Friday — Stay Safe - Cassie Cattails
