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It's probably true to say that most people who enjoy the company of cats in their home are particularly conscious of providing good cat health care.
Optimising good cat heath care will not only provide your cat with the potential of a long life, but also of a healthy, carefree one, too. It's very satisfying to see your cat happy, healthy and enjoying life.
What is the single most important thing you can do to ensure the your cat enjoys the best health?
Is it immunising your cat against all the common or known feline diseases?
Is it keeping your cat indoors, away from potential hazards such as fighting or car accidents?
Is it having them sterilised?
Perhaps it's in keeping their sexuality entire?
Could it be ensuring their teeth are clean?
What about providing a loving, secure and safe home?
There are probably as many opinions about what's important in cat health care as there are people!
Important though some of the above are, I don't think any of them are as important to optimise good cat health as something that they do every day.
Eating!
Diet and nutrition are of top priority in maintaining the health of your cat. To my mind, this is the single most important aspect in maintaining anyone's health., not just for your cat
You may be feeding your cat a top cat food, recommended by your veterinarian. You may feel that, with all the advertising, proprietary brands are the best cat food. But are they?
We all know that advertising makes hollow promises, as the advertiser is more concerned with making money than giving you the facts.
But surely you can trust your veterinarian. Can't you?
Did you know that the top pet food manufacturers financially contribute to veterinary colleges? I may be old fashioned, but to me that means the colleges aren't completely impartial. After all, you don't bite the hand that feeds you.
I suspect, that since you have reached this article, you're searching for another way to improve your cats' health, other than that recommended by your veterinarian - which is invariably everyone's first choice.
Contrary to popular belief, and to most vets who sell processed food, it is the processed food itself which wreaks such havoc with cat health. Cats evolved by hunting animals and consuming most of it immediately.
Their digestive system has evolved to cope with this. Cooked, processed, preservatives and the very low grade meat by-products which are the basis for the majority of proprietary cat food on the market, is the single, most damaging factor in the deteriorating health of your cat.
If your cat gets all his nutrition from raw food, you will see a remarkable transformation in a matter of days.
But you need to get the balance right. You need to get the quantity and variety right for a good, all round balanced diet. Otherwise you could run the very real risk of one or more deficiencies. A serious deficiency can be fatal.
And you need to know about the de-toxing effect a change to a good diet entails.
When I first started introducing raw food to my cats, it was fraught with difficulties. I made mistake after mistake. After studying and applying various other therapists ways, I finally worked out what worked and what didn't. What they said was right and what just couldn't work.
So I wrote a book about cat health, based on my own experiences. I wish I'd had it before I embarked on that particular adventure. It would have saved me so much anxt.
When you address this so very important aspect of cat health, the spin off is enormous - professional therapist fees are cut back drastically.
Is there anyone alive who doesn't love a win-win situation?
Madeleine Innocent is a practicing homeopath, a specialised modality of natural health care. She treats both people and animals in her busy West Australian practice. Madeleine loves to spread the good work of homeopathy and other areas of natural health care and writes extensively on the subject.For a complimentary ebook on how to have a healthy cat, starting today, visit http://www.naturallyhealthycats.com or http://www.bestcathealth.blogspot.com
Where can I buy RAID?
I am in the middle of a flea infestation and I'm going insane! I can't even sleep in my apartment, they're everywhere! Truly, I tried to prevent it from getting this bad. I vacuumed everyday, used natural sprays, bathed my cats three times a week, used flea collars, ADVANTAGE One-Spot Treatment, anything I could get... But obviously none of that worked and now it's to the point where I need to bomb the apartment ASAP! I want to get RAID Max Concentrated DEEP REACH Fogger and Flea Killer PLUS Carpet Spray but I can't seem to find them anywhere! I live on Vancouver Island and I've look at Wal-Mart, Superstore, Home Depot, RONA even.... And I can't find anything, not any RAID products! Does anyone know of anywhere else I can try or will I have to go to the mainland? I really don't want to have to do that because for my boyfriend and I to go in a vehicle its almost $50 each way. PLEASE HELP! I'm DESPERATE!
PS - I know RAID is not exactly safe, but at this point I have no choice. My cats and I are absolutely miserable and on the day where I can bomb my apartment I'm going to get them a professional flea treatment (possibly a dip) and air out my apartment for an hour after the fogger is finished. I think then it won't harm us.. I really didn't want to do this because I'd never want to endanger my cats' health in the least but this is not livable, I feel like I'm slowly getting eaten alive.
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Blood in eyes, dialated pupils and lethargic cat?? HELP!?
