Archive for April, 2011

3 Easy Steps to Cure Cat Urinary Infection

A cure for cat urinary infection is easy, painless and thorough. In this article, you will learn three easy steps for relieving your cat’s misery, curing the infection and preventing it from recurring.

The first step in the ‘cure cat urinary infection’ regimen is to feed your cat healthy, organic pet food. The reason for this is that most cat food is full of preservatives and fillers that can alter the pH level of the bladder. When the pH level is out of kilter, bacteria can multiply and grow and bladder stones can form. Keep in mind that processed food is to cats as junk food is to humans.

The best way to find healthy pet food is to read the label. You can purchase organic cat food from your health food store, vet and even the grocery store. Look for brands that contain real meat, not byproducts, fillers or processed grains. Although organic cat food is more expensive than processed brands, your cat will need to eat less to get much needed nutrients, so in the long run, the cost will even out.

The second step in the cure cat urinary infection program is to give your pet plenty of fresh, clean water. Water flushes out the urinary system and prevents toxins from building up. Make sure you give your cat filtered water rather than tap water (you can purchase an inexpensive tap filter) because tap water is full of chemicals and as you learned in the paragraph above, chemicals compromise the pH of the bladder which creates an environment that allows bacteria to proliferate.

The third step is to give your cat a holistic remedy made specifically to heal urinary tract infections. These remedies contain  proven herbs like Uva Ursi and Cantharis that soothe inflamed tissues, restore the proper pH to the bladder stopping infection in its tracks and flush toxins from the bladder. These remedies cure cat urinary infection by giving the body the nutrients it needs to heal itself quickly, safely and effectively. Better still, they have no side effects. Since they are gentle, they can also be used as a daily prevention program for cats who are prone to urinary issues.

So there you have it: a simple, safe three step cure for cat urinary infection program that does not involve drugs or painful procedures and will not cost you a fortune in vet bills. Take action now and get your beloved cat on the road to health and wellness.

Laura Ramirez is a longtime researcher of holistic remedies which heal disorders and keep pets vibrant and healthy. Find out more about safe, effective ways to maintain your pet’s urinary tract health at www.pet-ut-health.com.

Preventing Cat Nasal Cancer Naturally

Cat nasal cancer occurs infrequently but it when it does strike, it is usually with deadly results.  Tumors can develop in either the nasal cavity itself or in the frontal sinuses.  While nasal cancer does not usually spread, it is almost always malignant.  Like all forms of feline cancer, the best way to avoid it is by doing everything you can to ensure the overall good health of your cat.

The main difficulty in identifying and treating feline nasal cancer is that the symptoms do not manifest quickly.  Symptoms can remain dormant for as long as five years, by which time the cancer will have moved long past the treatable stage.   The symptoms of nasal cancer vary depending on the location of the tumor.  Tumors within the nasal cavity itself can cause nasal discharge and sneezing, while those in the frontal sinuses can cause heavy breathing, changes in the sound of the voice, and sometimes even facial deformity.

If you suspect that your pet may be suffering from cat nasal cancer, you should get it to the vet as quickly as possible for a thorough examination.  The only way to accurately diagnose nasal cancer is with a range of tests including blood tests, a biopsy and a CT or MRI.   Unfortunately, once a diagnosis is made the likelihood of successful treatment is slim.

Treatment of feline nasal cancer usually consists of a combination of radiation and chemotherapy.   In some cases, surgical extraction of the tumor may be possible but because the nasal cavity in cats is actually quite deep, tumors are often out of reach of most surgical procedures.   Even with radiation and chemotherapy, survival is usually limited to several weeks at most.

As with most forms of cancer, the key to fighting cat nasal cancer is prevention.  The more you can do to ensure your cat’s overall health, the better the chances that it will be able to avoid developing cancer or other serious illness.  This means feeding it a proper, balanced diet free of artificial preservatives and colorings, and making sure it has unlimited access to a clean water source.

Another important step in preventing feline nasal cancer and other illnesses is making sure that your cat has access to the healing power of nature.  Many plants and herbs can prove helpful in terms of strengthening the immune system, ensuring proper liver function and maintaining the health of the lymphatic system, all keys to fighting off cancer.  In the wild, animals will be naturally drawn to these plants.  In order to reap their benefits, domestic pets require some intervention by their owners in the form of natural supplements.

There are a range of products available which combine the best nature has to offer, including plants like Milk Thistle, Mistletoe and Echinacea.  These plants and others like them work to supply your cat with the nutrients, antioxidants and other substances it needs to fight cat nasal cancer, while strengthening the immune system and promoting vitality.

