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do you know you're probably feeding your 
cat wrong and according to many Feline 
Veterinary Specialists your Veterinary 
may not be the best source of 
nutritional information for your 
cat are you looking to learn more about 
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Secrets hello welcome back to my channel 
if you're new welcome I'm having a brand 
new webinar on cat health and nutrition 
and you're invited you're going to learn 
what to feed what not to feed Plus my 
most important natural remedies holistic 
options for diabetes kidney disease 
urinary tract disease it's happening 
Tuesday February 13th at 5:00 p.m. 
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What Exactly Should You Be Feeding Your Cat? 
what exactly should you be feeding your 
cat and who do you trust is it your vet 
Dr Lisa Pearson a renowned feline 
veterinarian says this unfortunately 
many veterinarians they are not the best 
source of nutritional advice for your 
cat just putting a little bit of thought 
into what you're feeding your cat that 
can pay huge it ends with a lifetime of 
your cat that may very well help them 
avoid very serious painful and 
life-threatening diseases just like 
medical doctors many veterinarians 
receive very little training in 
nutrition it's not like you can just 
open a cookbook and look it up like okay 
let's feed your cat this and it'll all 
be good unfortunately and this was my 
experience in veterinary school some of 
the large pet food companies they 
actually help sponsor some of our events 
so then you can see how they can 
potentially influence the curriculum in 
terms of what we're taught obviously 
that represents a conflict of interest 
we're taught the dry kibble it's 
completely fine for cats you want to be 
feeding cat foods that are backed by 
science I.E these quality companies like 
Hills cats can do great eating dry 
kibble it's completely fine if a cat 
eats kibble as long as it has enough 
water there is no concern with 
carbohydrates cats they can metabolize 
carbohydrates just fine it turns out 
that much of what I was taught was wrong 
about what you should be feeding your 
cat just take away even the quality of a 
kibble there is no such thing is a high 
quality cat cable I don't care whether 
it's Friskies or if it's Science Diet 
feeding dry cat cable that's associated 
with diabetes kidney disease urinary 
tract disease inflammatory bowel disease 
hair balls obesity hepatic lipidosis 
that's fatty liver disease and dental 
disease dry cat cable it's often 
contaminated bacteria mites mold even 
toxins that alone it could be making 
your cat sick more than you realize here 
Nutritional Facts You Should Be Aware 
are some specific cat nutritional facts 
you should be aware of number one our 
cats evolv as obligate carnivores 
meaning they need animal protein not 
just to thrive but to survive your cat 
cannot get all his nutritional needs 
from a carbohydrate like rice he won't 
get all the essential amino acids and if 
he gets that he's going to be clinically 
sick he'll develop heart disease 
potentially even go blind they've 
developed really unique ways in terms of 
how they utilize the protein the fat the 
minerals in the prairie think about what 
a cat would eat in the wild he's hunting 
mice lots of protein lots of fat minimal 
to no carbohydrates that core concept 
that should be at the Forefront of cat 
nutrition and disease they require way 
more protein compared to dog the canine 
minimum adult protein requirement it is 
12% a cat minimum adult protein 
requirement 
29% cats they evolve as animals with 
very poor triggers for thirst so when 
they're hunting in the wild that's where 
they get most of their moisture they're 
not accustomed to going and drinking 
water out of a bowl they're adapted to 
eating multiple small meals throughout 
the day they might normally eat up to 10 
times in a day and this is really 
important when we think about urinary 
tract disease CU we know when a cat eats 
this many times he's much more likely to 
have a normal urinary pH it's not too 
alkaline because that's what can form 
Strite crystals it's not too acidic 
because that can lead to the form of 
calcium oxalate it's a balanced urinary 
pH just by eating the multiple small 
meals to keep your cat from getting Ur 
inary trct disease cats they're 
especially especially sensitive to the 
feel the smell the taste of the food 
what's the deal about carbohydrates so 
yes your cat can use carbohydrates as an 
energy source but they were not designed 
to utilize them your cat was designed 
for high protein metabolism they're not 
designed to digest this carbohydrates 
they get so much more energy from 
protein than most species cats have a 
very short colon meaning it's really 
difficult for them to break down 
starches and fibers I.E flx seed they 
lack the liver enzyme glucanase that's 
used to break down blood sugar glucose 
let's just say your cat consumes a 
