A client told me an interesting fact

05/03/2009 by Arielle.

Annabel was a young small cat who had recently been admitted in the hospital for tests as she was vomitting her food everyday. All the results were negative and today Annabel was in for her vaccinations. I asked the owner whether the vomitting  problem had been sorted out and she answered that yes, after all the extensive tests; the owner had worked out the problem!

She had changed Annabel’s food from Whiskas to Felix and all the vomitting stopped. The owner worked closely with the cat’s protection league and had many cats of her own. She went on to tell me something I had never heard and wondered if it could be true.

She had been told by a vet many years ago to not feed any of the rescue cats Whiskas as they added an ingredient that they would never make owners aware of - caffeine to the food. This obviously made the food addictive to our cats which meant that they would only eat this brand of food - I wonder how true this is and if it is, how deceiving!!

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