Natural Cat Food - Seven Good Reasons Why Nature Is Best! Feeding your cat an all natural cat food diet will improve your cats health, boost her immune system and make her more happier. If you knew what went into most, if not all, commercial pet food, you would never buy it again. Truly, it’s not for the faint hearted.

Most commercial pet food ingredients are cheap, as the better quality food goes for the higher priced human food market. Cheap food can mean anything from high fat content, meat by-products (hair, intestinal contents, chicken feet, rancid fat, dead or diseased animals), to low grade carbohydrates such as sugar, left over fast food or spoilt grain unfit for human consumption to the melamine used to bulk out American pet food imported from China.

None of this is normal or natural cat food and much of it is indigestible, so can you wonder that overall, cats health is on the decline

What can you do about it?

The first and most important thing to do is change your cat’s diet to a homemade, raw cat diet, all natural cat food, for seven good reasons

1 Cats evolved on raw food over millions of years. They are best able to use this diet over all others.

2 Raw food contains all the essential vitamins, minerals, enzymes, amino acids and other nutrients, in the right amount, in a balanced form. Cooking destroys many essential nutrients.

3 Unlike processed cat food, natural cat food is easy to absorb and the cat utilises it efficiently.

4 An all natural cat food diet ensures your cat has healthy teeth and gums. Despite the claims, no processed cat food does this.

5 Parasites such as worms, fleas and ticks are minimal when you feed your cat this diet, as the environment of your cat’s body is not conducive to them. This is the opposite of processed food which makes your cat’s body a feeding ground for parasites.

6 All keeps your cats immune system in good working order, so reducing or preventing many diseases, particularly the serious ones.

7 A hunting domestic cat is usually doing so to address an imbalance in their diet. A natural diet reduces a cat’s desire to hunt.

Whatever the health of your cat is like at the moment, changing her diet to all will go a long way to the prognosis of her condition. However, it isn’t just a matter of substituting her processed food for raw meat. There are some important rules to follow and tips to consider.

Madeleine Innocent is a practicing homeopath, a specialised modality of alternative medicine. 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.

FABULOUS FISHBALLS

3 baby carrots, cooked until soft

16 oz canned tuna in olive oil, drained

2 oz cooked herring, skin removed

2 tbl whole grain bread crumbs or oatmeal

2-3 tbl grated cheese

2 tsp brewer's yeast

Several pinches of chopped catnip

1 egg, beaten

2 tbl tomato paste (not ketchup)

Preheat the oven to 350*. Mash the carrots with the fish, bread

crumbs or oatmeal, cheese, brewer's yeast, catnip, egg and tomato

paste to an even paste. Mold into small balls and put on a greased

baking tray. Bake for 15-20 minutes, checking frequently: the fish

balls should be golden brown and feel firm. Cool thoroughly.

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