These days, diets for dogs and cats have embraced rawness, yet it seems as though cats do not do as well as dogs on a vegetarian only diet. Main stream pet foods are like feeding them day old french fries. And no to pasturized milk.

If you’re considering lifestyle change for you pet, do it with terrain modification in mind which includes what’s happening in the gut.

Back in the 80’s, my 12-year-old cockapoo was a bit lethargic and eyes were kinda cloudy. So, no more canned food and no more dry food. I introduced carrot juice, but that didn’t mean she drink it. For three days she only sampled the juice; but by default, it became a “fast” that detoxed.
On The fourth day, she began drinking the carrot juice cautiously, and therein after, began enjoying lapping it up and turning her white hair chin to a carrot color.
During this time, I prepared a blended mix of oat grout, peas and corn with some soy sauce for flavor. To prepare, soak the oat grout over nite, and take equal amounts of soaked oats and frozen organic peas and corn, place them in a food processor and blend until a “oatmeal” consistency and season with whatever attracts the animal; for my cockapoo it was soy sauce.
Now about five days into the new diet, she passes a stool that looks like a sausage, in that her stool was encased in a thin membrane. After this vacating of the bowels, she was obviously more “alert”. Seemed as though an oxygen starving membrane, sort of mucaloid parasite which perhaps had lined her intestinal wall, came out with the stool wrapped in it like a sausage.
After a couple of weeks, I allowed some raw meat and a little dry food back in her diet, but mostly it was a raw diet and carrot juice (I was juicing carrots regularly anyway, and we enjoyed a glass daily).
It was marvelous to watch her rebound in health. My cockapoo lived another 13 years and passed away at 25 years of age. She deserved to be cared for holistically.

Recently, I acquired a 1 1/2 year old Tabby cat from the animal shelter and am feeding him wet foods with no grains. The wet and dry food I give him have probiotics in them, and supplement with raw goats milk with its innate enzymes. In a recent read, states that cats dont have taste buds for sugar, so don’t get them going on poor quality snacks just because you think it will make them happy. Also, cats digest animal proteins and fats, but don’t have the digestive capacity as dogs to digest vegetables and grains. In nature, most cats get their vegetable matter from the digestive system of animals preyed upon.
So, educate yourself and do a little research on raw diets for pets and terrain modify your pet. Now that I have a new pet, I’ll be researching protocals myself.
Cheers, Larry