higher carb meal one that includes sweet 
potato his blood sugar is going to spike 
your cat lacks the ability to rapidly 
break that down you have all this blood 
sugar FL letting your cat's body your 
cat can properly metabolize it and use 
it so when this happens their pancreas 
is trying to produce enough insulin it 
can't keep up it can't produce enough 
insulin then what do we see we see our 
cats becoming diabetic do you ever 
wonder why there seems to be an epidemic 
of diabetic cats they're eating too many 
of these they're eating too many 
carbohydrates this dry car loated kibble 
do you know that even many of the cat 
foods that claim to have high protein 
it's a plant protein like 
soy but you know about soy it's a non 
disruptor of thyroid function and 60% of 
all tested cat foods they had soy at a 
high enough level to actually disrupt 
thyroid function so so the companies are 
making it sound like oh it's a good 
quality cat food it's got high protein 
but it's a plant protein and it's a 
plant protein potentially doing harm to 
your cat so let's just summarize this 
well number one most cats they're fed 
Summary of Cat Nutrition 
dry cable with no water predisposing 
them to all those diseases we talked 
about diabetes urinary tract disease 
kidney disease number two foods with too 
high of a carbohydrate level this is 
predisposing your cat to obesity 
diabetes Point number three most cats 
they are fed not enough protein and the 
wrong type of protein often it's a 
plant-based protein such as this soy 
which can do far more harm than good and 
can anyone ever imagine a cat willingly 
eating tofu me no never so what should 
you be feeding your cat you should never 
be feeding your cat dry cat 
kibble you need to get rid of this stuff 
Suggested Food for Cats 
the food you should be feeding it should 
be canned homemade or raw cat food it 
has three things at every cat needs it 
is high protein it is high in moisture 
minimal to no carbohydrates and if you 
can do that one thing it is going to be 
so much better for the long-term 
healthier cat my last cat Murray he was 
a diabetic he was a diabetic because he 
ate so much dry car loaded cat kibble 
High carbohydrates overwhelmed his 
pancreas he became a diabetic and I 
didn't feed Murray the dry cat kibble I 
actually adopted him through the 
Veterinary Clinic he was relinquished as 
he was diagnosed being a diabetic his 
owners were unwilling to treat them the 
next cat I get and it's going to be 
really soon he or she will never be 
eating dry cat kibble thank you so much 
for watching this edition of venery 
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" and "Introduction 
hello everybody i am dr sarah wooten 
thank you so much for taking time to 
watch this video in this video we are 
going to be discussing raw food diets 
for cats ooh controversial 
i'm gonna be sharing my personal opinion 
uh what i i know about it and then 
ultimately the decision is yours what 
you end up doing with your pets so 
let's dive in 
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so let's 
talk about the advantages of feeding raw 
we'll talk about the advantages and then 
we'll talk about some of the concerns 
and the disadvantages okay 
so if you as the pet parent believe that 
Benefit 1: Perceived Improvement in Nutrition 
this diet is the best thing and you want 
to feed it then it's an advantage to you 
to feed it some people like to feed raw 
because they don't they don't think that 
commercial pet food is good for their 
cat and so they want to feed something 
that's more natural right minimal 
processing 
no ingredients that they can't 
understand no brain stuff like that 
Benefit 2: Perceived Health Benefits 
another advantage in my personal 
experience when i have had clients that 
were feeding raw those clients generally 
feel like their cats 
are healthier they just feel like their 
cats are healthier a better energy level 
shinier coat 
cleaner teeth 
less gas normal bowel they think that 
their pets have fewer health problems 
in my experience again this is my 
experience i am one veterinarian among 
hundreds of thousands of veterinarians 
among billions of people right so i here 
i am with my tiny little opinion 
uh my clients my clients and my patients 
that were fed raw and remember these 
people were pretty informed and 
discerning 
they were really healthy these animals 
had really healthy teeth really shiny um 
coats their weights were good they were 
bright uh so i you know even though i 
was raised per se on dry commercial 
foods and there's no problems with that 
i fed my dog commercial food for years i 
do have to look at some of these animals 
and go hmm maybe there's something here 
okay another advantage is a raw diet is 
Benefit 3: It’s an Ancestral Diet 
considered to be what we call like an 
ancestral diet okay and this is actually 
pretty true for cats if you think about 
it 
less than 100 years ago what were these 
cats eating well they weren't eating dry 
food dry commercial food that didn't 
