We understand that feeding your cat is becoming a real problem for cat owners to solve.
The network is teeming with advice on proper nutrition, diets, opposing sides of the argument about certain basic choices and different lines of thought.
Often, after extensive research into domestic cat feeding, the feeling of confusion grows instead of dissolving.
We read about what your cat eats in the wild and what foods she needs to eat in order to grow healthily. The same source, more or less authoritative, ends up suggesting the dry or wet food of this or that brand, comparing quality to quality, concluding in fact, for a number of reasons, even reasonable, by recommending balanced foods, but still industrial.
As a last resort then we turn to our vet of confidence, but often the same appears to our eyes unable to give us advice and guidelines or clarify our doubts, in a definitive and comprehensive way, about the feeding of the kitten.
Most of the time, unfortunately, it is a matter of advice well "aligned" with the principles of this or that pharmaceutical company or pets-food manufacturer. It is as if our vet wanted, in the best of the hypotheses, to launch us some inputs about a healthy home-made alimentation, but in the gait of our questions about it, probably he will end up, also, with taking one of the catalogues of a manufacturer of pets-food, advising us a Prescription-Diet, in fact,...industrial.
Rarely do we find veterinarians who decide not to delegate their professionalism and knowledge to the dictates imposed by the market, the industry and the cat food business.
We will try to make a bit of clarity in this complicated world and we will try to dictate some
Cat feeding - General guidelines
If you want to seriously address the problem of feeding your cat, you have to start from a series of fundamental distinctions.
First of all, let's talk about "domestic cat" and let's make the first important distinction with the original feline species: "African wild cat" or felis Silvestris.
Original feline species Felis Silvestris or African wildcat
The cat that lives in our homes was domesticated by man 9000-10000 years ago for purposes related to the preservation of agriculture and the protection of wheat crops from rodents.
It has been a long time since then, therefore, that this wonderful animal lives in close contact with the man and with him it establishes a real and proper "relationship".
Countless literary, historical and art world sources on the link between man and cat confront us with the fact that this is a truly special relationship.
It is only in recent decades that the industry has shifted its focus to cats, targeting them.
Here it would be necessary to open a sociological parenthesis in order to demonstrate that the alimentary needs of the cat have changed because the social needs of the man have changed, and therefore all that is happening to our furry cats is nothing else than "a blow of tail" of what happens to the human race in its totality and globality.
I think we can easily widen the discord from the diseases of which the man gets sick to the diseases of which his domestic cat suffers and find many interesting points of reflection, but we will postpone all this to another post.
We need only, for now, the cue to understand that the cat gets sick, in fact, for a wrong diet and various intoxications and that these problems are not very far from the situations of risk and diseases of 'modern man.
The distinction between "domestic cat" and "original wild cat" is followed by another one, equally important, in our opinion: that between a modern wild cat and a stray cat.
This point is fundamental for those who were approaching the world of cats for the first time.
It is often said:
"It's not me who wanted a cat, it's him who chose me"...
well, if the cat that has approached you is a wild cat, it is an untamed feline that has never had contact with man. It is difficult in such a case to speak of an appropriate feeding.
This does not mean that we do not recommend the adoption of a wild cat, but it is advisable to warn those who decide to take care of it because, before talking about food, we should consider that this would certainly not be the easiest adoption to manage for those who do not know the feline world at all.
Wild cats take a long time to learn to trust 'man, it takes a lot of patience, learns the rhythms of the cat and prepare a suitable environment, all this often contrasts openly with the principles mentioned above, principles closely related to the habit
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