How can you ensure that the dog food you feed your pet is safe? The best way is to consider making homemade dog food. Do not worry about recalls on spoiled dog food. Instead, you can know exactly what goes into your dogs food by mixing foods on your own.

When you make homemade dog food for your pet, you will need to add meat, starchy foods and vegetable into the mix. The most basic meals have meat, rice and carrots or other vegetables. If your dog deserves a gourmet treat, use tasty meats and a variety of vegetables along with potatoes and rice. Just be certain that every meal contains starches, vegetables and a meat product.

Eggs and other dairy foods should also be added to your dogs food. Rice, potatoes and even pasta can be used to provide your dog with the necessary starches for their diet. Beef and ground turkey are most commonly used in recipes for homemade dog food. Liver and kidney meats provide many nutrients for your pet, not to mention a taste they will enjoy.

You will want to cook meat products before you mix them with other ingredients to make your homemade dog food. Many recipes call for you to mix all ingredients together and then cook or bake them for awhile. Think of it as making a casserole for supper, the only difference is this meal is for your pooch not your family.

Meat should be processed in a blender for your dog before it is placed in the dog food. You will want to ensure that your dog will be able to chew and digest their dog food without any difficulty. Search online for homemade dog food recipes in order to find instructions for preparing a variety of meals for your favorite dog.

Homemade dog food can provide the healthiest and safest meals for your dog. You can find recipes online or by talking to your pets veterinarian. You should talk to their vet in any case before you start mixing up homemade dog food. They can aid you in preparing menus that will provide your dog with food they love and ingredients they need.

Finding a high quality food for your cat can be a bit tricky amongst the expert marketers of cat food all trying to get you as a customer by using words such as “approved by top vets” “Wholesome” “nutritious” not to mention deceptive labeling practices making it appear that “meat” is the number one ingredient.

Many ingredients found in pet food have nu business being there. Not only do they have no value whatsoever to the animal, but can be downright detrimental. Their only reason for being in the food is that they are cheap and increases the profit for the company and it’s share holders.

The multibillion pet food companies spend both time and effort making people believe that grains are healthy and wholesome in order to sell their food. The truth is that grains are implicated with a long range of chronic, painful and expensive health problems.

The use of corn is a very bad addition to your cat’s or dog’s food. It causes allergic reactions and acts as an irritant to the bowel. Possibly a problem of an even greater magnitude is the fact the corn has a high glycemic index.

I high glycemic index means that after your cat eats food containing corn, her blood sugar levels will raise. Cats do not have the necessary enzymes and hormones deal with an absolute onslaught of sugar in the blood. Cats are designed to get their energy from protein, not from carbohydrates.

While the diet of a wild cat contains approximately 3-5% carbs, many commercial kibbles contain 30-60% carbs. 10-20 TIMES the normal amount.

After a meal of corn containing kibble, the cat will have a spike in blood sugar. Cats do not release insulin after eating carbs, cats release insulin after eating protein, thus are inefficient lowering the blood sugar.

The elevation in blood sugar is taxing for vital organs such as kidneys and liver.It taxes and exhausts the endocrine system. After time, the pancreas is unable to keep up and feline diabetes is a not uncommon end result.

Corn is also implicated in feline obesity. Cats do not register full from carbohydrates like we do. They register full from eating protein. In order to get their protein needs satisfied, the cat has to eat more food, thus becoming obese after ingesting foods rich in corn.

Getting your pet onto a food that contains no grains should be a goal for all pet owners and can reverse illnesses such a IBD and even insulin dependent diabetes.

Getting your cat or dog, onto a food that does not contain corn is of utmost importance.

Any cat lover will want to help keep their feline companion from leaving their side too early. It is not that difficult to do that and is similar to taking care of one’s own child. But there might be some key points that cat owners should take note of to extend their pet’s lifespan.

What are some of the basic fundamentals that one should know? One of them is that a comfortable home should be provided for the cat. It is often enough to get a cat bed with some comfortable blankets to sleep in.

