Is Low Protein Cat Food Beneficial In Kidney Disease?

By Madeleine Innocent

Low protein cat food is widely recommended for cats with kidney disease (or kd as some like to call it). However, this is an assumption made by vets that has no basis in research or science. No scientific studies have been conducted to show this to be helpful.

In fact, it is quite the opposite. It is extremely damaging to the health of cats and often leads to their early demise. Following such advice, I killed a cat many years ago. Now I don't follow the advice of vets. I look to Nature for my answers. And she never fails, although I may not always fully understand.

It's a pity a cat had to die before I learned my lesson, but I did learn it well.

Very few vets, probably none conventional, understand cats properly. They don't understand that cats are true carnivores. They are not omnivores and certainly they are not herbivores.

Carnivores live exclusively on good quality meat derived from their prey. They don't top up on vegetable matter as dogs can, in times of famine. Their body systems have sacrificed the ability to cope with the complexities of digesting plant based food, in the interest of a light body frame that allows for agility.

A light and agile body can hunt and pounce noiselessly, an attribute essential for lone hunters as cats are.

The vast majority of commercial cat food is produced cheaply, for the good of the companies profit.The health of your cat doesn't come into the equation. Meat is not cheap, even the cheapest. But cheap food is available in the form of grain and other plant based food that have been deemed unfit for human consumption. Or that comes from countries who care even less, such as China.

It is this food, with its high content of plant based foods that is the cause of most of the kidney disease in cats. To further reduce the protein shows a complete lack of understanding of feline health in the advisor.

What you need to do to address this common ailment in cats is to feed a high protein cat food.

Cats with any form of future kidney disease will start to show signs of painful urination, blood in the urine or not being able to urinate at all. The vet treats this with antibiotics, which doesn't address the cause at all.

Usually crystals are found in the urine sample.

The diet of (already, but now further decreased) low protein cat food continues, and so the kidney or renal deterioration continues.

Cats evolved on a diet of high protein cat food. This is the only diet that keeps them healthy. If there is any form of carbohydrate, grain or other plant based food in their diet, you can guarantee they are heading for a chronic disease, often kidney or other renal problems.

Don't be lured into thinking a cat with kidney problems will fair better on a low protein cat food. They won't, whoever advises you, however much you like or trust them. Reason it out logically for yourself.

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Why Cats Have Nine Lives

By Ted H Stuart 

Many, many years ago the ancient Egyptians believed that cats were sacred creatures, and they actually worshiped them. An Egyptian goddess called Bast (or Bastet) was said to have the head of a cat, and the body of a woman. Legend has it that she would bring cats back to life nine times - which gave rise to the myth that cats have nine lives.

While in most countries, cats are said to have nine lives there are some exceptions. In Arabic countries and Turkey the slightly less fortunate cats have six lives, and in Germany and some Spanish speaking countries they have seven lives.

An old book (written in the middle of the 16th century by English author William Baldwin) called "Beware the Cat" contains the phrase "It is permitted for a witch to take her cat's body nine times". During the Dark Ages, many so-called witches were burned at the stake, accompanied by their poor, unfortunate cat.

Some people believe in the superstition that cats have many lives as they can survive falls from great heights with few, if any, injuries. However cats actually survive these falls that would otherwise kill humans or other animals not because they have multiple lives, but because of several natural advantages they possess. Their small size, low body weight and flexible bodies all combine to soften the impact as they land after a fall.

Cats also have an unusually good sense of balance, which allows a cat falling upside down to right themselves by quickly determining their position (upside down or upright), repositioning their body, and making any adjustments necessary to make sure they land safely on all four paws.

By landing on all fours, the impact from the fall is absorbed by all four legs which helps cushion the landing. In addition the very flexible cat also bends its legs when it lands, which cushions the impact by spreading the load through the joints and muscles as well - rather than just the bones which could easily break.

There is an interesting note to add, in that a cat actually stands a better chance of surviving a fall from a greater hight than a lower height! Data gathered by New York veterinarians from their feline patients supports this fact. 10% of their patients died after falling from 2-6 stories, while amazingly only 5% of the cats died when the height was 7-32 stories!

The vets worked out that this was because the additional height buys the cat more time to spread their body into an umbrella shape, which slow's the cat's fall - a bit like them having their very own built-in parachute!

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