Out of the desert, on to the sofa
Cats' DNA reveals time and place of domestication.
Domestic cats have been worshiped as gods, reviled as devils and cherished as companions. News@nature.com looks at the feline family tree to find out when and where humans began to welcome cats into their homes.
Read the story here.
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It is very interesting that cats haved lived for 130,000 years. Although the domestic cat is not endangered it is suffering from diabetes, dilated cardiomyopathy, cystitis, ibd, struvite crystals, kidney failure, cancer and many other illnesses becaus it is being fed pet food laden with carbohydrate which its ancestors would never have eaten. It is fed pet food that has nothing like the level of protein a cat needs but which has up to 50% carbohydrate although the cat does not even have the salivary amylase necessary to digest carbohydrate and has very little pancreatic amylase because Mother Nature never intended the cat to be fed dry carbohydrate laden pet food. Veterinary research shows that tinned pet food is also causing illness in the domestic cat such as hyperthryoidism. Veterinarian, Dr. Elizabeth Hodgkins DVM has written a book entitled "Your Cat" in which she says it is not only wrong but dangerous to feed carbohydrate laden dry food to cats and she details all the illness that this is needlessly giving cats. Vets are failing cats by condoning and selling this food. Veterinary schools are being funded by pet food companies and they are even being allowed to teach nutrition to veterinary students as disclosure from the veterinary schools shows and the result is that the cat is suffering all kinds of illness which its wild ancestors would not get since cats fed raw food would not get Type II diabetes, the serious bladder problems which can kill cats, dilated cardiomyopathy which veterinary research shows is being caused by feeding pet food laden with rice which interferes with the taurine levels of the cat and gives it dilated cardiomyopathy. Dr. Elizabeth Hodgkins DVM finds that taking diabetic cats off dry food gets them off insulin and can even cure them but the majority of Vets leave the cats on dry food and insulin. She finds that taking cats off dry food stops the struvite crystals which can stop the cat passing urine and kill it within 24 hours if it is not catheterised.
All these problems are to be discussed at a meeting in the House of Commons with David Taylor MP and Professor Sheila Crispin, President of the Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons since veterinary research shows that pet food is giving the cat serious and even fatal illness and that the pet food companies putting acidifiers in the pet food is giving them metabolic acidosis and calcium oxalate stones which cause kidney failure. The veterinary profession is betraying the modern day cat by condoning and selling pet food and by telling clients to feed the pet food the Vet sells. Vets should tell clients their cat is a carnivore and as such msut be fed the raw food that Mother Nature intended. Dr. Francis Pottenger did research in which he fed 450 cats raw food only for 10 years and a control group of 450 cats were fed cooked food only for 10 years and the result was that the cats fed raw food only did not get a single illness while the cats fed the cooked food got a whole litany of illnesses and had immensely weakened immune systems. This shows that the domestic cat must be fed the raw food Mother Nature intended it to eat for it to remain well. On the pet food my Vet told me to feed my cats 3 of them got cancer, one life-threatening struvite crystals and one cystitis and kidney failure. Pet food is killing the modern day cat.
Posted by: Fiona MacMillan | June 30, 2007 05:28 PM
very interesting. Dates are off, though.
Posted by: jacobus, lee | July 4, 2007 06:44 AM
Very interseting. I wonder whether our canine friends have a similar problem
Posted by: Francis Walford | August 15, 2007 05:58 PM