Extreme Increase of Diabetes in Cats
According to recent statistics diabetes has become increasingly common in cats in the last ten years. Something is very wrong!
Fat cats risk becoming diabetic, according to more and more observations:
While the exact incidence is unknown, the number of diabetic cats is increasing at an alarming rate due to the tremendous increase in the number of overweight and obese cats.
VCA Animal Hospitals: Diabetes Mellitus in Cats
Cats that eat cheap cat food based on wheat, oats, rice and corn (carbohydrates) – despite being genetically adapted meat eaters – risk becoming fat AND getting diabetes.
Food with a lot of easily digested carbohydrates may namely raise both the cat’s blood sugar and shoot the fat-storing hormone insulin levels through the roof. The cat will become both sick and fat from new industrial foods filled with easily digested carbohydrates. Just like we do.
Cats and Carbs: An Update on Feline Diabetes
What does your cat eat?
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And for cats its mostly mice!
http://lowcarbdiets.about.com/b/2011/10/02/is-the-catkins-diet-best-f...
Mayby they dont adapted to farming?
I am very happy for your cat and all of us that have regained our health from "incurable diseases" through low carb!
Sad for our dogs that got too much carbs and died prematurely from cancer over 10 years ago when we just did not know....
And BTW there is more electromagnetic radiation around here now with wireless networks, mobile phones and masts for them not far away.
Maybe it only affects high carb consumers ?
http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/9-leading-causes-of-bird-deaths-in-ca...
The general opinion is that it´s because of bad breeding, but maybe that´s not all it is
I bet it´s the modern sugardense dogfood that´s the main problem in many of these cases
Recommended reading: Dr Lisa Pierson's excellent website catinfo.org
Scroll down to the middle of the page and see explicit photographs of a cat suffering from urethral blockage and photographs of an obese cat with horrible eczema caused by his inability to keep himself clean in the perianal region.
There is also information on how to calculate the carb content in canned food. You won't find this information on the labels.
Feeding your cat a biologically appropiate raw diet is not difficult. See Dr Pierson's recipe.
Sugar has never been a greedy cat. Spice, on the other hand, has always been a glutton.
We initially fed them both on canned meat and "mixer meal" (usually Friskies). Sugar would eat up his ration of canned meat, then go out for a walk. Spice would eat up all his canned meat, then all his mixer, then all of Sugar's mixer. He'd then go out for a short walk, then return and mew pitifully in the hope of getting some more—so we'd give him more mixer.
After a few years like this, Spice was considerably overweight (8 kg compared to 6 kg for Sugar), and was suffering from arthritis. We stopped the mixer immediately, and he promptly returned to a normal weight, regained his energy, and showed no further signs of arthritis. Spice is also the great hunter, coming back with birds, mice and so on; we don't particularly like it, but that's nature.
They are now 12, and both in excellent health! Thank goodness for low-carb diets for cats!
In one bit of research done on cats,some were given dishes of food and a small rodent. One cat walked over to the rodent,killed it and then returned to it's dish to continue eating.
Since birds can't see at night,they are the most helpless of all. Here in America,flying squirrels seldom live longer that a year due to cats. And don't even get me started on what they have done in Australia.
That being said,the same cheap grains put in cat foods are also in food for rabbits,rodents, dogs, hedgehogs and birds...And of course, us.
1. Owner awareness and desire to learn and take action
2. Owner willingness and sense of responsibility
3. Owner use of feeding aids, such as the MeowSpace http://meowspace.biz, when faced with the difficulty of feeding multiple pets different foods.
4. Owner determination and consistency
Bottom line: It's the pet owner who has the power to help the feline diabetes remission process, but they have to want to take the steps to do it, and be willing to go those lengths.
This is the anthropomorphic nonsense that is peddled as an excuse to kill foxes. The mantra is perpetuated by a hen coop full of dead chickens and 'I wouldn't mind if they killed just one, but they do it because they just enjoy killing'.
Wrong! That mindset is exclusively reserved for man.
Cats (and foxes) are opportunistic killers who on seeing movement will attack. If they did not, they might miss out on a meal. This is an inbuilt reflex they are unable to control, so given an artificial environment such as a hen coop, they will kill everything that moves.