Handsome willie

[AussieCat1]

What a great rescue story!! Willie is a very gorgeous man and is very lucky to have landed on your doorstep!! Happy cat of the day Willie

[Medusa]

Willie, it's so good to know that you now are strong and healthy and that your gorgeous self is visible for all the world to see. It's amazing what a lot of love and good vet care can do. It sounds as though you've got a good thing going and I wish you many more happy years w/your human. Enjoy your day as COTD, handsome boy.

[catlover11]

Thank goodness your wife saw that feral is just a label that sometimes just means scared - not wild and often diseased. Bless you for saving Willie. Please let me share my discoveries the last many years volunteering at a few animal rescues/shelters. There is an epidemic of CRF (Chronic Renal Failure) and Diabetes in cats (as well as some other diseases and health issues) due to cats being overweight from eating mainly dry food. I don't know if that is the case with Willie but since it is often the case that vets prescribe or back - dry foods full of "filler" (grains, ie. rice, corn, different "meals") when cats are carnivores and need a good helping of water per day and if you watch a cat drinking, unlike a dog they do not get as much with each lick. Cats need the meat and moisture in canned food - otherwise their organs and health suffers (I have been told this by many vets and done the research). The food sold in the U.S. has regulations - such as Natural Balance, Wellness, Evo, etc. unlike some food sold in other countries, which is just full of the cheapest ingredients (chicken by-products) which would be illegal to put in human food (the animals are REALLY getting our scrap!). No laws are in force to protect our pets food in many places and it is causing poor health and worse. My cats main diet is canned food (Natural Balance Turkey) and they eat with gusto as if they have caught a mouse in the wild. Eating dry food as the main meal would be like us eating dry corn flakes all the time - ugh! Here in Canada our vets sell certain brands of pet foods with these poor quality ingredients mainly because those pet food companies give millions of dollars to vet schools - is that a bribe? Conflict of interest (our pets are not healthy on this food and who wins - the vets...).

Read the ingredients - if the first 5-8 of them are not "food" (ie meat, vegetables, fruit) then it is not worth your money - you may pay more for the good food but your pet will be healthier, happier and will be with you for a lot longer (and less vet bills).