Letters to the Editor
c'estlavie
Published Letters: 151 Editor's Choice: 22
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raw food
[Read the article: The beef over pet food]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]What more anecdotal evidence are you looking for that raw food works? Do you want our pets to become rocket scientists to prove that it works? Before I knew about raw foods, I fed my cat commercial pet food and at 15, she developed chronic inflammatory bowel disease. The animal hospital was only too happy to gouge me for the "treatment" and duplicative tests, none of which mentioned diet changes. After I took her to a holistic vet and we changed her diet, her disease coincidentally disappeared. She's now 19, eats raw chicken, heavy cream, sardines, and the like. OK, so she still can't figure out how to do my taxes using Turbotax, but if raw food presents so many potential hazards, why did you not interview anyone who had negative experiences with raw food? I've also never developed any bacteria-borne illnesses and thank you for telling me to wash my hands and my cats' bowls after each feeding. Duh!
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raw food
[Read the article: The beef over pet food]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]So we are the "Taliban" of the pet world! Oh my. Surely you can raise the debate to a higher level than adult name calling. To the person who won't get a pet until the world is healed ... I don't understand what one has to do with the other. Isn't that a little like saying that we invaded Iraq because of 9-11 and trying to make that connection. And finally, to the person who didn't understand how one can be a vegetarian and feed one's pets raw food. Here's how it works. Cats are obligate carnivores and I am not. I make the choice to be vegetarian and my cat does not - how in the world can we compare our digestive systems with a feline or canine's? I too agree that there are raw food advocates who are overbearing, but that happens in every group and unless someone asks me, I don't talk about my cats' raw food diets.
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LMAO
[Read the article: The beef over pet food]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I'm confused as to why LMAO feels he/she is held to our standards. He/she was the one who raised the dichotomy of people like myself who are vegetarian and feed cats raw food. The standards I set are for myself only and I don't believe I impose/project those onto others. Too bad that LMAO needs to use derogatory ways to describe our diversity.
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raw food
[Read the article: The beef over pet food]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Patricia - if you're concerned about your dog eating manure (and from your post, I couldn't tell if you were), try feeding him/her plain, whole milk yogurt. Often, dogs eat other creatures' poop because they're lacking something in their diets and yogurt is a great remedy for that.
LMAO - you're getting tiresome with your insults. I'd be interested to know what you really think and what's beneath the insults and name calling.
RE: income and raw food. I'd define myself as middle class, live very frugally. Please don't make assumptions about raw food advocates' incomes. It's so trite and hackneyed. I've forgone certain things I used to enjoy so that I can afford to feed my pets a raw food diet.
I may be opening a whole can of worms here, but no one has mentioned the vaccination controversy. There is more and more evidence (regarding felines) that there's an increase in cancerous tumors at vaccination sites on a cat's body. Anybody out there that has an opinion?
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raw food
[Read the article: The beef over pet food]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I too no longer get my cats vaccinated although it was initially a challenge to find a vet who'd agree to this. For those who are contemplating the cessation of vaccinations, I found that it wasn't very productive to talk to receptionists at veterinary practices who seemed unwilling to veer from the standard practice of "you have to have them vaccinated because it's illegal not to" but rather, to talk to the actual vet herself/himself.
I forwarded the raw food article to my cats' vet, who practices both Western and complementary medicine and this was her response:
"Not all diets are good for all animals! That being said, if there are no contraindications then I advise raw..with bones for example from Bravo...and there are other companies as well. Yes there are risks which I insist that the owners informs themselves about but if a raw diet is appropriate for that animal and they'll eat it then yes by all means"
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vaccinations
[Read the article: The beef over pet food]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Cosmicmojo - I was wondering if you could tell me how my cats would contract rabies if they're indoor. Raccoons hiding out in the dryer? A rabid fox getting a key to the house while we're at work?
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Vaccinations
[Read the article: The beef over pet food]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Oy vey, Cosmicmojo! I do thank you for your kindness at not calling me a jerk and for not judging my morality, although I didn't know that refusal to vaccinate one's cats was a moral issue. Now, what my cats and I do in private when everyone else is asleep .. well, that might be a moral issue. The scenarios you present are just not plausible. My vet is a smart cookie though. She has a sign in her waiting room that specifically says "please keep cats in carriers" and unless I get high from the aromatherapeutic scent, I and her other clients usually pay close attention to that sign. If we lived life with a "what if" attitude, many of us would not leave the house in the morning, although when I get home after work tonight, I'm going to have a word with those squirrels and tell them "no scratching in MY backyard".