Feeding a cat on a dry food diet opens up many health issues from obesity, fatty liver disease, renal failure, mycotoxins and dental problems.
Unlike dogs, cats are primarily carnivores and lack the ability to process vegetables and grains. You can give a dog a mixed diet or all vegetarian diet, but a cat has no way of processing the proteins in vegetables, nor can control the enzymes that build up in its liver.
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Date: 2006-02-24 11:28 am (UTC)You might want to read this article about dry food and cats:
http://www.blakkatz.com/dryfood.html
Feeding a cat on a dry food diet opens up many health issues from obesity, fatty liver disease, renal failure, mycotoxins and dental problems.
Unlike dogs, cats are primarily carnivores and lack the ability to process vegetables and grains. You can give a dog a mixed diet or all vegetarian diet, but a cat has no way of processing the proteins in vegetables, nor can control the enzymes that build up in its liver.