17/11/2024
BENEFITS OF RAW FOR CATS
We strongly believe that a raw cat food diet is the best food for our feline friends. Your fluffy house cat is an obligate carnivore – the nutrients they need to survive come from meat.
A raw diet, made from high-quality muscle meat, organs, and bone, provides your cat with biologically appropriate nutrition modelled on what they would eat in the wild.
Raw diets provide your cat with variety – which can help prevent them from becoming picky about what they eat and ensure that all of their nutritional requirements are met, keeping them healthy and happy.
When cats catch small prey, they eat the whole thing – including the bone. Raw bone is a wonderful source of minerals. It is the primary source of calcium in a raw diet. Served raw, bone is highly digestible for your cat. The organs are nature’s ‘multi-vitamin’, in a form that your cat’s body recognises and can readily use.
RAW VS COOKED & DRY CAT FOOD
Raw ingredients contain natural vitamins, minerals, and amino acids, which are degraded when cooked. Processed pet food is cooked at very high temperatures several times. This results in a loss of vital nutrients which are added back in, in synthetic form. To bind dry, processed kibble together, carbohydrate filler ingredients such as potatoes are often used. And, as obligate carnivores, cats get no nutritional benefits from these carbohydrates.
7 HEALTH BENEFITS
A raw diet, based on what cats eat naturally, can support their health in many ways, including the following.
MAINTAINING A HEALTHY WEIGHT
Raw food contains high-quality protein that gives your cat the energy they need to keep active – and we all know that keeping active helps to keep weight gain at bay.
Cats often overeat when they’re fed a diet high in carbs. They eat more on a carbohydrate-laden diet in an attempt to get enough of the nutrients they need.
A raw diet has the correct balance of “Macronutrients”, higher protein, moderate fats, and low carbohydrates which translates to your cat naturally storing much less body fat.
SUPPORTS THEIR DIGESTION
Cat’s digestive enzymes are geared for raw meat! Research has shown that a raw meaty diet is not only easier for felines to digest but it is also better absorbed meaning all the essential nutrients get used as nature intended.
A good quality meat-based diet is easier for cats to digest and healthy, happy digestion can also mean fewer of those pesky furballs.
HEALTHY TOILET HABITS
The litter box of a raw fed cat is a revelation. As cats are able to use much more of what they eat – and this means less comes out the other end. A raw fed cat poos less often – some only going once every other day. Plus, their poo is much smaller, firm, dry, and even a little crumby. Meaning that it’s very easy to scoop out the litter box. And it barely smells! That’s a win for your cat – and a win for you.
Diets high in carbohydrates are hard for cats to digest, leading to inflammation and food intolerances – both of which may make issues with a**l glands worse.
