Good
Nutrition for Your Cats
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What should you be feeding your cat?
You need to consider what cats will need in the wild
to determine the best food sources for them.
In the wild, cats will eat mice and birds, and drink
water. Obviously this is a diet
high in protein and it is essential that your cat
gets sufficient protein to maintain a good healthy
diet.
What many people don't realize is that cats can get
diabetes from having a diet that is too high in carbohydrates.
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By constantly feeding your cat carbohydrates it can become
insulin resistant and unable to keep its blood glucose levels
at a suitable level.
Some signs that your cat is becoming diabetic
include drinking a lot of water and eating considerably
more than they usually do. You might also notice a sign
of weakness in the back legs as they tend to wobble a bit
when walking.
The only way to be sure whether your cat is developing
diabetes is to give it a blood test.
This is the best way to determine whether the cat has diabetes
or not, although you can do a urine analysis to check blood
glucose levels, but this is not as accurate.
Unlike humans and other animals it is possible for cats
that have diabetes to go into remission provided their diet
has been changed with an elimination of high carbohydrate
foods. More protein will help to stabilize the blood glucose
levels.
Dry biscuits are particularly bad for cats as they are
generally very high in carbohydrates and even though your
cat might love eating them, because of the additives that
have been put into these dry foods, it certainly won't do
their health a lot of good.
The reason why these dry
biscuits are so popular is because of the convenience
and the fact that cats are very fussy eaters, and most cats
like dry biscuits except possibly those that have been found
straying in the wild.
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