Dear Miss
Lotus,
I cannot
believe what happened this morning! I
went to my breakfast bowl where normally a nice supply of my favorite kibble is
waiting for me. Look what was there
instead.
What the
*purr* is that? Excuse me, but I will take my meal with no eyes, thank
you. A nice batch of brown crunchy
wafers will do just fine! What is my mum thinking?
Baffled and
Hungry,
Miss Molly
Dear Miss
Molly,
O.K., here
is when I must agree with your mum. You
know, you are a true meat eater, not a veggie or sugar eater. In two-legged terms, you are a carnivore, not
an herbivore or vegetarian. Alas, most
of the crunchy wafers you like are full of grains. Now, imagine yourself in a field of
wheat. A small mouse darts by. What would you do? Gnaw on the wheat or chase after the mouse? You might be briefly entertained by the
wheat, but, being a cat myself, I know you would go after the mouse! There are some other signs that you would
prefer the mouse over the wheat: your teeth are meant for stabbing and tearing,
and your claws are to help you catch and hold-on to prey (as well as injure
them). Your intestines (you know, your
gut) are short to quickly pass your diet so it won’t sit and stew inside of
you. Now cows—those creatures who love
plants—have no claws, have teeth for grinding, and have a gut specifically
designed to breakdown those plants! In
fact, some two-leggeds (the white-jacketed ones) claim that we felines can’t
even taste the sugar (the fancy shmancy term is “carbohydrates”) that is in plants because we were
never meant to eat them!! Now that is interesting! (Although, I am scared to
know how they know that.)
Alas, all
kinds of grains are found in our food made by the two-leggeds. It is a great “filler” and is cheap, but it
seems to damage our health over the long-run, so ends-up being quite expensive. Some two-leggeds claim that diabetes and
kidney failure are a result of eating grains.
Kidney failure may also be a result of eating those very dry crunchy
wafers you like! Those things are
actually quite dehydrating!
So, if you
would choose a mouse over a field of wheat in nature, then why do you choose
the crunchy grain-filled wafers over the fish in your own home? Well, Miss Molly, you are such a creature of
habit! You will need to unlearn those
two-legged ways and find your inner wildcat.
Your mum must gently transition you to your new species appropriate diet
if she is determined to do so. Now, the
good news is that some of those wafers are now grain free, so she can use those
while trying to get you to eat a healthy and hydrating diet. I recommend this e-book for feline parents: Raw Fed Cats.
Now, let it be
known that I am not giving you or my devoted readers medical advice, just some
insights based on my own studies at Feline University—and what I consider to
be a dab of common sense! Hehe! But I
will advise you, dear Miss Molly, to open your mind a bit and remember the
primal cat dwelling within. Eat your
fish!
Yours Truly,
Miss Lotus,
editor, In the Muse
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