Cat Food and Cat Urinary Blockage
The very nice people at Petropics (Tiki Cat Food) saw my previous post about their cat food and how my cats scarf it up. Christine Hackett, the Tiki Cat President sent me a great email with advice about Max's health. I had expressed concern about allowing Willy to eat a fish based cat food. Willy has had urinary blockages from eating ordinary commercial fish cat food and once almost died.
Christine knows her stuff and here is what she wrote:
Seafood has the reputation for being high ash 1) because there is a lot of fish "meal" and other fish sources that contain a lot of bone which can cause a high ash rating which shows itself with a Magnesium content and 2) they add inferior food items that cats can't process which cause toxicity and excessive elimination load on the linings of the urinary system resulting in crystals and enlargement of the urethra.
Our recipe's are a low-acid recipe's, do not affect the PH system in the body, we only use whole seafood with no fish meal or other inferior by-products and is simply real, good food. The main culprit of urinary tract problems in pets is the dry food that was fed leading up to the problem. You will notice that even the "premium" foods are loaded with various grains, flours and meals which are not digestible for cats (therefore overloading their system) who are true carnivore's and also we leave the food out all day causing the cats body to alkalize the urine (cats should be fed high quality dry food 2 times a day only to allow their body to prevent alkalizing) creating crystals.
Our food is whole, pure seafood with no meal, no ground fish and bone to compromise the health of any of your cats so you don't need to protect Willy from eating Tiki. :)
I actually had a lot of customers concerned with feeding seafood to their elderly cats at a recent public show and they are all calling me for re-stocking after testing it with their cats and checking with their vets on the ingredients.
Christine has made Willy a very happy cat today.
3 Comments:
I just tossed a can of Tiki Cat Lanai Luau down the down the disposal after I read the ingredient list. "Sugar" is near the top of the list! Sugar shouldn't even be ON the list.
The above coment is not based on any truth. With a little reaserch you will find the following @ www.petropics.com/Ingredients.pdf
Lanai Luau, Tuna in Crab Surimi Consommé
Ingredients:
Tuna
Water sufficient for processing
Crab Surimi (Threadfin bream white fish, water, sugar, Sodium tripolyphosphate,
Tetra sodium pyrophosphate, Sorbitol, Crab extract, Soy Protein isolate, Paprika)
Sunflower seed oil
Corn flour
About Crab Surimi
Threadfin bream is a white fish most commonly used for human-grade crab
Surimi found in our “California Sushi Rolls”, seafood salads and more. It has a
natural crab flavor, texture, aroma and appearance to crab but is more readily
available, easier and more consistent to work with and is more stable.
Sugar is used in trace amounts of 1/100th of a % as a chemical reactor to reduce
the acid and does not affect the sugar levels in the body.
Sorbitol is used is trace amounts of 1/100th of a % as a chemical reactor to cause
Crab Surimi to become fuller bodied in texture. This is a sugar alcohol, which the
body will not convert to sugar.
Soy Protein Isolate is the most usable source of vegetable protein and is used as
the thickener in Crab Surimi.
Very helpful posts. My cat loves this food! :) She won't leave me alone about it. At dinner time she follows me around the house meowing at me until she gets it. She's a hunter of all types of critters and I am always searching for all natural products that are close enough to the "fresh" thing. I feed her a dry food called "By Nature" with no corn or other harmful additives and her favorite tiki cat :)
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