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Vitamin D - to supplement or not to supplement
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If you’re feeding a complete food, there’s no need to add vitamin d into your cat’s diet, unless they have a health condition that requires it.
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Essentially I do agree with this, it's hard to gauge the nutritional value from a can of food - having to trust what they write as being accurate, when this may or may not be the case. Just putting this here for reference for anyone who would like some insight. What may appear to be *adequate* might not be so for a nutritionally-compromised feline.
Signs of Nutrient Deficiencies in Cats by Gloria Fox ThePets
Gloria Fox is a Senior Content Editor at ThePet. Cats need a good diet to live a long, happy, and healthy life. People often do not contact a veterinary nutritionist for their food formulation but instead rely on pet food companies for their pet food. Most companies claim that their pet food is...
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Vitamin D (like A and E) is fat soluble, and there is a real risk of overdose that could cause liver damage.
Just because we take vitamin supplements ourselves sometimes does not mean that our cats need them.
If you are feeding a good complete cat food then it will contain all the vitamins and minerals they need and you do not need to add supplements, and adding fat soluble ones like vitamins A, D, and E could be dangerous. They do not need more and overdose of those is real and damaging.
Just because we take vitamin supplements ourselves sometimes does not mean that our cats need them.
If you are feeding a good complete cat food then it will contain all the vitamins and minerals they need and you do not need to add supplements, and adding fat soluble ones like vitamins A, D, and E could be dangerous. They do not need more and overdose of those is real and damaging.
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I don't know - this is what has been said above as well - and again - how do you know that what they write on a label is accurate - across the board?
Mislabeled Pet Food: Are Your Pets at Risk?
Regulations require that labels accurately disclose the ingredients in food items. But is this also true in pet food? Apparently, the answer is no. A just published study found that 40 percent of pet food may be mislabeled. Learn more.
www.petmd.com
If you really think your cat might be Vitamin D deficient, there is a blood test available to check for that.
The second link to the Petmd article is about ingredients in food, not vitamin and mineral supplements.
Your vet can do blood work to determine if your cat has a deficiency in any vitamin or mineral and come up with a plan on how to treat any deficiencies. Over supplementing a cat with vitamins and minerals when there is no deficiency can do more harm than good.
Your vet can do blood work to determine if your cat has a deficiency in any vitamin or mineral and come up with a plan on how to treat any deficiencies. Over supplementing a cat with vitamins and minerals when there is no deficiency can do more harm than good.
