You’re very welcome, and I hope it’s helpful!

This! Yes, cats are obligate carnivores, but every one is an individual with unique physiological needs. Excess protein is passed out of the body in different ways. Diet modification could be helpful.

To best help your vet, try to get the Typical Analysis of your cat’s foods. This is different from the Guaranteed Analysis found on pet food packaging. Guaranteed Analyses offer nutrient values in minimums and maximums rather than the actual percentage of the nutrient found in the food. This is very important. A food may say 35% protein minimum in the GA, but that could be a way higher number in actuality. Since you feed wet food, I would recommend requesting these nutritional values on a dry matter basis rather than an as-is or as-fed (these mean the same thing) basis.

Not all pet food manufacturers provide the Typical Analysis for their products on their website, as it’s not legally required. If this is the case for your cat’s food, please reach out to their customer service team to ask for this information. They should have no problem providing it for you. If they do, I’d seriously recommend switching foods.

I’ve worked in veterinary medicine and as a nutritional product specialist for a pet food manufacturer. If I can help, please feel free to message me. I hope you’re able to figure this out for your kitty!

I’m sorry you’re being downvoted. I agree with you. This is our country, and it’s been established that our government isn’t acting to protect it. Ultimately, if we want to keep it, we need to be ready and willing to make sacrifices for the betterment of the future. I don’t blame people for balking at the immense personal costs this could bring, but what’s the alternative?

No one is coming to save us. We are facing a lot of frightening choices right now, but this means it’s the time for courage.

That’s part of having a cat.

Commence to jigglin’!

A piece of flourite and a water pipe.

No, probably just someone with empathy who recognizes the shit situation humans created and how it’s going to play out in the lives of New Zealand’s cats.

I’m not saying the influence of AIPAC isn’t important, but I feel like being a patronizing twat instead of seizing a moment to help educate someone on the topic isn’t a great way to welcome people to the cause.

Um, yes? Can we just all enjoy a small crumb of something steering toward the right direction?

I’ve worked in animal rescues, shelters, and at a veterinary clinic. I’ve interacted with probably hundreds of pit bulls in my life over the years, and I’ve fostered more than ten of them. My fosters were all lovely with me, other people (especially children), my resident dogs, and all my cats. One went on to become a service dog for a little boy with autism, and my last foster is now a support dog for a young adult with severe autism.

While I have met some pits with behavioral issues and different types of aggression, they are few and far between. There are many, many other breeds that have a higher percentage of individuals with dangerous behavioral issues than pit bulls.

I would encourage anyone who has such patently false ideas about these dogs to volunteer at their local shelter and get some actual experience with bully breeds. If that’s too big an ask, have a conversation with the vet techs and doctor assistants at your veterinary clinic, and ask them which breeds they have the most difficulty with during appointments. It won’t be put bulls. There is a reason that very few people that work with dogs share your opinion.

My oldest cat will bring up socks, underwear, and even tank tops from the laundry area downstairs. She lets out such mournful cries while she’s doing it. Most mornings we have to collect her harvest and take everything back downstairs, restarting the process.

Everyone needs a space for venting, so maybe this concept would let people purge and be generally more pleasant to be around?

Thank you for this comment! I have a cat with FLUTD, and this condition can become fatal quickly if not addressed.

I’d also like to add that declawing can lead to litter box avoidance, and as a consequence, inappropriate elimination in cats. Declawing doesn’t just take the nail, but it also either removes or damages he first “knuckle” bone in cats’ paws. This can result in nerve damage, which makes cats’ natural digging in substrate painful. This is one of many reasons to not declaw your cat. There is no justification for this awful surgery.

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Terminally stupid in this case.

This is important to bring up. If we want to stop being subjected to this kind of fuckery, we need to unite and vote with our dollars. I love making egg-based dishes, but there are other options. The real problem is most people struggle with the idea of making sacrifices to get what they want later. Just don’t buy eggs as an average consumer if they are that unaffordable.

In the United States, we are spoiled for choice when we shop. We’re used to being able to get what we want when we want it, and that’s led to a sense of entitlement. Eat other things, get creative. Look up effective substitutions for eggs in baking.

We don’t have to take this. So don’t.

Old enough to know better.

No worries! The climate catastrophies will get most of us well before cancer does.

Was it, though?

Hi. No. I didn’t. If you import like- minded people, you have a stronger opposition.