Natural Nutrition for Cats: The Path to Purr-Fect Health

by Kymythy Schultze

Cats rule and dogs drool That's right . . . cats have surpassed dogs as America's favorite pets. If you share your heart and home with a cat, then you've been drawn to this book because you're ready... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1401910726
• ISBN13: 9781401910723
• Release Date: January 2008
• Publisher: Hay House
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.9" x 7.0"

Customer Reviews

I highly recomend it!

Mrz. Schultze is not only an acomplished pet food maker, but a clear, concise and well researched writer as well. Her book has helped me to not only know how to make the healthiest food possible for my cat's but almost more importantly, she's helped me to understand why it's so important to do so. Wether your ready to dive in and start making everything from scatch or perhaps just getting started in the catfood kitchen, she has recipies for you. I highly recomend this book and I enjoyed her writing style so much that I read it cover to cover just hours after it arived. Her writing style is very reader friendly and easy to understand, and the amount of research that she has done has certainly saved me a lot of leg work. Thank you for this book! I'm greatful it's on my shelf!

What an eye opener!

Natural Nutrition for Cats: The Path to Purr-fect Health This book is chock full of information that every cat owner should be given when they first adopt a kitten. It's a must read about pet food companies and how they operate. I can't believe that I never knew how important a raw diet can be for the health of our cats! My father was a vet and we never talked about this. I just recently connected with a group in northern California that has cats living to be 20, even 25 yrs old! The secret seems to be feeding them the correct nutrients which includes raw foods. I have known over 20 vets for years and not one of them has ever mentioned a raw food diet and how much healthier cats are when fed this way. I am saddened to think that those I entrusted with my pets' health didn't guide me to the best for them! I recommend this book to anyone who wants to give their beloved kitty more healthy happy years of life! I also encourage you to check out "Pottenger's Cats"- a study from the 1930s that is very revealing!

Great book for true cat lovers

This little gem really spells out how to feed your cat. I have known for years that a raw diet is the best way to feed them, but I could never get my two boys to eat anything raw. This book has helped me feed them right. I am almost there. In another few days they will be eating a completely raw diet. I no longer give them dried food. I know they like it but it is so bad for them, even the high quality, low carb variety that I have because it has been cooked. My cats have already lost weight and their coats are shinier and healthier. Knowing what I know about the human diet (that we eat too many carbs and not enough fat) I am certain that having my cats eat an ancestral diet is the way to keep them healthy and disease free. I highly recommend this book if you want your cats to live a long and healthy life.

Great info on pet food industry and how-to for raw diet

Lots of great (scary!) info on the unregulated pet food industry in this country. If you are on the border about switching your cat to a raw food diet, this book will give you the motivation to never feed with commercial pet food again! Lots of detail on how to make your own food and what supplements to add (and why). After conventional vets could do no more for my kitty (and I think were making him worse!) I started taking him to a small-animal osteopath/homeopath. She has been using raw diets on her animals for 12 years and said she found that the animals actually do better on just whole ground up animals (including some liver, heart, gizzard and the ground bones). She did not recommend feeding extra supplements.. If all the supplement preparation in the book looks too overwhelming for you, just try the ground up animal since it is still WAY better than the commercial poisons. Just remember that you must include some taurine (heart and gizzards) and a small amount of liver and some bone for them to get a balanced diet. I think the supplement controversy comes in because cats eating whole animals would eat the stomach and everything and most likely get some vegetable matter from what their prey (mostly mice) would eat. Find a good butcher who will grind whole chickens, cornish hens or quail, rabbits, and turkey meat with added organ meats. They will most likely want to do it at the close of business just before they clean their machines since they would contaminate other meats ground afterwards.. Get the meat coarse-ground and add some small cut-up pieces if you have the time so your kitty has something to chew on.. Also,try to get meats without hormones or antibiotics since cats little bodies really aren't equipped to handle all that either.. although, raw with hormones and antibiotics is still better than commercial as well.. Have patience, if your kitty is addicted to his crunchies, you may have to put a few in the raw food to get him to start eating.. My sister and I both did the "sink or swim" philosophy with our cats (here's the food, eat it) and they both took to it pretty quickly.. and are eating with gusto now! One great benefit is that their poo gets tiny and all dried up with no smell! My kitty had HUGE stinky poo before the raw diet: guess the commercial food had so little nutrient value that it all came out in the litter box! ..Oh, and my kitty is now putting weight back on and his fur is getting thicker every day!

"Meow." Translation: Thanks, Kymythy!

This book contains information that every pet owner should know about! I have a good friend whos cat was killed by eating a well known brand of cat food that was included in the pet food recall last year. This book gives you all the information you need to protect yourself and your cat from such a tragic fate. The book is a worthy follow up to Kymythy Schultze's other two books that I recommend to everyone. The No-Cook book for People and Pets is my favorite receipe book of all time, and the Natural Nutrion for Dogs and Cats book was what started me feeding a homemade diet years ago. She has done a brilliant job of updating the information in the first book and adding new and very timely information for cats and their people. As usual Ms. Schultze adds her brand of humor and charm to the subject, making it a very enjoyable read. I really enjoyed the cat pictures too. Great book!