Modern cat foods may do a grand job in supplying your feline with the right vitamins and nutrients, but they do little to keep their teeth healthy.
This is becoming an increasing problem because
modern cat food usually has a low amount of water inside.
Not exact matches
Together with her sister, Vinnie (Jennifer Ehle, in a rare role worth her warm talent), and an irreverently
modern friend, Vryling Buffam (Catherine Bailey), Emily bats guests, suitors, and uptight relatives around like a
cat playing with its
food — an intellectual game hunt that seems to fill her father (Keith Carradine) with a mixture of disapproval and begrudging pride.
Stones and gravel are less common than they once were — they were associated with dried
cat foods, but
modern formulations eliminate the problem in all but a very few susceptible
cats.
Indoor - only
cats are less active than
cats with access to the outdoors, and, unlike their ancestors,
modern domestic
cats no longer have to hunt for
food.
The commercial dog
food industry stepped in with a
modern, scientific way to feed
cats that was bagged, canned, easily categorized and available at your grocery store.
Modern day
cats eat lots of dry
food which has very low water content (about 10 %) and so they need an additional water supply in the form of a separate water bowl.
Modern dry
food contains such a low amount of water that
cats dehydrate and often become seriously ill if they do not drink enough liquids.
The proponents of grain free
cat food argue that the ancestors of
modern house
cats did not dine on cereal grains.
According to our
modern stereotypes, there are two things
cats love more than any other
food: cream and fresh fish.
That said, many
modern - day
cats don't drink enough water and are in a state of mild dehydration because they eat a lot of dry
food.
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Stones and gravel are less common than they once were - they were associated with dried
cat foods, but
modern formulations eliminate the problem in all but a very few susceptible
cats.