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WHAT DOES HOLISTIC & ORGANIC MEAN?:

Holistic/Organic food is produced without the use of: Conventional pesticides, Synthetic fertilizers, Sewage sludge, GMO grains, Irradiation.

Holistic/Organic farms are committed to: conservation of soil & water, environmental quality for a sustainable and contaminant free future.

Knowing this information, you can be better informed in your decision making about your pet’s health. Cheap and easy doesn’t always save you money when later down the road your pet develops health problems. Get informed and educated now and decide what is most important to you: saving money and taking your chances or spend a little extra now and spare yourself the trip(s) to the vet later – where you’re likely to spend FAR more than had you provided your pet with added nutrition and a lack of harmful pesticides & chemicals.

• Blue Buffalo
• Felidae
• Life’s Abundance dry
• Natural Planets
• Newman’s Own Organics Premium Pet Food
• Organix
• PetGuard
• Solid Gold
• Wellness

More cat food organic:

Some natural organic canned cat foods include Natural Balance, Evanger’s Organic Braised Chicken, and Nature’s Logic. Natural Balance doesn’t contain by-products, and they do offer indoor formulas. In addition, this company tests for seven known toxins to ensure quality. Evanger has been in business since 1935, and their canned cat food is kosher-approved and contains human-grade ingredients. Nature’s Logic is a good fit for more sensitive cats. Their food is free of ingredients that commonly cause irritation including wheat, corn, rice, soy, potato and chemically created vitamins, minerals and nutrients.

Do You Know What Your Pet is Eating?

It wasn’t until the early 1900s that we produced the first bag of cat food, more for our own convenience than the well being of our feline friends, whose digestive systems were designed to process live meat, a far cry from dry kibble.

The cat is more than a carnivore — she is an obligate carnivore. To survive, the cat must eat meat.

Basic Cat Nutritional Requirements:

Cats, like all animals, require six classes of nutrients:

• Water
• Energy
• Protein
• Essential fatty acids
• Minerals
• Vitamins

Notice that carbohydrates are not listed. Cats have essentially NO requirement for carbohydrates, deriving all of their energy needs from a diet rich in protein and fat. The only carbohydrates their ancestors ate were the vegetables in the digestive tracts of their prey, which were already “pre-digested.” These carbohydrates made up about 3-5 percent of the cats’ diet.

The metabolic requirement for glucose in your cat is derived from proteins (glucogenic amino acids) and fats (glycerol) — she has no mechanism for converting carbohydrates to energy, like dogs and humans do. This is why animal protein is so crucial for cats

Cats need more protein than other carnivores.

What’s In Your Bag of Cat Food?

Now, take a look at the label on that bag of dry cat food in your pantry. Even if you have a “reputable” brand, chances are it has a fair amount of vegetable-derived carbohydrate and grain ingredients:

• Corn
• Wheat
• Rice
• Soy

One primary reason is that it’s hard to make a dry kibble without those things. Typical dry foods are 35-40 percent carbohydrate, and some are as high as 50 percent.

So, you’ve been feeding your precious felines a diet lower in protein, lower in moisture, and higher in carbohydrate than what they are biologically designed to eat.

The end result?

Cats now share one major health problem with their human companions: obesity. Read more here…

UPDATE 07/18/09: I received some very VALUABLE information today from my Holistic Veterinarian John Limehouse DVM of Limehouse Veterinary Clinic . I had no clue about RAW diets and the potential harm that they could do to an animal if improperly cooked. Here is what he said:

“PT and I and many other vets do not agree with raw food diets since so many animals get E. coli or Salmonella from them. Also, all home cooked menus need to be analyzed to make sure they are balanced and this does cost money. Every time the diet is changed, it should be reanalyzed. Go to Susan Wynn’s web and blog. She is about the sharpest veterinarian out there. She has so many advanced studies and is just completing her latest one in Nutrition and will be a Board Certified Veterinary Nutritionist.
Here is one link to her: VetNutrition.blogspot.com“– John B. Limehouse, DVM, CVA (IVAS), FAAVA

[Sources:  HolisticPetFood , Mercola ]

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