of the animals in
wild dont eat for a day or two after having a meal ---
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Subject: Re: dry food causing
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Dry food can
Just to add to the discussion... It was also believed at one time that
feeding dry helped to keep the teeth and gums clean by "scratching" the
surface. The vet on the IBD list says this is absolutely not true,
that raw food is much better for this purpose.
Nina
Amy Watson wrote:
I'm reading
Dry food can, but does not always, increase the risk of urinary tract
problems (the grain in it raises the ph, as does having more concentrated urine
from no water content in the food, and the acidifiers they put in to try to
reverse this sometimes cause the opposite problem of oxylate
Dry food is mostly fillers and carbohydrates which cats don't need
and don't process well. Because it is made up of so much fillers it is
essentially not very nutritional and mostly empty calories. I can tell
you for a fact all of my cats that prefer dry are overweight, and the
only way I
My vet told me that the original thinking
of dry food is changing. Before it was recommended to only feed dry food. Now they are finding out that cats do become
obese or have chronic constipation. Not
to mention that dry food is harder to digest and can slow the metabolism.
Chris
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