To start off I will explain this condition as it progressed. We were out of town overnight and got home late the next day to Ted, our domestic Smokey Black cat sitting there to greet us. He seemed completely fine. The next day we were petting him and he was shedding pretty badly, more than normal. I didn't think too much of it, as he was acting normal otherwise. The following day I left for work and Ted was fast asleep on the couch. I returned on lunch and he was in the exact same spot he was in before I left. I checked his food and he hadn't eaten anything. I checked him over and again he seemed normal. When I finally returned home from work for the day he was again in the same spot on the couch. This did not seem like him at all. My boyfriend got home and we started to do some investigating around the house and on Ted. His right eye seemed to be slightly closed more than the other,but overall looked fine. He was still shedding pretty badly. We decided we should take him to the vet in the morning, and we did.
I called the vet later in the day to check up on him and she said his right eye was completely dialated and it looked to have a spot of blood on it. They wanted to run a bunch of tests, which she said would cost me over $200, which I could not afford right at the moment. I got off work and went in to the vet to talk to her. She explained that she understood and throughout the course of the day he seemed to be getting better and that she recommended that we buy antibiotics and triple antibiotic ointment for his eye. We did and have been treating him for the past 5 days.
Needless to say his eyes have gotten worse. Before I take him back I would like to know if anyone has any insight on this condition. I want to make sure I do not get taken at the Vet if I need to get him treated. I'm also concerned that if this was serious, would they have seen it when I took him in originally? I understand that things happen and if it took certain things for him to get better than I would have most certainly found a way to pay for them, but she didn't seem concerned and said the antibiotics were what they had planned on treating him with originally anyway.
Please, if anyone knows more about this I would really appreciate some information. Like I said, I do not want to jeopordize my cats health in any way but I also cannot afford to be mislead.
Sincerely,
Ted's Mom
P.S. I did not know if I could post pics on here, but I took some today so if you would like to see them to help with any diagnosis' please e-mail me. Thanks!
I would like to add that I am not searching for the absolute answer, I am just putting my feelers out for anyone who might have run across this problem with their cat and knew what treatments were used. I am planning on taking him back to the vet, I just didn't want to walk in there in the dark on this because as we all know not all vets are honest or cheap! Your comments are muchly appreciated!!
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Cat neutered and ear tipped without permission?
We have 2 male cats we had on a waiting list to get neutered and we went on vacation while we were gone a neighbor boy who was suppose to be checking on the cats let them out. When we came home our cats were missing for a week and we were crushed thinking we had lost them. Come to find out they were taken by a group the landlord brought into the neighborhood to get rid of strays. They were neutered and the top part of their ear was cut off. Now sadly our one cat is so traumatized he wont come anywhere near any humans including my daughter who was his best friend. So now he is a stray because we can not catch him to feed him, clean him or take him to the vet. Our other cat was a beautiful Maine Coon who has been permanently scared and is also skittish. No notice was put up and both of our cats had their collars and tags, Also both of our cats are well known and loved by all the kids in the neighborhood so the landlord can not claim he did not know. My question is can I have them arrested for taking my cat and mutilating them without permission? The neuter is not the biggest problem all though I wish I had known so I could make sure it was done with my cats health in mind but my problem is the ear and also the trauma to the cats.
It is not my fault as my cats were on the property and clearly marked with collars and tags thank you very much.
They were on a waiting list as we living in a small town that has only one vet in 50 sq miles. In order to get a cat neutered unless you want to drive him 60 miles to the city he has to go on a waiting list. This group was brought in from the city rounded up 20+ cats in 3 different neighborhoods and did it themselves. Both cats had collars with current tags and like I said are well known in the neighborhood. We do not have a stray problem. We have a lot of cats that are owned and loved that run around as there are no confinement laws and we live in the country. We have one single stray that was left by a neighbor when she moved but we all care for him. My cats were not forced to live outside. They are indoor/outdoor cats and we were only on vacation for 3 days. They were trapped, sliced up, burned and thrown back in the neighborhood 5 days later. My cats are not the only one it happened too. Every male cat in the neighborhood had it done. Including cats with microchips. We have had is
My cats were on MY property out in the middle of no where not roaming around. I know they did not try to contact me as I had my cell on and the landlord has the number as well as other people who were their were not contacted. My cats were not neutered not because I just didn't feel like it but assume whatever you like because it makes you look judge mental. My cats are loved and well taken care of. Them roaming my property in the middle of the country does not pester anyone and keep cats in at all times is cruel and unnatural. You wouldn't force your dogs to stay in 24/7 because they NEED to be out and permitted to run but yet you claim keeping another animal caged is right. How horrible of you people! My cats had their tags and so therefore were clearly not strays. I did not ask for your judgment I asked about legal rights. Go find something better to do then pass judgement on someone you don't know. Have a nice day.
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