- Thread Starter Thread Starter
- #41
Yeah, but there's a million reasons for that. Fighting, predation, no vet care, parasites... we can eliminate all of those, including the potential issues with raw food, like parasites. There's no reason they have to die of that stuff when feeding raw.
They don't live very long though, I read somewhere 4~5 yrs on average, often much less
Our cats spend a lot of time outdoors, I'm not expecting them to get to 18~20, but, they 'do thier thing' and are pretty happy to 'visit ' (although Kat-Kat did dissapear for 6 days earlier this year - came back looking fit and 'talking' to us)
I feel bad too but unfortunately I feed kibbles too! I get it from pet store but its still sad. Only do feed my two dry still because I am trying to get them to eat more wet not because of lack of knowledge of how bad dry food is for them. I didn't know that right away though and would have started sooner. They always have got wet but when switching to adult wet they have become so picky that its hard to get more wet. They eat some but no enough to get rid of dry.I feel so bad every time I see people checking out at the pet store or grocery store, purchasing kibble. I've tried to say something a few times, but it seems comments about feeding pets are not welcome.
And why is it that these same people, when you mention feeding wet food, say "yeah but that's too much trouble" then they talk about the possibility of having children? If feeding cats canned food is "a lot of trouble", just wait until you have kids!
I feel so bad every time I see people checking out at the pet store or grocery store, purchasing kibble. I've tried to say something a few times, but it seems comments about feeding pets are not welcome.
Heh... my mother went to PetCo. with me last weekend, when I was picking out more food for my Shelly, who only gets wet food. Mom had cats when she was a kid, but that was 60+ years ago. It was fun explaining to her how to read a cat food label, especially when I was pointing out all the fillers and grains in Science Diet, and why that food is bad news in general. Too bad we were the only people in the food section at the time.
I feel so bad every time I see people checking out at the pet store or grocery store, purchasing kibble. I've tried to say something a few times, but it seems comments about feeding pets are not welcome.