Health problems in cats are often considered to just be bad luck or genetic issues. Nothing could be further from the truth.

To understand why neither bad luck nor genetics come into this, we need to compare our domestic cats with wild cats. This is because it will give us the clue, or the cause. Without understanding the cause of problems, you'll never be able to cure.

As Einstein is famous for saying, you need a different consciousness to find the solutions that was used to create problems.

To translate this further, treating the effect of any problem is taking you down blind allays.

The majority of health problems in cats, and in everyone, starts with the diet. The diet has to be in keeping with that particular species evolution. You cannot say one diet fits every species. It's all about how they evolved, what their anatomy and physiology tells us.

The right diet provides the backbone to health. No one can be healthy without it. An analogy is if you put diesel fuel into a jet and then expected it to preform well. It's doubtful it would perform at all.

No-one doubts that wild cats hunt and consume prey. Their anatomy and physiology is perfected adapted to this:

• the sharp spiky teeth to crush bones and tear meat off bones
• the strong stomach acid to digest the raw meat and bones
• the short intestines that are perfect for absorbing the ingested food

Domestic cats need the same diet to thrive.

When they have it, they thrive; their coat gleams, their energy is more like that of a young kitten, they enjoy wonderful health.

Commercial cat food not only doesn't come close to what cats need nutritionally, despite all the claims and clever advertising, they are mostly toxic.

Toxins come from chemicals. When you look at the ingredients on most commercial cat foods, they list supplements.

If you are selling a food, but have to add in supplements, straight away you might wonder why. In commercial cat food, it's because the food is very poor quality and nutritionally bankrupt.

The supplements added to commercial cat food are the synthetic ones, made mostly from petro-chemicals. These are toxic over time, from their accumulation.

In addition, there will be preservatives, although these are either not listed or hidden in safe sounding ingredients. It doesn't mean they are not in the food.

The public is waking up to the fact preservatives are harmful. 

The first thing most people do when they encounter health problems in cats of any sort, is to rush to their veterinarian.

Whilst vets should be the perfect people to help you, and the holistic ones very often are, you can't get away from the fact that most veterinary schools are heavily funded by the p-harmaceutical companies.

Their idea of health is to match a drug to the problem without ever looking for causes.

To give you an example, when you feed a cat from kittenhood on a quality raw meat and bones diet, they'll rarely suffer with stomatitis, an every growing very painful problem in domestic cats.

No treatment necessary as the problem doesn't arise.

The veterinary treatment involves toxic drugs.

Of course, it doesn't end there, but the food and the health care, with all their toxins, are major hurdles to vitality.

Once you start on the journey of feeding your cat the way they evolved, everything will improve. No necessary completely, but enough to see a difference.

This can be a double blessing as the more healthy your cat is, the less likely you'll need to make trips to the vet.

When a local association swapped the diet of their dogs from commercial to raw, they saw a drop in vet bills by 80%.

That's something most people would like.

Many people try to treat their cat themselves, when they encounter health problems. 

Whilst this is an admirable desire, it's not something I would encourage. At least not until you have the basics sorted out and have a pretty fair knowledge of what you're doing.

There is one thing that only you can do. And that's changing the diet. No one, however learned or experienced, can do that for you. They can advice, but you have to put it into practice.

Although changing the diet can look like a hurdle, it really isn't when you appreciate a cat's needs. Discover how easy it can be....