vegetarian cats

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Diane, I looked at the website you referred, but I cannot go with the raw meat.

It seems our food chain is so very contaminated. Now scientists say you can get

the bird flu virus from eating chicken as well as pork. With pork you have

tapeworm factor, all meat has parasite factor...fish has mercury concentrates,

etc. Check out this article about NATURAL vegetarianism for animals. If I do not

have meat in house for me, I do not want it for my animals. It stinks and breeds

bacteria, too. I make special mixtures for pets and also just use a quality dry

food. Here is an excerpt that I hope you all will find very interesting.

http://www.answersingenesis.org/creation/v22/i2/lion.asp The lion that wouldn’t

eat meat by Catchpoole

Earlier this century, A female African lion, born and raised in America, lived

her entire lifetime of nine years without ever eating meat.1 In fact, her

owners, s and Margaret Westbeau,2 alarmed by scientists’ reports that

carnivorous animals cannot live without meat, went to great lengths to try to

coax their unusual pet (‘Little Tyke’) to develop a taste for it. They even

advertised a cash reward for anyone who could devise a meat-containing formula

that the lioness would like. The curator of a New York zoo advised the Westbeaus

that putting a few drops of blood in Little Tyke’s milk bottle would help in

weaning her, but the lioness cub refused to touch it — even when only a single

drop of blood had been added. The more knowledgeable animal experts among the

many visitors to the Westbeaus’ 100 acre (40 hectare) ranch also proffered

advice, but nothing worked. Meanwhile, Little Tyke continued to do extremely

well on a daily diet of cooked grain, raw eggs and

milk. By four years of age she was fully grown and weighed 352 pounds (160 kg).

As s Westbeau writes, it was ‘a young visitor’ to Hidden Valley ranch who

finally put his mind at ease in response to the question of how Little Tyke

could be persuaded to eat meat (thought to be essential for carnivores to

survive): ‘He turned to look at me with serious eyes, then asked, “Don’t you

read your Bible?” I admitted I didn’t read it as much as I probably should. He

continued, “Read Genesis 1:30, and you will get your answer.” At my first

opportunity I got my Bible and turned to the passage he had indicated. To my

astonishment, I read these words: “And to every beast of the earth, and to every

fowl of the air, and to everything that creepeth upon the earth, wherein there

is life, I have given every green herb for meat: and it was so.”’ The owners

of Little Tyke, though apparently not Christians, were so reassured by this that

they no longer worried about her refusal to

eat meat, and turned their attention instead to refining her ‘vegetarian’3 diet

further, learning of new grains to add to the lioness’s food. These numerous

grains were ground and stirred together while in the dry state, then cooked and

mixed with the milk and eggs. The lioness was fed this mixture each morning and

evening, and sometimes at midday as well. (To condition her teeth and gums — as

she steadfastly refused all offers of bones to gnaw — Little Tyke was given

heavy rubber boots to chew on, which generally lasted about three weeks.) The

lioness not only survived on this diet, she thrived. One of America’s ‘most able

zoo curators’ apparently said that the lioness ‘was the best of her species he

had ever viewed.’

diana <wchasell@...> wrote: Hey sprout gang! I am soon expecting to have

a new

friend living with me in the pet-friendly apartment

I'll be moving into. For any of you sprout lovers who

are also cat lovers, have you researched into cat

diet? I found this site upon my online research.

Anyone who has a much adored kitty, I recommend this

site: http://www.catnutrition.org/

IBD, among other feline ailments, are crystaline

mirror images of the human health problems which are

directly related to poor diet. The cat food industry

is just as money-hungry (no pun intended) as the human

food industry. And let's NOT forget the drugs used to

" heal " the mounting number of malnourished kitties

these days. There is profit to be made there, too.

I'm not planning on " Super-sizing " my cat!

Peace and Love,

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