show up until like the 40s or something 
like that no they were out hunting right 
they were hunters they were barn cats 
they helped keep down rodent populations 
and so 
for a cat 
ideally uh you know several small 
rodents and some birds and some 
grasshoppers 
is an ideal diet for them but it's 
pretty impractical right you're not 
going to go out there and you know catch 
a bunch of mice and 
get a bunch of birds and also you know 
the other thing that they struggled with 
obviously is they were hunting so they 
did get a lot of parasites from these so 
the other thing that is good to know 
about these cats that we're hunting is 
that they consume the entire animal 
right so they not only ate the meat but 
they also ate the bones they ate all the 
internal organs including what was in 
the gut and most of their prey were 
herbivores so they were getting fiber 
and berries and other kinds of things 
out of these prey that they're eating 
so that's another advantage it's 
considered to be more ancestral so 
another advantage of feeding raw 
Benefit 4: Higher Levels of Bioactive Compounds 
is that 
these foods are uh considered 
to have higher levels of bioactive 
compounds 
um because when you cook food it does 
break down some stuff right so raw diets 
have higher levels of some antioxidants 
some vitamin e 
some of those flavonoids things like 
that 
because 
they're not cooked it's the same as 
eating raw for a human 
and so 
this could be a benefit right 
and that is another 
possible benefit of feeding raw 
Benefit 5: Improved Immune Function 
feeding raw might might improve immune 
function 
there's a couple of studies out there 
um 
it's not surprising because 
70 it's almost 80 of your immune system 
incl your immune system and your cat's 
immune system is in the gut right 
and it's not surprising that when you 
feed what you feed your cat has an 
effect on their immunity but there have 
been no direct benefits 
shown in any peer-reviewed studies that 
it does improve immune function but it's 
a possibility 
and then again 
in my personal experience 
most of my patients that were fed raw 
had really 
they had healthy body conditions they 
weren't overweight 
uh so 
i'm not sure 
why this is it could be that the food 
was more expensive so the clients were 
more conscientious about how much they 
were feeding 
i'm not sure 
so the other thing is 
Benefit 6: May Help Chronic Health Issues 
uh that 
sometimes if there is a chronic medical 
problem for a cat that has say food 
allergies 
to some of the more common proteins out 
there 
switching to a raw food could be 
helpful in solving medical problems 
right 
and this could include things like 
recurrent vomiting and diarrhea 
recurrent itchy skin or ear infections 
things like that right 
so 
maybe 
maybe feeding raw can help some of these 
animals that are suffering from that 
stuff 
uh in cats um they actually do get some 
additional 
uh gas and diarrhea by feeding too much 
of the dietary carbs 
because a cat's gut is different than a 
human's gut or a dog's gut human's gut 
and dog's gut looks very similar to each 
other a cat has a very short gut and 
that is uh because they are a carnivore 
right and so sugars that aren't 
completely digested because they didn't 
have enough time to get through the 
shorter gut 
can cause problems in the colon 
including gas 
runny stool things like that okay 
however having said that there are no 
peer-reviewed articles that show 
significant medical benefits from 
feeding raw diets they're just not out 
there nobody's doing them 
there's a lot of non-peer-reviewed and 
what that means is that a bunch of 
doctors get together and they read it 
and then they talk about it and they 
decide whether it's true or not right 
and then they publish it in a medical 
journal there are a lot of 
non-peer-reviewed studies that suggest 
that pets cats that have 
food allergies or allergies in general 
or problems with their gut either 
vomiting or diarrhea 
or cancer 
right certain types of cancer 
those articles suggest that feeding raw 
might help these cats but there are no 
objective controlled studies out there 
so i can't say one way or the other but 
i can tell you what i've seen on the web 
okay 
um what i have found again is 
some of my raw patients they just seem 
to do really well so now that we've 
Concern 1: Potential for Nutritional Imbalances 
talked about the advantages let's talk 
about some of the possible disadvantage 
one of the main disadvantages or one of 
the main concerns that you know people 
like me the veterinarian has is that the 
food is not complete and balanced 
according to the association of american 
feed control officials afco right and 
it's according to their nutrition 
profiles 
so 
that can lead to malnutrition over time 
and that's when people are wanting to 
feed raw but they don't get the guidance 
of a board-certified nutritionist to 
create their recipes 
so it's really important to know that if 
you are going to 
feed your pet raw 
