Cats are carnivores. They are designed get all the nutrients they need by eating whole herbivorous animals: meat, bones, guts, the lot! Pet Plus supplies the missing nutrients, bridging the gap between what they’re designed to eat and what we feed them.
In The Wild
Herbivores spend much of their time chewing vegetable matter into a pulp to improve its digestibility, so their guts are full of very well chewed, partially digested vegetation and numerous healthy bacteria (probiotics). By consuming the gut contents of these animals, cats obtain the vast range of nutrients and micronutrients present in vegetation which would otherwise be inaccessible to them. Cats are not grazing animals and have neither the teeth nor the digestive system to cope with eating vegetation, so they let the herbivores do the hard work of chewing, fermenting and digesting grass all day! Then they leap out and catch one! How efficient!
Pet Plus And Raw Food
When we feed raw food to our cats, we rarely feed them a whole animal, so they are missing out on the gut contents and all those fabulous nutrients and probiotics. Mixing Pet Plus for Cats in with their raw meat and bone makes up for this by providing the nutrients, micronutrients and probiotics of this ‘grass soup’ in a more civilized form.
Pet Plus And Processed foods
Processed foods are more difficult for cats to digest as most of the nutrients and micronutrients are damaged or lost during processing. The enzymes in Pet Plus for Cats help with this digestive process, making the nutrients in the food more accessible to your cat.
Being highly evolved carnivores, cats rely heavily on protein and fat for their metabolism and good health. Unfortunately, most commercial cat foods consist of a combination of cereals, fats and meat proteins, all of which have been damaged by the heat processing. The supplemental enzymes in Pet Plus for Cats work with your cat’s own digestive enzymes to help to ensure that your cat receives the maximum amount of nutrition available from the food eaten.
Cereals
In the wild, cats would only consume cereals in a partially digested state from the guts of their prey, combined with other vegetation and numerous enzymes. They would not choose to eat cereals themselves and certainly not cooked cereals! The ProCerealase and Amylase enzymes in Pet Plus address this need, helping cats to digest these unnatural foods.
Proteins And Fats
Heat processing makes many of the nutrients difficult to digest, especially proteins. The Protease enzymes in Pet Plus help with the digestion of these damaged proteins, enabling cats to access these essential nutrients. Likewise, the Lipase enzymes aid the digestion of the fats. Pet Plus also supplies a well balanced, easily assimilated source of omega 3,6 and 9 from flax seed and safflower.
The feline gastro-intestinal tract is extremely short and ingested foods move quickly through it, making digestibility highly critical for cats. The enzyme formula in Pet Plus for Cats provides high potency, multiple enzymes which help to replace the food enzyme activity lost in the cooking and processing of food.
The whole food based ingredients in Pet Plus for Cats supply a great range of natural phytonutrients, antioxidants, vitamins and mineral which work synergistically to protect your cat.
About Susanna
Hi there, I have cats and one dog as well as two children 4 and 1. Two of my cats have been diagnosed with cancer. The first Lumos was diagnosed in October 2007 with intestinal Lymphoma. We were told at the Glasgow Veterinary school that he had 4 months with or without chemo so we decided that to put him through Chemo in his last 4 months would just be cruel. Lumos was 9 on the 13th March I am happy to say and yet his diet has remained the same chicken, sheba and dried food. Our girl Kisi was recently diagnosed with mamary cancer and the prognosis isn’t good at all and the lumps are getting noticable larger. Is there anything I can give her and feed my cats on to help protect them in the future??? I do want to make the transition to raw for the cats and dog and didn’t think my pets would be susceptible to cancer as their diet was good all things considered but I no longer feed dried food no matter how good the brand!
Thanks in advance,
Valerie and the furry clan
Thanks for your comment Valerie.
Definitely changing onto raw food is the right thing to do. I’d also suggest adding Pet Plus which is an excellent source of antioxidants and numerous other really important micronutrients, all in the natural balance of whole food, so not isolated or man-made. This is important because scientists are discovering new micronutrients in natural, raw foods all the time. So far, they’ve identified over 15,000! We now know that every vitamin, for example, needs loads of other co-factors and supporting micronutrients to enable it to work effectively. We need the whole orchestra of natural vitamins, minerals, antioxidants and so on to work together synergistically. I could go on…..!
Like you, I used to think that good brands of processed foods were the best thing to feed our pets, but learnt I was wrong the hard way. However good the brand of processed pet food is, it is still processed which denatures all the nutrients, especially the proteins. This makes the food difficult to digest, detoxify and absorb.
The food a carnivore is biologically adapted to eat is other animals! We can provide a similar diet by feeding raw meat and bone, Pet Plus and some liquidized greens (which in nature would have been chewed to a pulp by the prey animal).
There are quite a few manufacturers of good quality raw meat and bone minces now which makes it nice and easy for us to feed natural raw food to our carnivorous pets. The two I know best are Natural Instinct and Darling’s. They deliver frozen packs to your door and will send you samples! It doesn’t get much easier than that, does it? When you look at their web sites, you’ll see they do vegetable free recipes too, so you can add a teaspoonful of liquidized greens into your cats’ bowl of food and more than that to your dog’s bowl. I actually feed their meat and bone and vegetable mixtures to my dogs and cats with liquidized greens and Pet Plus mixed in and they’re all thriving!
Remember, variety is the spice of life! It’s essential to vary the types of food too, so chicken one day, lamb another, perhaps rabbit on another day. In the wild, they wouldn’t have eaten, say, chicken every day. They’d eat whatever they could either catch or find.
I’d also recommend you filter your water, to get rid of the chemicals. It’s better for all the members of the family, people and pets alike.
To minimize their chemical intake, I also use a natural herbal wormer, Verm-x as a treat every day. The cats and dogs love it. I give it to them every evening when I say goodnight. Since I started feeding raw with Pet Plus in 1996, my pets haven’t had any problems with fleas either, yet another expensive chemical we don’t need!
I hope that helps you. I look forward to more comments!
Suzi