Cats are well known for being fussy about hygiene, although usually in their own way. How about making things easier for them by cleaning the bed and blanket? Since dust mites and fleas might come from other areas in your home, be sure to keep those areas dirt free as well.

Your health depends on what you eat, and this is true even for cats. Did you know that cats actually prefer to eat meat more than vegetables like grains or cereal? What you feed them will determine if they live their maximum number of years or pass away earlier due to improper eating habits.

Yet, most cat owners have been taught to feed vegetarian cat food to their pets and being taught that these are healthier. Vegetables might be healthy and necessary for humans, but felines are different. The cat family has been created to feast on meat instead.

So in order to give your cat what it needs most, go for fresh meat products that have been manufactured for them specifically. Alternatively you can prepare your own with fish or other types of meat. They thrive on animal protein and not synthetically produced forms of life’s building blocks.

There are also canned cat foods which are meat based and suitable for consumption. However, they have additives to ensure a longer shelf life. Fresh meat is your best option and vegetable based foods should only be given as a last resort.

With the pointers above, learn to apply them to help your cat live a longer and happier life. It is not difficult to maintain cleanliness and provide the right kind of foods, especially when the aim is to keep your cat with you for as long as possible.

All owners of cats will no doubt wish a long and healthy life for their lovable pets. Doing so can be easily accomplished, although there are a few important factors that should be considered to ensure your cat lives a long life.

So what are the key points that should be taken note of? It starts with providing a good home for the cat to live in. Some might go for elaborate setups, but a simple cat bed with soft blankets is often enough to start with.

Cats can be quite particular about cleanliness if domesticated. Help them by making sure that the blankets and cat bed are washed regularly. Keep your home clean from dust and fleas as the latter might attack your pet.

Another very important point that must be observed to ensure a cat’s longevity is the food given to it. Not many people might be aware of this, but cats are actually natural meat eaters and do not feed on vegetable based foods.

However, it is common to see the latter being given to cats by pet owners. This is not entirely wrong since many of them might adapt to it in order to survive. But it is not the kind of diet that they prefer and are born for.

Therefore, it is advisable to feed meat based foods to your cat. It can be anything as long as it contains animal protein. Their internal body system thrives on the latter and the best options for owners might be to get fresh fish or some other forms of fresh meat.

The canned pet food for cats sold in pet shops should therefore have the same composition. Cat grains might be good to be given once in a while, but note that many cats normally throw up hairballs which are often partly the result of eating food they are not used to. Their lifespan might suffer as a result.

With these three points in mind, it should be considerable enough to help keep your cat healthy and keeping you company for a long time to come. They might be more particular about their hygiene and nutritional needs, but it should hardly be an effort for someone you love so much.

Holistic cat food means that the food is all natural and yes you should be using it.

The cat industries food producers are one of the biggest culprits in the early deaths of our lovable furry family members.

The natural life span of cats is actually twenty five to thirty years but the average cat only lives to be seven to ten years old. The nutritional value of most commercial food for felines is equivalent to Twinkies.

Just imagine what would happen to you if you ate nothing but junk food for the next nine years.

Holistic means that the food is free of all unnatural ingredients. Here’s the kicker though, the manufacturers only have to list what they themselves personally put into the meat.

Basically, the law states that if the meat gets preservatives put into it at a processing plant before it reaches the cat food manufacturers then they can turn around and claim that it is preservative free.

Another thing to think about is what kind of meat goes into your feline’s food. Any thing that is not consumable by humans can be put into wet or dry food, from cancerous cow lungs to poisoned pound animals.

The poison that is used when they put down the dogs and cats does not cook out at the temperatures that the processing plant uses. That means that you may very well be slowly poisoning your cat.

But what are your options?

One of the things you could do is to start making your cat homemade cat food. While this might sound like a time consuming option it really isn’t. When your cat starts getting the proper nutrition he will eat less food so you will only need to feed your cat once a day.

