No, but I can see why a person like you would jump to that conclusion.Originally Posted by Private Pickle
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No, but I can see why a person like you would jump to that conclusion.
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They need a yard or a walk, and you still have to scoop their $#@!.
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I'd rather do that then have a stinky litter box in the house. Cat urine and poo is seriously vile. You can train a dog to use a particular part of your yard for its business. My Shibas always used the one-foot space between the back trees and the back fence. The trees grew like crazy and it was never smelly.
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I like cats, but I don't want one as a pet. Life is about choices. Anecdotally, cats tend to have more medical issues than dogs as well.
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I grew up with mutts. I love dogs. I haven't experienced the medical difference. Knock on wood.
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They have problems with their teeth and seem more predisposed to developing diabetes when they get older. I suspect diabetes develops largely because many cat foods contain too many non-meat ingredients.
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Whatever you say Bob.
I find your lack of faith...disturbing...
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Mine eat a lot of grain free food. I don't think mScience Diet dry food is grain free but it's good stuff. I feed them eggs and chicken in a pinch.
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Even Science Diet is a bit of a scam. If you want to avoid vet bills in the future, find a cat food with zero grain. Cats, unlike dogs, are strictly carnivores. Grain does two things - it limits the meat protein in the food and it's fattening. This causes the cat to be hungry (really craving meat protein) so it eats more and often lacking in sufficient exercise, they get fat. The combination sets them up for diabetes. I primarily raw fed my Shiba for most of his life and he lived to be 18, which is really old for a dog - he was also never fat or particularly interested in snacking. If you could mostly raw feed your cat, it would be ideal. For some bizarre reason (or perhaps for economic reasons) cat food manufacturers think that cats need stupid things like carrots and cranberries in their food, even if there is no grain. Those things just add sugar to the food. If a cat eats greens it's because they need some occasional roughage which they would normally get from the hair and bones of their prey, like mice. Some cat grass growing in a container provides that roughage in a nonfattening way i.e. it just passes through, undigested.
This article explains the physiological differences with cats: https://www.petmd.com/cat/nutrition/...eeds_different
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