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Or your cat for that matter.
I worked for many years as a vet, treating pets. There is a massive increase in the number of obese pets and diabetic pets and they were a common sight in the waiting room. What did we do? Blamed their owners for feeding them too much and not walking them, told their owners that the pet's constant craving for food was not hunger but greed. You know, the usual stuff (guff) that fat people are told too.
I am now ashamed to admit that our first step in treating them was to put them on a special diet - even higher in carbs and lower in fat than the one they were already eating. These are carnivores - I feel so bad thinking of it and how wrong it was. But almost all I ever learned about pet nutrition I learned from pet food companies, and I believed it all. Duh.
Since I have been on Atkins I've been thinking about this a lot, and I've changed my own dog and two cats to a mainly raw meat diet for the last 5-6 months. They are as healthy as it is possible for animals to be. My dog is very old, he's somewhere over 14 and could be as old as 18, not sure because he is a rescue. He was looking his age and seemed to be feeling it. He isn't now, he is fit as a fiddle and his coat is magnificent. He is almost totally blind but that doesn't hold him back a bit - he flies around like a greyhound.
Have any of you thought about this? How feeding carnivores dried food which is very high carb and low fat - as all dried foods even premium ones and almost all tinned foods are - is potentially affecting your pet's health. They are carnivores after all, in the wild they don't eat a lot of carbs and can survive on none at all quite happily.
I really think that the pet food industry and their total hold over nutrition education is as bad if not worse than then the human food one. Almost every chair of animal nutrition in Veterinary faculties the world over is sponsored by one or other food company. It's a real closed world, where the dogma is that formulated high carb food is the best thing to feed your pet. I believed it. I don't any more.
I worked for many years as a vet, treating pets. There is a massive increase in the number of obese pets and diabetic pets and they were a common sight in the waiting room. What did we do? Blamed their owners for feeding them too much and not walking them, told their owners that the pet's constant craving for food was not hunger but greed. You know, the usual stuff (guff) that fat people are told too.
I am now ashamed to admit that our first step in treating them was to put them on a special diet - even higher in carbs and lower in fat than the one they were already eating. These are carnivores - I feel so bad thinking of it and how wrong it was. But almost all I ever learned about pet nutrition I learned from pet food companies, and I believed it all. Duh.
Since I have been on Atkins I've been thinking about this a lot, and I've changed my own dog and two cats to a mainly raw meat diet for the last 5-6 months. They are as healthy as it is possible for animals to be. My dog is very old, he's somewhere over 14 and could be as old as 18, not sure because he is a rescue. He was looking his age and seemed to be feeling it. He isn't now, he is fit as a fiddle and his coat is magnificent. He is almost totally blind but that doesn't hold him back a bit - he flies around like a greyhound.
Have any of you thought about this? How feeding carnivores dried food which is very high carb and low fat - as all dried foods even premium ones and almost all tinned foods are - is potentially affecting your pet's health. They are carnivores after all, in the wild they don't eat a lot of carbs and can survive on none at all quite happily.
I really think that the pet food industry and their total hold over nutrition education is as bad if not worse than then the human food one. Almost every chair of animal nutrition in Veterinary faculties the world over is sponsored by one or other food company. It's a real closed world, where the dogma is that formulated high carb food is the best thing to feed your pet. I believed it. I don't any more.
but didn't tell us that the hormonal changes would make her eat more and she could gain weight.
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