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Ursprungligen postat av LingonGrovan
Veterinärer får ingen vettig foderutbildning i Sverige. Den de får är *överraskning* från ett valfritt torrfoderproducerande bolag som sedan lyckligt säljer just sin mat på veterinärstationen. Dietfoder fullproppade med kolhydrater är ett gott exempel på varför man inte ska lyssna på veterinärens foderråd.
Kan hålla med om detta, tror dessutom att det gäller generellt även i övriga världen.
Jag håller inte på med BARF, jag ger mina katter torrfoder - mest pga det är praktiskt och (som jag inbillar mig) mer hygieniskt. MEN jag tror att Lingongrovan har en "point", om det nu finns ett sätt att minska plack o tandsten med diet så kan BARFande vara ett sätt.
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Ursprungligen postat av Arran
... men jag tror inte att torrfoder är helt värdelöst för tandhälsan. Tandhälsa innefattar ganska mycket.
Nedanstående är skrivet av Lisa A. Pierson, DVM (som alltså har en doktorsgrad i veterinärmedicin). Det betyder iofs inte så mycket i sammanhanget, men bara för att illustrera att det finns MÅNGA väldigt vitt skilda åsikter i frågan även bland de som faktiskt är utbildade i ämnet.
"Long-standing claims that cats have less dental disease when they are fed dry food versus canned food are grossly overrated, inaccurate, and are not supported by recent studies."
"The idea that dry food promotes dental health makes about as much sense as the idea that crunchy cookies would promote dental health in a human.
First, dry food is hard, but brittle, and merely shatters with little to no abrasive effect on the teeth. Second, a cat's jaws and teeth are designed for shearing and tearing meat - not biting down on dry kibble. Third, many cats swallow the majority of their dry food whole. "
"Raw meat is ‘tougher’ to chew than cooked meat so I prefer to use raw – or parboiled - meat to promote dental health."
"Notice the phrase “part of the diet” in the above sentence. It is very important to understand that
plain meat (ie - without bones or another source of calcium) is very unbalanced since there is minimal calcium in meat."
"When fed as a supplement to most commercial canned foods, it is safe to feed ~15% of the daily calories in the form of plain meat. For example, if a cat is eating 6 ounces of canned food per day, you could feed him 5 ounces of canned food plus 1 ounce of chunked muscle meat per day."
"And speaking of
brushing teeth, this is, by far, the best way to promote your cat's dental health. "
"Please understand that I am not saying that canned food is necessarily better for teeth than dry food. For optimal dental health, a cat should not be eating either canned or dry food since neither food type promotes a healthy oral cavity but we have to work with what is practical in a typical home setting and feeding a cat a 'whole carcass prey' diet is not terribly practical - even if it would be great for their teeth."
"The compromise is to at least give them some muscle meat to chew on, in addition to brushing their teeth if possible, and to
stop fooling ourselves into thinking that dry food promotes dental health in our cats."
"All 'dental' diets are all dry (water-depleted), all are all high in carbohydrates, and all contain species-inappropriate ingredients, and as such, even if they do impart any measurable effect on dental health, they wreak havoc on the rest of the body."
http://www.catinfo.org/