No-one likes to consider the idea of watching their pet battle cancer.  With the help of natural supplements, you can give your pet the tools it needs to live healthy and be happy.  Make the natural choice today and you can help your pet avoid cancer altogether.

Laura Ramirez is a passionate researcher of products that help restore health and vitality to pets and people and keep their immune system strong for prevention. To learn more about her findings, go to www.pet-health-supplements.com.

What is the Most Nutritious Cat Food

Not that long ago, everyone relied on an ‘expert’ for guidance. Teachers were thought to have the best interests of the future generation at heart. Doctors were considered the best people to entrust with your health. Likewise with veterinarians for animal health.

This may have been good for the time.

But it made some people very powerful. And, inevitably, this power corrupted.

So, in time, good welfare was the last thing on some of these professionals minds. Good income was, and is, more important.

The advent of the internet is slowly changing all that.

But it can still be a maze, working out what is the most nutritious cat food you can feed your cat to make sure she has a healthy, trouble free and long life.

Pretty packets and cans can (and do) easily influence many people.

Impressive words such as ‘balanced nutrition’, ‘fortified with x for a longer life’ can easily lure people in if you are still stuck in the idea that ‘experts’ know more than you do.

After all, they’ve got a degree to prove they know more, haven’t they?

Degree or no degree, you can slash your way through the maze more effectively if you consider just two points.

Cats have been fed various forms of commercial cat food for a mere trifle compared with their evolution, perhaps 100 years. But in those years, cats have been more needed as mousers or ratters than pets. So it’s probably a lot less. A cat is a true carnivore, a true hunter. They will never be content without raw meat. Whatever you think of this idea, this is how cats evolved. This is their true nature.

It is essential that you take this concept into consideration in your ponderings of what is the most nutritious cat food.

You’ll be happy to know that to feed a cat according to his nature, it is not necessary to go out hunting mice and rats (although prey size is relevant).

Keeping this concept firmly in your mind, you can now see that you are easily able to cut through all the chanting salesmen, trying to gain access to your dollars.

Now you can avoid all the harmful fillers from China, all the toxic chemicals you’re afraid may be in a packet of ‘nutritious’ cat food. Now you don’t need to rely on anyone else. Or worry about how ethical a producer may be.

Whenever you want to reaffirm what is the most nutritious cat food, you just go back to this concept.

Cats need raw meat (and bones) to live a trouble free and long life. That’s how they evolved.

Cats need a diet of 95% raw meat and bones.

Not 30% low grade cooked meat by-products, 65% cheap filler and 5% toxic preservatives and synthetic ‘nutrients’ that can’t be digested.

So now, when someone asks you what is the most nutritious cat food, you can answer easily and with great confidence, whether or not you finished high school, let alone have a degree.

It’s common sense.

Written by Madeleine Innocent.
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The Dangers An Outside Cat Faces

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Chuck Swope

I inherited 3 kittens when the mama cat placed them in my attic and then I had to go fetch them out before they died in the heat of that unused, unfinished attic. They belonged to the neighbors across the street but they said they didn’t want them so I took them in. I place them on the floor on the downstairs of the outside opening to that attic. The mama cat was content to nurse them and take care of them there. When they were about 6 months old they began scratching and meowing at my kitchen door, so I let them in. I fixed the screen door so they could go in and out as they pleased.

The Wire And Cat Wars

I didn’t like the fact that they could jump on top of the 6 foot wall and leave the yard as they pleased, so I began to sting wire and leaning it in on the inside of those walls. They still went in and out as they pleased. I began hanging all kinds of bottles and plastic containers on the wall to try and discourage them. After a while I had a real mess and the city made me take it all down. Two of the cats stayed in the back yard most of the time and seldom forayed out of it. Not so with my Yellow cat. He roamed at will and all the time. I always called him in before I went to bed at night and he always came.

But bad things can happen to cats like him. He can get hit by a car. He could be the victim of mean spirited humans. I had a friend who had one of her cats shot in the head by some teenager wielding a BB gun. The poor thing died. They can be attacked by dogs. Several cats in my neighborhood met that fate. And they can get in fights with other cats. And that is precisely what happened to my big yellow.

