Allergies in cats are on the increase. Cats in the wild don’t suffer with allergies. But our poorly cared for domestic cats do and the problem is escalating.

Why are our domestic cats so poorly cared for? Many people feel that domestic animals are cared for better than wild ones, who have to feed, shelter and protect themselves. Surely our domestic cats are better off?

For many reasons cats fare much better in the wild. The reasons put forward here are so we can better care for those who grace us with their presence. 

Cats love nothing better than to bask in the sun, lazily swiping at a passing fly or fully engaging in the pursuit of a hunt. Nature is in perfect harmony and cats play their role, whatever your thoughts are on hunting cats.

Small animals, such as mice, breed at a high rate, providing ample food for hunting cats as well as many other animals.

This is how cats evolved. Their digestion is perfectly adapted to the whole small animal - muscles, organs, bones and all raw. Their teeth are perfectly adapted to crunching up on small, raw bones. Some cats are even good at fishing in small rock pools.

Now compare this fresh, wholesome, balanced diet of a typical wild cat to the normal commercial cat food that abounds and is heavily promoted by vets?

Typical commercial cat food, including the expensive ones, contain left over carcass rejects from human sources, usually that have been processed in a rendering plant. So the ‘meat’ is of very poor quality.

This is then bulked out with any cheap carbohydrate available. Some ‘grain-free’ cat foods contain tapioca, a carbohydrate with no protein.

Yet wild cats’ diets contain the highest possible amount of animal protein. They cannot survive (at least not in a healthy way) on anything less. If a cat’s diet is badly off course from the one they evolved on, then they cannot remain healthy, and illnesses will abound. As day follows night.

Synthetic 'supplements' are added to try to make up for the known shortfall in nutrition.

The body can't utility synthetics. However clever this may seem, it isn't food. You need food to be healthy. Not something created in a laboratory.

With a poor diet, nutrition is incomplete. When nutrition is incomplete, no-one can be healthy. So ailments abound.

With a poor understanding of how an immune system works, the veterinary (and medical) industry likes to blame outside factors - germs, pathogens, anything but the real cause.

So the drugs come out. To kill these offending micro-organisms.

All drugs are synthetic.

That means toxic.

An initial reaction could appear as an allergy. This is the body's attempt to rid itself of an alien. The immune system's way. When it is reasonably healthy and can act.

So allergies in cats could mean reasonably healthy cats. But that all too soon fades away when more drugs come out to stop the immune system doing its job.

Restoring health means supporting a healthy immune system. A healthy immune system means chronic illness fades away. Allergies in cats, allergies in anyone, anyone with anything can become a thing of the past, a bad nightmare.

The very first thing people do when faced with a health problem is to consult a medical/veterinary practitioner. They want a diagnosis. A medical condition.

When they consult an holistic practitioner, the diagnosis may be very different. A poorly functioning immune system.

Restoring health, reversing allergies in cats means looking at the cause. The daily consumption of food is one of the main causes.

And you are the only person who can change that.

Healing, restoration of health, begins in the home. A nutritious and biologically appropriate diet is the very first thing to change. And that may be all that is needed.

However, in some, additional help is needed. And natural health comes to the rescue.