In the wild, dogs and cats consume bones, muscle tissue, organs, viscera, and some incidental hair and feathers in the process. Even the fermenting partially-digested vegetation-filled contents of the digestive tract are consumed. Although not every component is eaten at every meal, little is wasted.
That is why it is a mistake to assume that carnivores just need meat. Many vital nutrients are found outside of muscle tissue.
A diet exclusively of raw meat, or any single component of prey, is unnatural and leads to nutrient imbalances. For example, a diet exclusively of meat will have excess phosphorous and a deficiency of calcium. The normal ratio of calcium to phosphorus is about 1.2:1. Muscle meat alone has a ratio of about 1:20. Obviously a twenty fold mismatch in these minerals will eventually have disastrous results, such as metabolic and bone abnormalities.
Whole and varied nutrition is the wild natural model to follow to achieve the best pet food. If you would like to consult state of the art medical and nutritional science, there it is, right in nature, not in universities or pet food manufacturing and testing facilities.
Video: The 10 Million Dollar Cat
The incredible story of "Super Stationmaster" Tama, a cat in Japan, who is singlehandedly responsible for the economic revitalization of a trainline and town.
Thought for the day: "If having a soul means being able to feel love and loyalty and gratitude, then animals are better off than a lot of humans." James Herriot
Phrase for the day: 'fructooligosaccharide' - a class of oligosaccharides (short chains of carbohydrates) derived from fruits and vegetables. Simply speaking, fructooligosaccharides are naturally occurring fructose sugar chains that exert a prebiotic effect in the intestinal tract.
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