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Maya2001 -> RE: Advice for adopting a kitten and its care (1/20/2008 9:58:59 AM)
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ORIGINAL: SimplySubmissive
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ORIGINAL: FangsNfeet
Spay/nutter, declaw, have toys and cat nip on hand.
Clear counters of breakable items.
don't declaw! very cruel process.
get a scratching post of some kind.
Science Diet cat food is best, it's what most vets will tell you they feed their own pets.
kittens are so fun!
Only reason vets recommend is because hills puts together their nutritional classes and then offers to supply them with foods for their practice, but the stuff is crap it is mostly just grain , cats are not cows they are true carnivores they need meat and lots of it to be healthy , even dogs need more meat than what is most dog foods that is they reason increasing number of dogs and cats are suffering with problems such a kidney disease as they age and diabetes and immune system problems .
Hills is still ignoring the new research about protein needs, and still twisting facts, yes grain proteins lack certain enzymes so too high an amount of "grain" protein can be harmful, but that is not true of "meat" protein, they also still argue that dogs anc cat should be put on low protein diets around 10% when they have early stage kidney disease yet studies are showing that at that low the animals kidney will decline whereas if given 45% "meat" protein can extend their lives as long as still caught in the early stages of renal failure.
As a result I choose to feed kibbles similiarly formulated to match natural diets.for example the EVO line of foods
http://www.evopet.com/
Wellness Core http://www.omhpet.com/wellness/cat_wellness_dry_core.html
orijen
http://www.championpetfoods.com/orijen/orijen/
http://www.naturesvariety.com/content.lasso?page=1172
I have had 2 dogs that I adopted with Lupus 18 years apart, the first I was told by the vet to feed Science Diet he progressively got worse, with open weeping sores had to go on daily cortisone died within 3 years. Current dog diagnosed over 4 years ago I choose EVO for her her skin has improved one would barely know she has Lupus, only vitamin are used for treatment and she is healthy and bouncy after 4 years with a gorgeous shiny coat, even my senior dogs are despeite my vets objections at first they have maintained muscle mass and early blood work show ones thyroid function improved while on instead of the normal decline, all other values are excellent even those related to kidney and liver function , the vet did full xrays and was shocked that there was no signs of arthritis, he is still strggling to understand because his classes taught him it was wrong to feed high protein, he has performed some of the testing for free on my dogs and he is starting to slowly coming around by the test results he is seeing with his own eyes
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