You probably think that since your cat’s food has not been recalled that it is safe for your cat to eat. This is not necessarily true. Many store bought cat foods are so bad for your cat that they are actually hurting him.

Most of the cat foods that we feed our cats have no nutritional value at all. What is wore is that you might unknowingly be posioning your cat. Posioned cats and dogs from the pound is one of the many cat food ingredients you might find in your felines food.

The posion that is used at the pound to put down the cats and dogs may still be present in your cat food. Even at high temperatures the posion does not cook out.

As if using poisioned animals was not enough, any thing connected to the animals is also used. This can range from hair and teeth to metal id tags to flea collars. Road kill is another meat source that is used in cat food.

When they process meat at processing plant any parts of the cow that are not edible for humans goes in a big barrel. This includes any parts of meat with puss, cancer, or other disease’s.

So that leaves us with dead, dying, or diseased animals for the meat source and the meat by products are even worse. It’s no wonder that most cats don’t even live half of their natural life expectancy.

The more research I did on cat food the more shocked I became. I did not even want to touch ny cats food let alone feed it to him.

There are some safe, nutritious foods out there for cats. To give your cat optimal health and a long life expentency it is recommended to feed your cat a combination of safe cat food and healthy homemade food.

Our society is thoroughly convinced of Veterinarians’ qualifications with respect to knowledge of our cats’ nutrition. As a cat owner, we never even consider the alternative. But the question is; could we be wrong?

When we see commercial pet food ads on TV or read their ads in print, we have no reason to doubt their claims. So we, the trusting public, is so convinced by their ads we put the nutritional needs of our pets in their hands.

Unsuspecting pet owners believe what they hear and buy the advertised pet food. Some commercial pet food companies even place a premium price on their products to convince pet owners their product is superior in quality.

Could the commercial pet food companies be hiding the truth from us?

Little nutritional training to Vets is administered in Vet schools and that training is often given by persons that are loyal to the pet food companies. The commercial pet food companies donate money, equipment, banners and free food to Veterinarian schools. What a great long-term business plan – it’s buying loyalty and it puts money in the pockets of commercial pet food companies and the Veterinarians.

If the Veterinarians never question what they’ve been taught and chooses not to do any independent research, they will continue their loyalty to the pet food industry until they retire.

Our domestic cats’ diet should closely resemble the diets of the wild cats that roam the African and asian continents. Commercial pet food companies make these unproveable claims that their foods are nutritional, wholesome, 100% natural and complete. The truth is that their foods violate the fact that cats are carnivores and should never eat stuff they call food.

Because of a cat’s physiology, they cannot digest many of the ingredients included in commercial cat foods. Prolong consumption of carbohydrates and other cheap ingredients will harm and are often fatal to cats. Cats are obligate carnivores and should be fed accordingly.

Although the Food and Drug Administration has been inundated with complaints from consumers regarding their pets becoming ill after consuming foods containing these preservatives; Ethoxyquin, BHA and BHT, the FDA has decided to remain on the sidelines.

Evidence strongly suggests that many Veterinarians have been bought and paid for by the pet food industry. Moreover, it’s unreasonable for us to think they can provide unbias, independent advice regarding our cats’ nutritional needs. Vets lack the training to offer nutritional advice on our pets and making money takes presidence over independent research – educating themselves on the proper nutrition required for our pets should be their main concern but it’s not.

Selling harmful foode to you for your pets is a blatant disregard to the creed they swore to uphold “First do no harm.”

It’s incumbent on you to learn what foods are beneficial for your cat(s). You need to take control of their diets thereby ensuring that they are getting wholesome foods that are beneficial to them.

Our society is thoroughly convinced of Veterinarians’ qualifications with respect to knowledge of our cats’ nutrition. As a cat owner, we never even consider the alternative. But the question is; could we be wrong?

