Guest guest Posted February 16, 2004 Report Share Posted February 16, 2004 Tell me about it! I pay out $40-$50 a month for ONE 85 pound German Shepherd. And it's worth every penny! In three years he's had one non-routine vet visit. Vet is cool on the idea of raw feeding. But when I had him weighed one day and said he was fat as a pig because he had more padding on his ribs than I like, she said, " Oh, he looks GREAT! " Judith Alta -----Original Message----- From: Christie [mailto:christiekeith@...] >> I really don't want to get into buying high quality CLO and such like for them - I don't spend that sort of money on myself! << One thing to think about is this. Cats are obligate carnivores, the most highly specialized eaters in the animal kingdom. Obligate carnivory is also the most expensive diet in the animal kingdom. We keep carnivores as pets in large numbers in this country because we feed them totally inappropriate grain-based diets. This makes feeding them cheap, but we generally lose all those nutritional savings at the vet's office, or in heartbreak. Cats, who can live into their late 20s, are considered " seniors " at 8 or 10 years old. Cats who die at 14 are thought to have lived a good long life. Kidney disease in cats is the NORM now - and diabetes is getting there. When considering how expensive a feline diet is, consider how much it costs to remedy the ill effects on them that a cheaper, less species appropriate diet produces. And consider also how very tiny cats are. While the cost of a carnivorous diet for cats is, pound for pound, more expensive than an appropriate diet for a human being, the absolute cost isn't that much, because cats consume such small amounts. And when feeding them an appropriate, nutrient-dense, diet, ie, not bulking it out with a lot of vegetable matter they don't need and which in fact harms them, you will find they eat even less than you would expect. I always chuckle when talking with cat owners complaining about the cost of feeding a carnivorous diet to their cats. Try feeding a houseful of dogs the size of human beings sometime. <G> Christie Caber Feidh ish Deerhounds Holistic Husbandry Since 1986 http://www.caberfeidh.com/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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