Re: Pets On Prozak - Disguising the problems that arise from pet food
Hi Seventh Sojourn, thanks for posting. 
When I bought my younger dog I signed a contract agreeing to feed her this way. I'd had my older male on Iams mixed with some cooked hamburger and supplements for his two years. He had bad breath, a limp upon exertion due to a weak achilles tendon, and stage 1 arthritis from a congenital case of elbow dysplasia.
Because of the younger dog's required diet, I decided to feed the older dog likewise, and within one month both his bad breath and his limp disappeared. He is now 5 1/2 and shows no deterioration in his elbows. His elbows are better now than they were at 1 year when he was on "dog" food.
Yes....this is exactly what I was talking about at the beginning of the thread...the fact that so many pets nowadays have long term illness and disease. It's due to their food, imo. So that's good to hear of somebody who has direct proof that a switch in diet eliminates the illness.
Dogs and cats can eat raw bones, even chicken bones. They absolutely cannot eat cooked bones because they splinter........he is appalled by the way I feed the animals. He warns me of constipation, parasites, etc, etc, but every year I bring my animals back for a checkup and they serve as a living testimony.
Oh..the confusion, tell me about it! Same thing here as well. The vet I took my cat to was a nice woman, didn't push stuff on me just to make $$, but she wasn't happy at the idea of me feeding my cat raw food, AT all. STRONGLY discouraged it. I got the lecture about parasites, got the lecture about salmonella, the whole deal. Thing is................my cat's been eating raw chicken and turkey for several months now with no problems whatsoever. She is not sick. Her stools are normal, now that I've integrated more fiber into her food to compensate for the high water content. She's fine. She has energy, she's alert and active. She's 5 1/2, but acts like she's 1 or 2. So I'm thinking....doesn't that speak for itself??? I just KNOW that if I listen to the vets and put her back on a full time store bought, high cooked, no enzyme diet she WILL get sick, guaranteed. I mean, THAT'S how you get a cat sick.
My other "leap of logic" regarding this, and I could be wrong, who knows, is.....cats in the wild are big time bird eaters. Raw birds. So.....raw chicken = bird. raw turkey = bird......you know what I mean? 
Maybe that's a bad train of logic, buuuuuuut........ haha
I hope you are finding your answer for your cat, Lyra. I believe all animals have special circumstances, and sometimes it's not real straightforward.
Thanks.........one bit of advise from the vet that I did take into account, which I've incorporated into my cat's diet, is the fact that cats DO get carbohydrates and greens...indirectly, via the prey they kill. Their prey are eating greens and grains, and since cat's eat the entire kill, including the contents of their stomach, then they get their greens / grains that way.
I thought that was a good point, and so made sure to include that in her diet. I also decided, just to be on the safe side, to cook the egg that's in her food, and to eliminate the bone and maybe add a bone meal supplement instead. So, some major modifications since I first started with this whole deal.
Anyway, thanks for posting your experience Seventh Sojourn, I appreciate hearing other people's stories about what they're doing, and what works.
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