When we see commercial pet food ads on TV or read their ads in print, we have no reason to doubt their claims. So we, the trusting public, is so convinced by their ads we put the nutritional needs of our pets in their hands.

For the most part, we are trusting people and therefore we have no reason to doubt their claims. When the commercial pet food companies put a high price on their food, we are totally convinced that their product is good

That’s what we’ve been told now let me tell you the truth

In Veterinarian schools across the country, little nutrition training is given and the little that is given is often administered by pet food company’s employees. Their main objective is to buy loyalty. They achieve their objective by giving cash, equipment, banners and free food to the schools. The up-and-coming Vets receive greatly discounted or free food to sell in their practice.

That’s buying loyalty and that loyalty continues, barring any independent research by the Vet, throughout the Vet’s career. That loyalty translates into cash for the Vet and the pet food companies.

What about the food the pet food companies claim to be wholesome, nutritional, 100% natural and complete? That statement is false. Our domestic cats are descendents of the wild cats that roam the African and Asian Continents. Domestic cats’ diets should mimic their predecessors. However, today’s commercial pet foods are chocked with harmful, processed and often toxic ingredients.

Because of a cat’s physiology, they cannot digest many of the ingredients included in commercial cat foods. Prolong consumption of carbohydrates and other cheap ingredients will harm and are often fatal to cats. Cats are obligate carnivores and should be fed accordingly.

Preservatives like; Ethoxyquin, BHA and BHT have been liked to cancer and other health-related problems. Consumer complaints have flooded the Food and Drug Administration regarding illnesses suffered by their pets when fed food containing these preservatives by the FDA has chosen not to act.

Many Veterinarians lack the necessary training to offer nutritional advice for our pets. Their allegiances are to the pet food industry and making money, not our pets.

Many Vets ignore the oath they sworn to uphold “First do no harm.” They blatantly sell foods to you that cause harm to your pets

It’s incumbent on you to learn what foods are beneficial for your cat(s). You need to take control of their diets thereby ensuring that they are getting wholesome foods that are beneficial to them.

Could this possibly be the case?

Please allow me to educate you. This article could very well upset you but I urge you to read it in its entirety because your cat’s life hangs in the balance.

The most important fact you must always remember is that our bodies are different and therefore our nutritional needs are diverse. Cats are obligate carnivores – they need meat and Mother Nature designed their bodies to efficiently digest meat.

To avoid your cat from developing diet related diseases, you should never feed them dry cat foods. They need a species appropriate diet that consists of meat as a base. This type of diet will help prevent diet related illnesses.

The commercial cat food companies sell large amounts of the cheaply produced dry, bagged cat foods. Cat caregivers purchase this food out of convenience and as a result of misleading ads produced by the commercial cat food companies. Their ads make you think that such things as; fruits, vegetables and large amounts of processed carbohydrates are beneficial to your cat.

Commercial cat food companies will use every psychological tactic at their disposal including ads that bombard you saying their dry foods are beneficial for your cat to putting pictures of fruits and vegetables on their food packages. All these messages are produced to persuade you to purchase their products but you are smarter than that. You are now getting the rest of the story.

If a human was forced to eat a diet comprised of meats and processed carbohydrates, he would face a premature death. This type of a diet for humans would encourage hypertension, obesity, diabetes and as a result premature death. This is the same results you achieve when you feed your cat commercial dry cat food.

Humans cannot thrive on meat and bread alone. We must have fruits and vegetables coupled with exercise in order to live full and productive lives. By comparison, cats must have a meat-based diet coupled with exercise in order to thrive. By feeding your cats a dry commercial food, you are sentencing your cat to a premature and often painful death.

It doesn’t matter what the commercial cat food companies say, the bottom line is that you are responsible for your cat’s nutritional needs. In order to do that, you must arm yourself with the facts.

The commercial cat food companies that are part of a mostly unregulated industry produce cheap, toxic foods for your cat and make claims that the food is good and nutritional. They make those claims to convince you to buy their products. You believe their claims without researching them to uncover the truth. You do this out of love for your cat but this belief can cause your cat a premature death.

