Thread: My opinion on foods... (For what it's worth)

Before I post a bit more I thought I would set out a few 'facts'.

• I am by no means an expert on food composition and I have no carried out any scientific tests. I have spent the last week reading up on raw diets. Like NCarver, I have struggled to find a 'solid' test and I really doubt one will exist.
• I am intelligent enough to know that the internet is not full of 100% factual information and many websites, to their detriment imo, tend to use emotive language in order to bring you onto their side. Im talking both commericial and non commercial.
• I really dont care if someone proves what I think is right, to be wrong. If they do, woohoo! I learned something and my cats will be better off as a result.
• My interest stems from one of my own cats. Loki. Thread linked here: http://www.maine-coon-forum.info/hea...ll-formed.html

I went out on our weekly food shop yesterday with my wife. Whilst travelling past the pet food isle I thought I would pick up some commercial foods and read the ingredients. I had read on the internet that 'soandso food' was full of 80% moisture and 3% ash and 4% vegetable matter and... (where is the meat???)
I thought they were exagerated claims to be honest, but being someone who likes to do his own investigation I figured Id have a look.
Exagerated? Nope. I looked at about 8 or 9 of the well known cat foods (Whiskers etc) and read through their ingredient list. Didnt take much to convince me from that point on that there is signigicantly less 'goodness' in those cans than what I had previously thought.

Raw Fed Cats
Website uses quite emotive language which detracted me from the info, BUT it did provide a catalyst for my interest and I then went off looking at other pieces of information. On the basis of my experience with Loki and my research

Thanks NCarver for that website link. One thing pops into my mind though is that I cant believe that they only fed them on rabbit! I dont doubt they did, but why just one meat type?!! Im 100% astounded! Ive only been researching raw diets for a short while and I understand the important of variety. By doing that they were just asking for trouble. A big oops! indeed.
Taurine deficiency... again, Im giving my two kitten milk + 24/7 water. Kitten milk of course contains a fair degree of Taurine. Surely any balanced diet test should take these things into account.


My advice to anyone thinking / concerned about diet - Do you own research. Make up your own mind but dont be afraid to ask experts in any camp for their opinion.


Oh and as a side note: My trip to tesco ended up with one raw tuna steak, a large fillet of boneless pacific cod, and two big packets of raw chicken thighs. All for the cats