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Raw Food For Cats For An Optimal Cat Digestive System
Raw Food For Cats can be a great aid in feeding cats and could dramatically help to prevent cat illness symptoms.
Cats are carnivore animals and require a certain type of diet in order to stay healthy. Feeding cats processed cat food is probably responsible for most of cat food allergies.
A cat digestive system is limited to certain enzymes and cannot turn foods like grains or denatured meats into the amino acids necessary for optimal health.
Cats are Carnivore Animals!
Cats are basically carnivore animals and in the wild eat their prey raw and just a little plant food.
They can get some vegetable particles when they eat their prey, as they usually eat their prey whole and that would include what is in the digestive tract of what is usually an herbivore or plant eater.
Cats like the meat, bones, brains and other organs of their prey.
In the wild, cats eat a varied diet including mice, birds, fish, reptiles, insects, and small mammals.
What Hurts a Cat Digestive System?
A cat digestive system does not do well on processed pet foods, which are too high in carbohydrates. These pet foods are also heated to very high temperatures, which destroys just about every nutrient in the food.
This will destroy essential nutrients such as the amino acid taurine.
Raw food for cats is natural and cooked food is truly unnatural for cats.
In the wild, cats sometimes eat some pretty disgusting things with no ill effects. Cats can even eat their own feces and live.
Cat's stomachs have a highly acidic environment, which is an unfavorable environment to ingested bacteria and a very favorable environment for digesting protein.
Cats lack specific enzymes and certain metabolic processes which makes digesting plant proteins to get their necessary nutrition very difficult.
Most grains and plant foods are not complete proteins and are deficient in amino acids such as taurine needed for your cats optimal health.
They also have too short a digestive tract to digest plants effectively.
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Cat Illness Symptoms
Cat illness symptoms include:
Loss of appetite
Weight loss
Unhealthy looking coat
Vomiting
Diarrhea or Constipation
Abnormal urination
Excessive thirst
Sneezing
Head shaking
Discharge in eyes
Bad breath
Depression
Breathing problems
Receding gums
Excessive meowing
Hiding a lot
Fever
Feeding Cats Raw Food Guide
A raw meat diet supplemented with small amounts of vegetables and essential fatty acids will closely match the food your cat would get in the wild.
However, I would not feed any type of raw meat to a cat. I would make sure it was properly raised and fed no hormones, chemicals, or drugs.
Look for grass-fed animals, pasture raised or wild caught seafood when feeding cats raw food.
Raw food for cats include chicken, beef, turkey, fish, sardines, eggs, rabbit, game meats, organ meats, and small bones.
Cats do not require any grain or fruits in their diets and all vegetables should be broken down such as blended or finely chopped to aid in digestion.
You could probably get away with very small amounts of fruit, but it may cause more problems than it's worth.
The following should be avoided onions, garlic, grapes, raisins, mushrooms, avocado, nightshades, and chocolate (or anything with caffeine).
Cats are basically carnivore animals and in the wild eat their prey raw and just a little plant food. 
Cat illness symptoms include:
