Question:
My 14-year-old Maine coon mix recently showed signs of diabetes. I immediately stopped all of his dry food, "greenies" and wheat bran I had been giving him for constipation.
I put him on Wellness canned food, and all of the symptoms ceased. His urine tests negative for glucose. I have begun giving him flaxseed oil because he over-grooms and sheds a bit. Is the flaxseed oil OK? Or should I switch to "good-quality fish oil," as you recommend?
B.R., New York, NY May 02, 2010
Answer:
Your letter is confirmation that regular high-grain-content dry cat foods are making cats ill with diabetes and other serious health problems. A pox on the peddlers of such foods!
Only animal fats and oils have the spectrum of essential fatty acids that are lacking in flaxseed and other vegetable oils. Aside from bottom-of-the-food-chain sources like spirulina, put your cat on good-quality fish oil like Nordic Naturals and New Chapter products. Butter, yogurt and eggs from grass-fed, free-range animals and their meat also have more omega-3 fatty acids than from conventionally fed animals raised in cruel factory farms.
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