No, but I sure do remember Catherine Vida Jones!!

For feeding your cats you might want to contact Dr. Lisa Pierson. I use her recipe to feed my cats (including two starting when they were 7 months old). I got my vet to approve the recipe and both the youngsters are hale and hearty at almost 2 years old now.

http://www.catinfo.org/

I’ve emailed her a couple of times and she is always kind and responsive.

I’ve gone through the diabetes nightmare with my oldest that I lost a couple of years ago. I can say categorically he was a diabetic becuase we did not know better and raised him on dry commercial food. But I digress and get on my soapbox.

Check out her site and if you have questions on their age, email her.

I started shopping at EarthFare when I moved to Greenville a few years ago. It was great to find your store close to where I lived that offered the products I like – organic, environmentally friendly, etc. Over the years I have shopped at many natural/organic groceries and I feel it is my way of voting with my pocketbook. There is one thing that I am paying attention to now in almost all the stores (yours too) is bothering me.

That is, plastic. Plastic grocery bags, produce bags, product containers, salad bar cutlery, the list goes on. What would your company do if it had to manage the plastic trash that resulted from all the sales in all of your stores? If we, as consumers, had the option to just return the plastic to the store and drop it off. Recycle? Still toxic, still uses energy, still makes more plastic. Have you heard of the Pacific Gyre and the mound of garbage in the middle of the ocean?

Please visit these websites and let me know how your company is thinking about ways to reduce waste. I am going to make an earnest effort to stop buying plastic and things that are sold in plastic. It will be difficult – I love shampoo, bath products, beauty products, organic grape tomatoes, cheese, yogurt, acai beverages. What to do?

http://www.fakeplasticfish.com/
http://www.plasticsareforever.org/
http://365daysoftrash.blogspot.com/2008/01/what-happens-to-all-that-recycling.html

Thanks very much,
My Name.

I will let you know what I hear.

I only give the boys wet food on occasion — they have great fur and are very fit. I measure exactly how much they get (though morning foods are getting earlier and earlier as they think I needs waking 2 hours before sunrise).

No live prey for my kitties – there is a reason that feral cats who eat nothing but live prey have very short lifespans.

The average housecat can expect to live 15 years or better — most feral/stray cats surviving on prey are not so long lived.

Cats can get all kinda nasty stuff from eating raw prey that affects their health and life expectancy. Ever notice how skinny cats in the country get in the summer in N California? That’s from eating lizards — for whatever reason, eating lizards makes them lose weight (but lizard population control keeps rattlesnakes away).

Protect your kitties and give them good food – if they ever exhibit interest in raw broccoli stalks or nutritional yeast, let them eat it. I swear that’s what keeps my boys healthy — Dobson decided he liked raw Napa cabbage last night and ate and ate (George didn’t like it).

Of course, Dobs also likes arugula, radicchio and fennel (I swear he’s Italian).

I figure with raw vegetables, they can eat as much as they want — apple peel doesn’t make them throw up like grass does and is more nutritious. Oh – avocado, they like that, too. :)

I would get an opinion from another vet about the homemade food. It is possible he/she was worried that the kitties may not get important nutrients that are added to the premade food.

Also check out the Cornell Feline Health Center at http://www.vet.cornell.edu/fhc/

You may find some useful info or links.

Treat the diarrhea seriously though!
Do they eat any treats that might cause diarrhea?
You may want to keep them on the food that works until they are older and then try experimenting with homemade/whole/raw food. Remember to introduce new foods slowly!

Good luck!

But here’s the really sad part (quoting from the above-linked article):

“Many entrepreneurial passers-by were filling shopping trolleys with empty bottles and cans as The City’s cleanup crews drew near, but much of the recyclable material that the passers-by missed was crushed along with unrecyclable trash in dump trucks.

Golden Gate Disposal and Recycling Co. set up recycling points along the route, according to general manager Maurice Quillen. He said event organizers were responsible for making sure waste was sorted properly, and he said recyclable material mixed with trash will end up in landfill.”

Anarres, I’m really sorry about your accident! I hope the irresponsible jerk who doored you will pay for your lost time (and medical bills, though, I guess, since you’re in Canada, that’s taken care of?)

And badhuman, careful about using that name around here; it may be actionably close to

terrible person

I wish I had a fake plastic fish to put in the shipment as well…it would be like the mark of Zorro (anybody remember him?).

What did cats eat 10,000 years ago?

How about 1,000 years ago?

How about 100 years ago?

Cats obviously thrive on a natural diet. Food from a can or bag is not natural or nutritious. When you feed a whole prey diet ALL nutrient requirements are met.

It’s kind of like Dr.’s saying that babies can’t get all of their nutritional requirements from breastmilk so they should get formula – huh?!!

Watch the video here:

Dr Do More

Good Luck,
Christy

p.s. I’m a linking fool thanks to you!!