Have you ever considered what goes into a bag of dry cat food? It would probably surprise you but your cat could very well be a cannibal because dead dogs and cats have ended up in commercial cat food. For some commercial pet food companies it is common to find the four D’s ( dead, dying, diseased, disabled) animals in their pet food.

Ingredients listed on the bag such as meat meal, animal digest, animal bi-product and meat by-product often times include euthanized animals from Veterinarian clinics, dying circus animals, dead farm animals covered with tumors and road-kill (dead animals found on the side of the roadways).

You would think that they would stop there but they also add toxic preservatives.

Ethoxyquin, BHA and BHT all have been linked to kidney and liver failure in cats are used to extend the shelf life of their foods.

Do you believe that cat food can sit in a hot warehouse for twelve to eighteen months and still be considered nutritional?

Now is the time to take control of your cats’ diet and end the feeding of bad foods to your cat. Always be mindful of the fact that cats are carnivores and in order for them to thrive, they must be fed a meat-based diet and this type of diet will ensure that they will spend many more years by your side.

Cat food companies will often decieve consumers by using terms to describe their foods as; primium, super premium, quality and natural but there is no legal or scientific definitions for these terms. The source of the ingredients are very important and since cats are carnivores, the source should be animal based.

Have you attempted several ways to get your cat to lose weight but none have worked?

Obesity in cats has reach a crisis. This crisis occurred as a result of feeding them too much of the wrong foods. If you take your cat off carbohydrates and feed him/her a meat-based diet, your cat will be healthier and happier. Start your cat on an exercise program like; climbing a tree, fetching a ball or playing with toys. Additionally, your cat will aviod health problems brought on by obesity that can be quite costly.

Do you know what to change your cat’s diet too?

Let’s incorporate some common sense into this. To do that, we should consider your cat’s origin. Just where did your domestic cat(s) originate? Your domestic cat is a descendent of the wild cats that roam the African Deserts. Mother Nature has well-suited the cat to survive and even thrive in a desert environment.

Water is not plentiful in a desert environment. Mother Nature designed a cat in such a manner that he/she has a low thrist drive naturally. The cat is also an obligate carnivore – they have to have meat as that’s where cats derive their needed nutrients. The only plant food they eat is from the stomach of their prey.

Dry, processed and plant foods are not part of the cats’ evolutionary diet. Mother Nature designed cats in this manner because of their area of origin. Cats are obligate carnivores – they must eat meat. Their bodies are well designed to efficiently digest meat, bones and most bacteria.

For that reason, in the desert you might see cats feasting on animals that have been dead for awhile and swarming with flies, maggots and other parasites.

Cats don’t normally eat plant food but after a kill, cats will eat the stomach content of their prey and in some cases berries, seeds and wild grass are found there. That’s the only time a cat will eat plant foods. Cats get moisture from their prey’s organ meat.

Since cats don’t have a high thirst drive, prolong use of dry food causes chronic dehydration, diabetes, urinary track problems, a weakened immune system and eventual death.

Why do commercial cat food companies produce such low-grade, non-beneficial and toxic cat foods?

The commercial cat food companies objective is to make money and lots of it. They produce cheap dry foods and put harmful and sometimes deadly preservatives to extend their food shelf-life. This is bad for our cats.

In spite of the claims commercial cat food companies make with respect to their food being wholesome, nutritious, all natural and well-balanced, their claims cannot be supported by science or common sense.

What should you feed your cats?

Never ever feed your cat any dry commercial cat food. Dry food is harmful to your cat. It’s best to feed your cat a raw meat diet and avoid feeding your cat carbohydrates.

When purchasing food for your cat, always be mindful that cats are not humans. Our dietary requirements are different from cats. Return the love your cat has shown you and your family by feeding him/her food that is beneficial to them and enhance their longevity. By doing that, you will has greatly reduced the chance of your cat dying a premature death.