One day I noticed he was furiously licking at the fur on his neck. I took a look and to my horror I discovered a big hole in his neck. That was a $500 surgery and a couple of months recovery time. Against the protestations of my wife, I let him out again when he had recovered. I told her he had been born outside and it wasn’t fair to keep him in all the time. Well, things went swimmingly for about 6 months and then it happened again. Another $500 surgery. This was getting too expensive and I was afraid he would end up getting himself killed.

I agreed to try and keep all 3 of them inside all the time. It took a few months for them to completely settle down. But I bought them a lot of cat toys including a cat tree and i’m happy to report they are pretty well content now. And so am I. Because when they were outside, I fretted and worried until I got them all in for the night. Now I have peace of mind and 3 healthy cats that no longer face the dangers of the unknown that lurks just outside the perimeters of my yard.

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The Horrors Of Cat Declawing

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I overheard a friend of mine talking about getting his cat declawed.

“Why would you want to do a thing like that?” I asked.

He explained that his wife had ordered new furniture and didn’t want the cat scratching it up.

“Do you know what you are in for?” I asked.

He shrugged. “I don’t know what you mean.”

I started listing the reasons cats need their claws.

Business.

“I don’t get it. Business?”

I explained further. “When a Cat goes to the bathroom, we call it doing their business, did you ever notice how they cover up the mess?”

“Sure. Everyone knows cats do that.”

“Well their claws come into play for that function. Without the claws that function becomes time consuming and hard for them.”

“Gosh, I didn’t realize that. What else?”

Stretching And Running

I explained to him that the claws come into play when a Cat stretches or runs. He told me that was another thing he hadn’t realized.

Jumping

Your Cat needs its claws to jump. He will have a hard time jumping without them. And that was one more thing he didn’t know about cats and their claws.

Defending

“Your cat needs those claws to defend itself against predators.”

“What kind of predators? He asked.

“Dogs for one thing.”

“I gotcha there,” he almost screamed. My cat stays inside. We don’t let her out.”

“Nevertheless, I said patiently. There will be a time when your cat gets out. When that happens, she could get in serious trouble. She won’t be able to jump or climb to escape, and she sure won’t be able to fight, without her claws.”

“Nah. Never happen. We keep a close eye on her.”

Three days later he told me that his cat had slipped out when a neighbor came to the door. “We got her back the next morning and she’s okay. I guess it’s good she still had her claws. A big dog chased her and she climbed a tree to escape. What else do cats need claws for?”

“Well, I said, they need their claws to stay the same cat you know and love.”

“I don’t get it.”

I explained further. “Your cat will be miserable without her claws. Think about how you would feel if all your fingernails and toenails were ripped out.”

“Ouch, I don’t think I would like that.”

“Exactly. Without it’s claws, your cat will be miserable and her personality will change drastically.”

“In what way,” he asked.”

“She will be become more and more aggressive, and may start biting you and your wife.”

“I sure don’t want that. I better tell my wife to cancel the furniture.”

“Don’t do that. Just get some of those slip on cat pads to cover her paws.”

“Now that sounds like just the ticket.” He thanked me and started dialing his cell phone to tell his wife the good news.

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This Just Makes Me Ill And Mad

New Evidence Has emerged In The Case Of A Bullitt County Man Who is Charged with mutilating And torturing Cats.

The man, Alex Phelps said He got the cats from Craigslist and according to police was doing some sort of Medical research.

When first questioned by Detectives, the 24 yr old, denied torturing and killing the cats.

“There is no way i’m capable of doing that” Phelps said.

Phelps said later that either aliens had done it or he was possessed or he had lost his memory. “Because I have killed no cats” he insisted.

Police say there is plenty of evidence against Phelps.

When police asked why a cat carrier was covered in blood Phelps said he had an interest in medicine and wanted to be famous for curing something.

Phelps said he didn’t have the money to go to medical school and admitted doing some kind of medical research on the cats.

“If it’s not torture or mutilating, what word would you use? asked the Detective.

“Dissecting,” Phelp said.

Phelps later admitted he severed the artery that went to the brain and that the cats died of asphyixiation.

A medical report from the coroner’s office say four cats they performed autopsies on died from multiple stab wounds

Phelps told detectives he believed the cats could heal each other with their minds.

Phelps also admitted to sometimes using Marijuana and admitted to killing at least four cats and dumping thir bodies into a dumpster.

In March a Bullitt County Grand Jury Indicted Phelps on five counts of animal torture. He already faces four counts of animal torture in Louisville.

He’s being held and will be back in court on May 23rd.

Editorial Comment: What A Monster!


MY NEW CAT BOOK

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