THESE RESEARCH PAPERS ALL LINK PET FOOD WITH THE ILLNESS OR DEATH OF THE CAT OR DOG TAKING PART IN THE

THESE RESEARCH PAPERS ALL LINK PET FOOD WITH THE ILLNESS OR DEATH OF THE CAT OR DOG TAKING PART IN THE RESEARCH Prepared by Fiona MacMillanPub Med - J Am Vet Med Assoc. 2004 Mar 15;224(6): 879-86 "Epidemiologic study of relationships between consumption of commercial canned food and risk of hyperthryoidism in cats" and links feeding tinned pet food with causing hyperthryoidism. PubMed - Am J Vet Res. 2004 Feb; 65(2): 138-42 "Evaluation of effects of dietary carbohydrate on formation of struvite crystals in urine and macromineral balance in clinically normal cats" which says carbohydrate stimulates struvite which stops a cat passing urine and can kill it within 24 hours if it is not catheterized and that restricting carbohydrate from the diet is desirable to prevent struvite. Therefore taking the cat off dry food is vital because dry food has up to 50% carbohydrate or even more in it when the cat was never meant to eat any more than 1% carbohydrate according to Richard Allport MRCVS.. The carbohydrate alkalises the urine of the cat and creates the perfect conditions for struvite stones to form. PubMed - J Am Vet Med Assoc 1993 Mar 1 (202(5): 744-51 "Development of chronic renal disease in cats fed a commercial diet" which says that cats over a 2 year study 3 of the 9 cats in the study had developed renal dysfunction and renal lesions. The food was high in protein and acid content and possibly the acid content caused the kidney problems because in a ...