that you have to um you have to get all 
the vitamins and minerals in there 
because a muscle based food 
is is not high enough in vitamins and 
minerals so you have to add vegetables 
the calcium phosphorus ratio has to be 
right 
and only a few pet food raw pet food 
manufacturers 
have done the feeding trials which is 
considered the gold standard to achieve 
that afco certification but even if it 
says formulated by afco standards to be 
complete and balanced it's okay but 
that's the number one concern is it 
complete balanced oh we don't know right 
Concern 2: Homemade Raw Takes a Lot of Time 
then there is also the concern for how 
much it's time it's going to take 
to make the food 
as we talked about already it just takes 
more time to do raw 
Concern 3: It’s Expensive 
there is the concerns about how much 
it's going to cost 
Concern 4: Some Cats Don’t Tolerate It 
um 
some pets don't tolerate raw food 
there's something in their gut that just 
doesn't do well with it and they they 
have problems so that's another concern 
Concern 5: Safety 
and then one of the big concerns uh is 
obviously safety my priorities are your 
safety and your pets safety 
so most cats can handle a small amount 
of bacteria that's it and most of the 
time the bacteria is in ground meat 
ground meat 
most of the time the acid in their 
stomach actually kills it but again 
safety safety safety we don't want to 
feed raw food to any cat that has a 
suppressed immune system 
because of disease or because of 
medications like steroids that they're 
on also 
cats that have a moderately advanced 
kidney disease 
heart disease 
liver problems 
diabetes and i think cancer as well are 
really i would say not the best 
candidates for raw food and again that's 
just my opinion 
one person out of eight billion okay uh 
so but if you want to feed 
that 
some of these raw foods can actually be 
cooked and you can add the vitamins so 
there are still options available to you 
if your pet has any of those conditions 
but please please please 
consult with a veterinarian and a 
nutritionist before you put them on 
those diets just to make sure that above 
all you're not doing any harm right then 
there's the safety for you for you my 
Safety with Raw Cat Food 
friends i'm also concerned so ground 
meat and raw eggs those can those carry 
pathogens those carry pathogens in human 
food just as in pet food so 
it's the same thing now if you freeze 
the raw food if you dehydrate it or you 
freeze dry it there is lower levels of 
bacteria 
but 
there are still some bacteria that 
survive so this is 
not any good this is a definite no-no if 
your household has anybody who is 
pregnant or is planning to be pregnant 
if you have very young children under 
the age of five if you have very old 
people or if you have people who have a 
suppressed immune system okay 
you can actually 
go online you can go to the cdc 
and find all kinds of recommendations on 
how to handle raw food obviously you 
always gonna want to wash your 
hands after you are handling raw food 
and you also want to wash your hands 
after you're picking up the poop because 
these are the main 
times when you could possibly be exposed 
to any kind of pathogenic bacteria 
right and so we always want safety first 
having said that 
again most of the people who feed this 
raw food either commercial or home 
prepared 
you guys are informed and you are safety 
conscious you you practice 
good safe handling food handling you 
dispose of their feces and you wash your 
hands all good things right so wash your 
hands it's always good uh so the thing 
In Conclusion 
is is 
there's a lot of different opinions out 
there 
on raw food 
and if you're curious about it i would 
definitely encourage you to get more 
information on it 
and talk to a board 
veterinary 
person 
somebody who's trained in nutrition to 
help you create 
those recipes 
the other alternative is you can just 
find the commercial raw foods that are 
complete and balanced 
for all i've seen all life stages and 
then practice your your safe food 
handling techniques 
and then just see how your pet does 
right 
um if they don't do well you can always 
go back to dry uh if they do well then 
yay right and the other thing is is to 
know that some veterinarians are not 
comfortable or 
they're not really into the raw thing 
and so sometimes those conversations can 
be a little awkward but don't be afraid 
to tell your veterinarian what you're 
feeding this is your pet 
you are in the driver's seat we are here 
simply here to advise you okay so that's 
all i have to say about feeding raw in 
cats uh if 
this has been helpful or if you have 
comments or concerns 
uh then leave them in the comments 
section underneath this video 
and if there's a topic you would like me 
to cover put that down there as well i 
hope this has been helpful 
and i hope that you and your cat live 
well live long and live happy thank you 
so much for watching i will see you guys 
next time 
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