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ah i see the heat's breaking
clouds are rolling in from the prairie gonna be a cloud verse soon restoring balance to nature
i love the great outdoors things achieve balance some days it's hot as blazes
buzzards circling waiting for me to die i ain't gonna die the rain's coming oh
hello greenhorn good to see you back you know the last time we talked i didn't like you much
you know why that is right because i don't cotton to people who feed their cats
kibble i hate the taste of that word in my mouth but you know that right because we talked about it
and i feel like we came to an understanding did we not and maybe greenhorn just maybe that's why
you're standing here today in front of all of nature all of the outdoors and in my territory
to talk about what is the next step i'll tell you wet food meat
that is what our cats should be eating so the next step in our little lesson plan is wet food
so sit down because greenhorn you don't want to know what's underneath this poncho in this holster
the quickest draw this side of the mississippi now sit down and learn something [Music]
what is up my intrepid cat mojo tears it is your ever loving cat daddy at your service jackson
galaxy let's get right into it shall we last time we talked all about dry food kibble the food the
bad and the ugly if you haven't checked out that video yet maybe you want to go over there right
over my head here and check out that one come on back and see me again sometime stranger in the
meantime if you did watch that well then let's get moving forward shall we so the last time i
was talking about dry food and let me give you the just a quick quickity quick recap why is dry food
kibble not good for your cats well number one we take meat and we fire it four or five different
times put it through extruders and mixers and little shape makers and spray it with meat
flavored stuff because it doesn't smell like meat anymore and we turn it into a nugget carbs are
through the roof and cats can't eat that much in the way of carbs their their digestive system is
uniquely designed to eat what meat and now we're having all that good meat taken out
of the meat where's the meat where's the beef anyway besides that it is the dehydration part
and cats need hydration from their food the other thing is spiking of the glycemic index
which is to say that every time a cat eats the this high level of carbs and it's unnatural food
their glycemic index shoots up and that's not good for a cat's body so that's all of these things
that uh spell trouble for your cat if they're eating a kibble diet right so that catches us up
to where we are today our next step we take that meat we keep the hydration in it we keep as much
of the good stuff in it as we can and still be convenient and that would be but i can't hear you
that's right wet food canned food whatever you want to call it prepared food in a can that's wet
that's that lays it out for you just perfectly but it really is
so much better for your cats than dry food and i'll talk to you a little bit about why [Music]
wet food one small step for cats one giant leap for bio appropriate feline nutrition
cats are obligate carnivores when they go to hunt and catch and kill and eat they are getting what
you know mouse bird lizard all of those beings are made up of at least 65 to 75 percent water
another part of the that natural raw cat diet that's also what we call the catkins diet that is
really high in meat protein tissue and fat and even bone and and everything that's part of the
prey that's protein and low in carbohydrates another thing that i really like about wet food
is the fact that there's so much variety anyone who has been walking up and down the aisles at
a pet store or browsing online you know how many brands and how many flavors and how many textures
and how much gravy or no gravy or pate or little chunky things or you know fish or fowl whatever
cats again and and everybody else for that matter thrives on variety and again in nature they would
be predating on whatever came their way and sort of at the end of variety is flavor i am in flavor
country we do so much to kibble to get it into the shape it is and to make it shelf stable and
everything it smells nothing like meat anymore and of course cats being hunters are attracted
to the smell of meat if cats are eating their natural bioappropriate diet we can start to
eliminate some of the things that we're seeing when it's unnatural for instance we switch to a
wet food diet your cats will naturally actually start losing weight and they will retain their
muscle mass but lose that bloat and i've asked this before how many obese cats have you seen out
in nature probably none or very few unless they're being fed by six neighbors another thing and i can
tell you this by personal experience been in the trenches for many years i have seen cats
reverse their diabetes without insulin or decreasing the need for insulin by switching to
the catkins diet to that wet diet away from dry if we give cats what they are uniquely designed
to eat the rest of it starts at least to take care of itself wet food is a start it's it's absolutely
right square in the middle it's not the ultimate best thing it's not the ultimate worst thing at
all it's right square in the middle now let's talk about the potential downsides why is wet
food more in the middle wet food of course doesn't have remotely the kind of high heat exposure that
dry does basically denaturing the meat so we don't see that but at the end of the process
