Old age, in and of itself, doesn’t kill any living thing. There’s always a system failure eventually. Seems like in cats that’s commonly kidneys or thyroid.
Yes, but often as a result of a long diet with chronic dehydration from a kibble based diet.
The moisture cats consume is from their prey. The blood and juices of rodents and birds hydrate cats.
Canned/wet food cats tend to wind up with thyroid issues instead of kidney. (Well, sorta: there’s evidence the BPAs in cans and mercury from fish as a reason for that.)
Well this is partially true. I’m pretty sure even a cat on a perfect diet will still have very high chances of developing chronic kidney disease in old age because it is just common in cats.
Could be wrong but my understanding is that It’s partially because their kidneys are so efficient that they often get kidney disease in late age. They’re always under a super high workload.
Don’t cats often die from kidney disease? :(
Old age, in and of itself, doesn’t kill any living thing. There’s always a system failure eventually. Seems like in cats that’s commonly kidneys or thyroid.
Yes, but often as a result of a long diet with chronic dehydration from a kibble based diet.
The moisture cats consume is from their prey. The blood and juices of rodents and birds hydrate cats.
Canned/wet food cats tend to wind up with thyroid issues instead of kidney. (Well, sorta: there’s evidence the BPAs in cans and mercury from fish as a reason for that.)
Well this is partially true. I’m pretty sure even a cat on a perfect diet will still have very high chances of developing chronic kidney disease in old age because it is just common in cats.
Could be wrong but my understanding is that It’s partially because their kidneys are so efficient that they often get kidney disease in late age. They’re always under a super high workload.
yep, usually the first organ to fail in old cats, so the superpower seems to come with a drawback. edit: removed inaccurate statements
That’s why they don’t like taking baths