My kitten is panting?!

[Alldara]

Its the carbohydrates in the dry food that are bad for cats. Check out the site Catinfo.org. it goes into great detail about the benefits of canned over dry and the lack of schooling that veterinarians are given regarding diets.

I'm not advocating for a full dry diet which can be unsafe. Just that a portion of dry, especially when your cat will crunch it, is beneficial to healthy cats.

I believe I mentioned this before but I note that catinfo .org has not been updated since 2016 and reflects no new information. It's fine to have theories, but I'd expect with the many recent studies, there'd have been an update since then or a note on the potential dangers of legumes.

It doesn't quote a single study or provide direction on where her information comes from. She gives no primary sources which is the #1 problem with these expert opinions. They state them like facts and expect us to follow blindly.

There's also a lot on the internet from other veterinarians about the author writing misinformation. Other veterinarians call her website an opinion blog. She's been given backlash regarding providing misinformation on medications as well on the same blog. So I can't say she's a trustworthy author.

Therefore I don't refer to catinfo .org. It cant pass a basic source credibility test.

 

[silent meowlook]

She gets backlash from other vets because she speaks against the prescription veterinary diets, and that ticks off most of the veterinary community. HILLS Science diet does allot for veterinary students. They also fund most of the veterinary conferences and diet studies. Royal Canin, and Purina do as well but not to the extent of HILLS.

Veterinarians are not taught much about nutrition in school. There are boarded internal medicine specialists that will tell you they have limited nutritional knowledge.

If I make decisions, when faced with conflicting information, I always consider what would happen in nature. Then I also access 30+ years of veterinary hospital employment history, as well as personal cat experience, and consider the recommendations of experts in their field. I take all that information and do what I think is best. I only recommend or offer advice that I have had allot of proven experience with.

When you think of cats left to their own devices in a natural state, they would eat many small meat meals a day. They would not eat carbohydrates, other than those found in their small meat meals. All dry cat food is high in carbohydrates.

Kibble does not promote healthy teethe, nor do dental treats. I have seen many a cats fed kibble, even veterinary dental diets that needed extensive dental work done by age 4. As for cats in a natural state without human intervention probably wouldn’t make it past 5, if even that old.

I have witnessed many obese cats that returned to a healthy weight with the only change being made was switching to canned diet and discontinuing dry.

I have seen far to many cats with IBD and LSA due to a chronic inflammation of their GI from dry food either the carbohydrates or other additives in dry food show significant improvement when switched to a canned only diet.

I have seen many cats with unregulated diabetes on prescription veterinary diabetic dry diets, on insulin, go into remission, eliminating the need for insulin, when switched to a commercial canned cat food.

I have seen many blocked cats that have re-blocked, even after a PU surgery, do far better when fed a canned diet.

I could go on about this, but I won’t. I am just pointing out that what is written on that site is as good today as it was when she wrote it. I don’t agree with all of it. I think raw diets, while great, cause to much of a health risk to cats and people. And also, anyone who goes against the current will always get backlash.

There are extremely limited studies on cat nutrition and the ones available have conflicting information. Also, if you read the fine print, many are funded by the veterinary diet company’s.

One thing to note, I feed my cats the evil veterinary diet ( canned) because for my cats problems it is the only solution. I am not saying to never feed veterinary diets, if your vet recommends them, of course do, but make sure it is the canned variety, not dry.

 

[Alldara]

If you get the chance to check out the study I posted, it links to many peer reviewed studies on food and attempts to consolidate all the information we have currently.

It's very interesting, as it speaks on the correlations vs causations of the issues.

I'm not ragging on anyone's opinion. I'm just saying that without scientific studies to back anything up, it's just opinion.

I would be more than happy to intake any new information from a reputable source or new study. There is always going to be bias. But I can't go off of a single old website with no primary sources, from an author who has been reprimanded for spreading misinformation, not just on nutrition, but about medications and other things.

Funding is just one aspect of where bias can come from. That's why I use the website where I find peer-reviewed studies to ensure that the studies are sound.

 

[silent meowlook]

If you get the chance to check out the study I posted, it links to many peer reviewed studies on food and attempts to consolidate all the information we have currently.

It's very interesting, as it speaks on the correlations vs causations of the issues.

I'm not ragging on anyone's opinion. I'm just saying that without scientific studies to back anything up, it's just opinion.

I would be more than happy to intake any new information from a reputable source or new study. There is always going to be bias. But I can't go off of a single old website with no primary sources, from an author who has been reprimanded for spreading misinformation, not just on nutrition, but about medications and other things.

Funding is just one aspect of where bias can come from. That's why I use the website where I find peer-reviewed studies to ensure that the studies are sound.

I did. You realize it was written in 2008 with references dating back to 1977.
Anyway, this post is about a kitten panting, not a dry vs canned cat food debate, so I will stop.

 

[rentuna]

Well my only issue was with the thing that my dear Luke got urinary and then kidney issues from dry. With Diego I try to keep him on wet and dry and occasional home made. Will see