Author: Jeff McFarlane

If you read my column regularly (thank you), you know I’m a real/raw food advocate. Most of my columns on nutrition have focused on our canine companions but today I’m going to focus on cats. Cats are obligate carnivores – meaning they do not properly digest plants. There may be an argument about whether dogs are carnivores or omnivores, but there is no debate that cats are carnivores and require a diet heavy on meat. The first dry/canned cat foods caused many issues because they did not contain enough taurine, an essential amino acid for cats, either because the ingredients…