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

Originally Posted by Tomiam

NCarver,

If Im reading your post right, I completely agree with you. No accurate testing has been done (that you or I have found). ie: A test which removes all outside variables in a large enough number of cats to remove any anomalyies (sp)

If I fed any of my cats a specific diet based on "what people said" and one died purely down to that diet. I would be gutted & I would also have let down my cats by not doing a bit of research and making up my own mind.

Right. My point was everyone needs to make up their own mind for their own situation, using a variety of sources of information, but not taking any source too seriously. There are no studies that definitively answer the question of what the best diet(s) are for cats. So, anybody that makes a claim to know the one and only best diet for cats--as many websites do--is simply wrong (and I would ignore their opinion). It seems likely to me that there is not a single right approach for all cats and all people.

Rereading your earlier post I see that you are probably offended by my comments about Internet "research," hence this: "I am intelligent enough to know that the internet is not full of 100% factual information...." Intelligence is not the issue, however. Everyone these days will tell you that they know that there is lots of untrue information on the Internet. Still, it can be very hard to resist falling for answers that fit with your preconceptions or being swayed by people that are very pursuasive writers or sites that provide technical sounding explanations, and few people are really trained to be able to evaluate the reliability of technical claims. We are researching migraine issues for my daughter right now. There are lots of web sites providing treatment info, of course. Many of them claim they have "the true answer" (that the entire medical establishment has overlooked), and many are even written by physicians that claim they are using their approaches to successfully treat people. Pretty hard to resist believing some of these claims. Yet virtually none cite any hard science to back up their claims (though many provide scientific sounding justifications). So you just have to force yourself to question every single claim, no matter how appealing it is to believe that you have found the answer that will help.

Heheh I can well imagine how many want to tell you they have a solution and in return they will make your wallet lighter and easier to carry..

Didnt take offence at anything you said, not at all btw. Im too old to believe that everyone will always agree and am definately not going to waste my time attempting to achieve a goal which isnt achievable So no, dont worry no offence taken at all

Completely agree on the question everything. Im managing director, for my sins.., and you wouldnt believe the amount of sales / promotional literature, emails, telephone calls I get all claiming to be the next big thing...

I wish you good luck finding a cure for your daughters migrane problem. Someone who worked for me a few years ago had a very bad problem with them and went to various people to see if there was anything they could do. She left some time ago so I have no clue if there was ever any solution found. :(

Didnt take offence at anything you said

Very glad to hear it!

I wish you good luck finding a cure for your daughters migrane problem.

Hers are not bad yet, but want to see if anything can be done. Not certain that any Internet gleaned info will end up being of use...looks pretty doubtful at this point.

Incidentally, even I was stunned by the stupidity of a cat food review site I came across while researching a particular brand of food today:

Natural Flavor. I always like the way pet food companies hide the use of manure in the ingredients. Natural flavor is made from the manure of the animal the pet food company wants the pet food to taste like. If natural flavor were an actual part of the ingredients and not an added ingredient the pet food company would not have to list natural flavor as a seperate ingredient.

I think we might have a winner here...for least intelligent cat food posting on the entire Internet!!! WooHoo!!!!

This is the first time my computer has stayed on line in the evening & let me have a good read of the postings. I find this feeding topic quite interesting,as someone said we all have our own ideas about feeding.I have worked at a vets for nearly forty years & then cats were fed on good old tinned meat & nothing else,we didn't have the amount of upset stomachs then or obese cats & that in turn meant we didn't have the diabetic cats that are about now & no dried biscuits also meant that there were not the amount of cats suffering from stones either,all things that seem to have become more evident now in the last few years.May be that more people are taking their animals to the vets now so you think these things are new but in fact were in the background all along.
I have stuck with feeding mine a middle priced tinned cat food,don't want to advertise,that is their main diet & they get a small amount of a well known brand biscuit as a treat.As I have mentioned in other threads the boys weigh up to 10kgs & one youngster is already topping the scales at over 9kg with more growing to do so obviuosly must be doing ok on this plain old diet,only had one problem when a very good more expensive tinned cat food was on a good offer,bargain,two days later we suffered,too rich for their tummies,rest will leave to everyones imagination....

[QUOTE=jckkerrison;1894],we didn't have the amount of upset stomachs then or obese cats & that in turn meant we didn't have the diabetic cats that are about now & no dried biscuits also meant that there were not the amount of cats suffering from stones either,all things that seem to have become more evident now in the last few years.QUOTE]

oh i agree totally im 24 lol but grew up around cats if you told your granny about the cat food market she would look sideways at you lol!!! i beleive this is the same with the human food market also...years ago everyone was living to quite a late good age now very young ppl are having strokes and there is more illness same with pet foods...


takes too look back at all of ths and see a bigger picture of evouloution rather than quick scientific studies to actually realise the damage that some companies actually cause than make better x

When I was little my nana and grandad had to huge cats - they weren't MCs just moggies but enormous. My nan never brought any cat food for them she just brought them huge slabs of meat or fish from the local butcher. Can't remember what the meat was now but probably whatever was on offer, just remember her getting it out onto the table top and calling in the cats that used to race to the table and gobble all this raw meat down. It made quite an impression on me watching those huge cats tear into the meat. My nana was French and she called the cats puss puss or what ever she felt like calling them don't think they had names. They were loved though and never ill. Not sure when they died but they seemed to be around for most of my youth.