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"Cats Are Carnivores!"
For those who have seen through the highly effective brainwashing that pet food companies have subjected us to, this book is a must-have. Cats, as obligate carnivores (meaning they MUST eat a raw meat based diet to be healthy), do very poorly on cooked grain-based foods. This book shows how to give them a proper diet based on raw meat and bone, which will result in lean, muscular, extremely healthy and beautiful animals who shed less, and leave a LOT less odor in the litter box. Cats fed this way are also more resistant to disease, and require fewer vet visits.

There are lots of other excellent books on how to feed a raw, species-appropriate diet to dogs and... More > cats, but none of them are nearly as good on the CAT side. Michelle Bernard's book is best by far. She understands better than other authors how the dietary needs of cats and dogs differ. She also dispels the two most common fears people have about raw-feeding such as "Won't they get sick from the bacteria in raw meat?" and "Aren't bones dangerous?". I ask: What do you think they eat in the wild??? The truth is, the strong stomach acid of a cat will kill most excess bacteria, and what it misses passes through their short digestive tract so quickly that nothing has a chance to proliferate. As for bone, only COOKED bone splinters - raw bone does not. (And bone can be ground, for those who can't get over that worry.) In short, this is what they're MADE TO EAT! (Or at least as close as we can get, short of providing live prey.) Does it really make sense to feed COOKED GRAINS AND VEGETABLES to an animal that's designed to digest RAW MEAT AND BONE? Conventional pet foods couldn't BE more OPPOSITE to what cats need!

I could write a tome about how important this information is for cat owners, but I'll only say further that my own two kitties, who came to me as sickly 12-week old kittens, have been fed this way from the day I got them. They just had their 4th birthday, and aside from other raw-fed cats I have met, they are by far the most beautifully healthy cats I've ever seen!

If you're more than just a "casual" cat owner, please get this book! Feeding this diet does entail a bit more work than pouring a cup of kibble into a bowl, but the benefits make it worthwhile. Your kitties will LOVE you for it, and you'll feel very good about giving them REAL food!
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"Raising Cats Naturally" Thanks to using Michelle's book and food recipes, my two 17 year old cats are still very active and looking 1/2 their age. Michelle's experience and love of animals really shines through in this book and every cat owner should read it and follow her feeding guidelines if they want their animals to be in tip-top shape. Over the years Michelle's expertise and book have been invaluable. My two elderly ladies are forever grateful!

"Fantastic!" Using the homemade raw recipe in this book, I have now worked with five cats with gasto-intestinal disorders (IBD) - two of them slated for euthanasia when conventional veterinary medicine could not help them - and ALL of them have made a 100% turn-around and are now symptom-free! I've also worked with seven diabetics and all have either gone off insulin entirely or needed much lower doses. I personally share the companionship of nine cats, the youngest of which is 10, the eldest 19, and they all do fantastic on Michelle's homemade diet.

The book is thorough, yet easy-to-read, and I know it will be one of my most treasured, and often referred to books.

"Very Imformative. Your cat will thank you." This book really opened my eyes and will help any newbie raw feeder learn about a cat's nutritional needs and get you the knowledge you need to go down that raw feeding path. I wish I had learned about raw feeding earlier before one of my cat had to suffer from FLUTD. I find myself apologizing to my cats for my ignorance.

"Raising Cats Naturally" Michelle Bernard has written the definitive book on natural cat care! You really don't need any information about raising healthy cats that you cannot find in this book. It is my Bible for cat care. Margaret Park