Your Pets Seasonal Coat Health
Filed under: General Pet News — iselyfeline @ 8:45 pm
This article orginally appeared in part of the October 2008 Healthy Pet net newsletter and was written by holistic et Dr. Jane Bicks:
As we moe into the wintertime, most of us will be turning up the heat. Sadly however, heated houses are quite often too dry, which may lead to ultra skin. This constant dryness can sometimes cause skin cells to die out at an increased rate. When you notice dandruff, which is the sloughing off of clumps of dead skin cells, this is a clear sign of this type of overly dry skin. The hair of the coat also dries out, leading to increased shedding.
To fight the constant dryness, consider using a humidifier during the months that you use central heat. Humidifiers, which are broadly available these days, may cure this issue swiftly and on the relative cheap. The use of a humidifier will not only help the skin and coat of your dog or cat, it could help to improve the health of your own skin as well.
As has been mentioned in earlier articles, various nutritious cat foods such as Life’s Abundance and Instinctive Choice can go a long way to improving the health of the coat and the skin, which is the body’s largest organ. Life’s Abundance is in fact a truly Premium Cat Food ….As a matter of fact, most of the protein content cats eat goes to help support the skin and coat – over 90%. Adding a nutritional daily supplement like Life’s Abundance Wellness Food Supplement to your cat’s diet can also provide much needed aid in keeping the coat lustrous and the skin pliable and healthy, all winter long. It is so important to go with a real premium cat food.
February 24, 2009
Your Pets Seasonal Coat Health
How Much Water Do Cats Need?
ow much water does a cat need? The quantity of water required by cats will vary depending on various issues, like diet, weight and environment, for example. But we do know that when felines hunt in the wild, their prey may have anywhere from 45% to 80% water. This is one of the reasons behind recipes for canned food, which usually has between 76% and 80% water content. Additional information about Cat Nutrition and related Feline matters may be obtained over at The OUR Healthy Pets Cat Blog Even though there is no real formula for feline water intake, we do know that they normally won’t injest enough water on their own to sustain optimal organ functioning for a healthy life. This is due to the fact that cats evolved as desert animals, so their sense of thirst is not nearly so sensitive as that of other animals. As a matter of fact, cats will only drink an average of 2 milliliters of water for every gram of dry food eaten. This is part of the reason why when some cats eat a diet of only dry food, they can form crystals in the urinary tract.Based on the physiology and evolution of the cat, we suggest that cats be fed canned food to make certain they get enough H2o. Water is not only necessary for a healthy urinary tract – the body requires water to metabolize food and for all other chemical processes occurring on a cellular level.
Cats are very proficient at using the water they consume. According to a study by Wolf in 1959, cats can even re-hydrate by drinking seawater!
The problem with eating canned food by itself is that cats require a great deal of protein and nutrients. Since most canned food can only have about twenty percent dry matter, it takes a number of cans of food for the cat to get all of its nutritional needs met. As a matter of fact, in order to fulfill the nutritional requirement of a 7-9 pound cat, most supermarket canned foods recommend feeding 3 cans a day! As any cat owner knows, very few cats are capable of injesting that much food on a regular basis. This is the big question in formulating canned cat food – how to balance the nutritional content and the water that is required to fully hydrate the body. To solve this, Dr. Jane formulated Instinctive Choice. The nutrients in this recipe are almost all-protein, as this is the true source of feline nutrition. And the water in Instinctive Choice is infused with nutrients from meat and fish sources, mimicking the water found in prey – Dr. Jane calls it “biological water”. Think of it as a nutrient-dense broth that delivers both the fluids necessary to sufficiently hydrate the body.