Caring for your cat is easy when you try to remember her origins. Being domesticated doesn't mean you should abandon how she would live in the wild. Cats have evolved in the wild over millennia. They have been domesticated for a mere trifle in comparison.

This means that their nutritional and emotional needs remain identical to those of their forebears. In attempting to provide the best cat care means looking at these needs.

Lets look at their nutritional needs first.

Wild cats hunt on their own. They hunt small animals, sometimes up to about their own size, but mostly smaller than themselves. They rarely eat anything other than freshly killed meat.

Contrasting this with a typical domestic cat's diet of dried pellets and you realise how off the mark commercial pet food is. Even if dried pellets were made with the best cuts of meat (which they aren't), the meat is still not fresh or raw.

So, if you're trying to provide the most complete cat care, what should you feed your cat?

In my opinion, the best cat food is raw meat and bones. You can't completely duplicate a wild cat's diet, but you can come so close as to not compromise her health. Cat care starts with food as this is consumed daily. Something done daily has much more impact on our health than say something that only happens once a year.

When a cat eats her prey, she will eat all the meat, including the bones. Bones are the best source of calcium for a cat. And meat can only be properly digested when it is consumed with bones. After all, all carnivores eat meat with bones.

Not only that, crunching up on bones is the best way of keeping her teeth and gums healthy, as long as they're not too big. No dried pellets can do that as well, despite the promises on the label.

Some think that giving a cat raw meat will trigger their hunting instinct. In my experience, it does the exact opposite. Because raw meat is nutrient dense, your cat will be satisfied and won't feel the need to supplement her diet as when fed a nutrient deficient diet.

Natural cat care also means providing your cat with her basic emotional and physical needs. Cats are intelligent and inquisitive. They need visual stimulation. This is best served by being outdoors, where nature provides an abundance of stimulation.

If it's impossible or too dangerous to let your cat outside, do make sure she has access to safe stimulants, perhaps in the form of toys. Make sure you play with her to ensure she gets adequate exercise.

Sun is an important aspect of good cat care. Cats love the sun and it is essential to good health for all of us, not just your cat. Regular outdoor access will allow her to choose for herself. For confined cats, make sure there are times when you can open a window (safely) to allow the sun's rays in, unhindered by glass or plastic.

Easy cat care really means allowing your cat the freedom she desires. Confining cats indoors is going against good animal husbandry,

I am also of the opinion that declawing cats is not only painfully inhumane, it deprives the cat of the natural joy of stretching. If you are considering declawing your cat, maybe you should also consider having a cat is not for you. Cats have already adapted a great deal to live with us. Putting them through an unnecessary, inhumane and painful operation is purely for your benefit, not your cats.

Cats provide us with an abundance affection, love and enjoyment. To provide even adequate cat care, we should at least do the same for them.

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Are you as tired as I am of sales pitches? So, below is a story about one of my dogs. Has nothing to do with sales. I hope you like it. If so let me know and I'll send some more about my other two dogs.

My wife and I have three dogs, but today I am only going to talk about one of them. The others, I'll save for another day. So, without further to do, the first dog we acquired was a rescue puppy, which we named Cimi--short of cinnamon, because she is a cinnamon color. She is half Golden Retriever and half Chow. She is of medium size like a Chow, with a curled up tail, but has the personality of a Retriever.

She is so smart that we didn't have to house-break her, because she house-broke herself. When she got older, we discovered that she understood every word we said. If fact, if we want to say something in front of her that we don't want her to know, we have to spell it. I've heard a lot of similar stories about having to spell things in front of dogs, but the difference with Cimi, is that she learned how to spell some words, like, "W.A.L.K". If we were to say something such as, "It's time to take you know who for a W.A.L.K", her ears would perk up and she'd starts to whine and run back a forth to the door.

She also has strange eating habits. She won't eat hard dog food, unless she's starving. The vet said that dogs are genetically programmed to be able to go five days without eating, because when they lived in the wild, they never knew when they'd get their next meal. He said that when they refuse to eat, it's harder on us than on them, but when they get hungry enough they'll eat. Anyway, Cimi knows that it really upsets us when she won't eat, so what she does, is to put her head down to the bowl and pretend to eat. In the end, we finally break down before the five days are up and give her some canned dog food, which she isn't crazy about, but she will eat it. However, the only kind of canned dog food she will eat is too expensive to give her all the time. So, she finally got "us" trained. We have taken to making her food with turkey roll, rice and vegetables. She loves it, but it's really a lot of work to maintain.

Finally, and strangely enough, she has never liked to play with dog toys or do dog tricks and we were never able to teach her to fetch. When we tried, she would look at us as if to say, "You go fetch. What do you think I am – a dog". That's right, she thinks she human and so do we.

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