Tina in British Columbia had responded to an earlier blog that she couldn’t imagine how I could continue to crusade against dry cat food against all the opposition from cat lovers themselves. When I wrote her back that it was the shared conviction of people like her that inspired me, she wrote back once again as follows:
Thank you Tracie for responding to my reply: that was very nice of you. I guess being on the internet on different sites like Catster I get shot down a lot in the forum discussions, so that is what frustrates me. It just makes plain sense to me to feed our pets a species appropriate diet, not kitty krack!
I know though that I have helped a lot of cats in the last 2 years, so I’ll just keep on trying. Thank you for the signed bookplate you offer and my cats Shadow and Wilson look forward to getting it. Another question though is it all right for me to give your website link to people on Catster for nutrition info? Or to subscribe to your podcasts? Also it seems that I always get the question about the vets that I get my info from, they want credentials, and bios. I wonder where I can find this info? As they seem to think that I get this info from people that are not educated enough. Also I’ve just read the book Not Fit for a Dog, and it was excellent. I already have 3 people waiting to borrow it.
I hope that maybe you will write another book too.
Dear Tina – Delighted to hear back from you and will be sending your autographed bookplate along with samples for some important additions to your kitties’ diets, like Nordic Naturals omega-3 fish oil and Platinum Performance joint supplement. It’s funny that you should have problems on the Catster forum because I write a daily tip for Catster that goes to those who’ve signed up for it, and I haven’t had a lot of resistance to ideas I’ve put out there, but I think forums in general can get sort of overheated and discouraging. OF COURSE send them to my website, there’s no better place for them to get the messages they need to hear! And the podcast of DOG TALK® often has cat-related guests and callers, so that’s a great resource, too. As far as skeptical vets or others who are threatened by novel nutritional theories (i.e. logical concepts about obligate carnivores that threaten what they learned to sell out of a bag in vet school) you can steer them to my book and to Dr. Elizabeth Hodgkins book YOUR CAT (she also was a co-author of Not Fit for a Dog.) On my website there is also a listing of cat nutrition-related websites like the one run by Dr. Lisa Pierson, a vet renowned for her championing of feline nutrition with her website www.catinfo.org. Another excellent site is www.catnutrition.org. These two and other sites can be accessed through www.felineoutreach.com.
Tracie
The Cat Bible
