Benefits of a Natural Raw Diet

Whole Foods for Better Health

Better Oral Health

So many cats have been feed a steady diet of canned or kibbled pet “food” for so long, that today an unprecedented number of them are developing tooth and gum disease. And because a cat with poor oral health harbors a mouthful of unhealthy bacteria, this is a major contributing factor to a myriad of other, more serious health issues and diseases. So called chronic stinky ‘kitty breath’ is not just unpleasant, it’s a signal that a cat is not being fed properly. Feeding a prey model diet, which is based on whole, raw meaty bones and carcasses, often reduces or even eliminates this problem.

Improved Digestion

Feeding whole raw meaty bones, which require gnawing and jawing to consume, means that cats must do some work to process those foods with their teeth and jaws before it’s swallowed. This working of the food not only allows ample time for the cat’s naturally acidic gastric juices to be adequately excreted, but in fact actually stimulates the excretion of these juices, giving the cat’s system the best chance of properly digesting her meal. The increased digestibility of whole raw foods also makes for smaller, less smelly stools that are completely biodegradable.

By contrast, commercial, and even pre-ground raw foods, require no such time or effort to consume on the part of the cat, and so are generally gulped down, eliminating the necessary time it takes for the stomach to properly prepare to receive the food. This gulping of food can result in an improperly digested meal that may end up as an unpleasant revisiting of that meal on a carpet or sofa, or perhaps even an abnormal stool. In addition, because commercial pet food often contains so many fillers and isn’t nearly as digestible for cats as raw food, it often makes for unnaturally large, very smelly stools that take a long time to decompose.

Awakening Your Cat’s Inner Carnivore

And finally, eating whole foods often requires some strategy on the part of the cat. Cats generally need to develop certain skills when it comes to eating RMB’s. At times they may need to use their paws, or even physically reposition themselves in order to approach their food differently so as to get a better grip on it. The challenges offered by feeding whole foods provide the kind of mental and emotional stimulation that no commercial or pre-ground food ever can.

The mental, psychological and physical stimulation of tackling large, intact RMB’s provides such a variety of invaluable, intangible benefits – not only in terms of good health, but also with regards to the general, all around well being of our furry friends – that they can hardly even begin to be described. One can only really begin to appreciate such subtle, beneficial effects on our feline companions when we start feeding them the way Nature designed them to be fed – and has in fact been feeding our pet cats’ forebears, as well as their wild cousins, for eons uncounted.