when they're sealing up the cans yep we exposed to high heat so we've got heat exposure the second
thing is byproducts a byproduct is the part of an animal not normally eaten now that could mean
something like organs like spleens it can mean in fowl anything from feet to beaks there's a school
of thought of course that says that it's okay to eat the byproducts as long as the rest of the meat
the rest of the animal is in there because if we think about again what our cats would eat
whatever they do eat they're gonna eat the whole thing so buy products by themselves you know not
not the best thing to have in a food but again it really varies from food to food how much byproduct
is in there so labeling confusion this is a big deal and i think whether it's wet food or dry food
a lot of manufacturers most manufacturers will do what they can to manipulate things so that they
look the way you want them to look a good example is this if you look at the protein content of a
whole piece of meat and compare it to the protein in a bunch of dry food the dry food actually is
going to look like it comes out on top and why is that because we're dehydrating that food so
then it becomes more dense uh from a protein standpoint so you'll look at something in a bag
of dry food in itself and it'll say protein by dry weight or by dry volume or something like that and
labeling you can use the term chicken dinner or chicken and rice dinner or just chicken and each
one of those has a different set of rules that need to be applied to them in terms of how much
is contained in the can and then you have to go through the entire thing to figure out what's what
then you've got the list of ingredients and in what order they arrive on the label and what is
all that stuff at the end you know it's crazy how much confusion can be manufactured along with the
product i'll say this a number of times i've got great sources in the description of this video
and each one of my sources goes into detail about these things they've done a lot of investigative
reporting it's dense but it's it's a good read and one more thing about ingredients is that many many
cats unbeknownst to us a lot of the times have food allergies or food sensitivities and actually
chicken and beef can be the most common fish can be very common and we wouldn't know because a lot
of times ingredients hide within the labels of the food fish winds its way up into a lot of wet foods
and you gotta look for it because it's just sort of a cheap filler so it winds up getting in there
it's not just label confusion it's what's hiding in there and what meat sources are
hiding in there that sometimes it's kind of hard to figure out what it is and at the end of the
day i would say most canned foods are not a prey animal in a can but look at it this way it's not
just about the ingredients themselves it's about the composition of the ingredients so for instance
the best composition of the food would be 10 or under calories from carbohydrates at least 40
protein and try to stay under 50 fat content in all honesty it's a little a lot to expect
from something that costs you know sometimes under a dollar a serving let's just face it
but that said you guys i'm gonna have a little silence surrounding me right now so i can get a
little dramatic about it yeah that'll do i would much rather your cat eat the very worst wet food
on the market than the very best dry food on the market that is the truth ruth the fact jack you
know if you take a look at the pluses and minuses what i've laid out not just in this video but
the last video as well it makes sense like i said there were the drawbacks and with those drawbacks
comes our next stop our final frontier in the tour of the food and the bad and the ugly without
giving too much away i can say that the final frontier is control you know you have gone from
convenience that's not going to make your cat healthy to convenience that goes a lot further
in terms of maintaining a healthy balance in your cat and now the final frontier is full control you
have control over what goes into your cat from the ingredients to the composition the best of
all worlds sometimes it's a lot to ask and i get it but we'll get to that next time around [Music]
and the final thing that i want to touch on is something that i will touch on in a future video
because i'm so glad you guys brought this up how do i switch if you don't want my cats to be on dry
food what do you want them to be on and how do i switch well and now i'm starting to tell you
what i think is the right food for your cats how to switch i'm gonna do a full video on that after
our third part of the series um it'll be the unofficial fourth part of the series but in
the meantime the one thing i can tell you is you do anything when it comes to your cat's
nutrition slowly very slowly so that we don't have explosive poops and and upset tummies and all that
kind of thing it's tough to go from one thing to another so you just do it slowly again thank you
guys without these comments without you asking me questions like this none of this content would
exist anyway you asked for it and i do my best to got it for you all right next time like i said the
final frontier the last stop of the food the bad and the ugly check back next week in the meantime
uh tell your friends about this man everybody's cat should know what's good and bad and ugly food
and bad and ugly you know what i'm saying much like much love much mojo until next time [Music]
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