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

Interesting discussion and reading. Thank you all.

I am a multi pet care giver for all my live and based on my expirence I came to the following conclusion:

Either feed a top premium pet food - wet and dry as to clean teeth and for convinience when traveling or in show, wet as not to overly stress the kidneys and as a special treat. If possible bio. Once a week offer a raw treat like fish, chicken or meat, egg white or egg yolk (not toghter)

or

Follow Dr. Vet. Pitcairn's receipe and feeding ritual with BIO grade raw meat and food. (Too expensive for me here in Greece with so many animals that I have)

I belive very strongly that the argument of Pitcairn that our "human grade" SM meat full of hormones and antibiotics is NOT beneficial to our animals. Sebastian or the other "in home zone" cats will not it ground meat from the SM, but they scream their heads off for the butcher meat.
As for the "wider zone" strays I feed - those who are not under my direct care and need to be trapped if needed - I find that a feed like Royal Canin (super premium) will actully staisfy their hunger better AND keep them healthier, with less parasites and better coats - hence are cheaper than the "cheaper" pet foods such as Whiskas or Friskies for example. I stay away from these feeds also because of the sugar content and fear of diabetes (Dog owners beware) plus I found that the animals had a higher parasite infection (hence poor coat and loose stools).

Dr. Pitcairn adds Taurine powder and Salmon oil to his receipes if I am remember correctly.
As far as the Taurin goes, my old Vet told me that cats with an excisting health issue have a special need for suplementing their diets. This goes also for the auto-produced Vitamin C.

All my cats lived past 15 years of age. All of them had a form of cancer at the end, but one with renal failure, aged 20. All of them where wonderful, active animals, that after the neutering never went to the vet till to the last years or a routine check up.

Check out the site of Dr Pitcairn - I find him an interesting read Dr. Richard Pitcairn