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January 26th, 2009
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Since cats are true carnivores, their diet should consist almost entirely of meat, which takes many hours to digest. Therefore, a good meal once a day is ideal for a cat’s natural cycle of digestion, which naturally takes about 24 hours. Cats in the wild hunt at twilight, eat what they catch, and then sleep until dusk the next day. This allows for proper and complete digestion of a meat-based diet and elimination of the by-products. However, since our housebound cats are obviously not wild animals, we have gotten them used to eating more frequently than once a day. Also, we would probably not be comfortable feeding a cat that infrequently – it may be feline nature to gorge and fast (like a lion in the jungle), but it’ s human nature to feel good about our pets having a nice full belly! |