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fresh-cut grass to make their juices more available—that’swhere most of the nutrients are. Add the juicy pulp from yourjuicer to ground and sliced animal meats and avocado. If youare short on veggies, snip some green grass from your lawnor a flower pot if you are an apartment dweller—standardgrass is as good as wheatgrass. The veggie nutrients, fiberand microflora will do wonders for any toxic pet.Avocado. The oily fruit is a great co-anchor for any cat’s (ordog’s) diet. Mash the avocado up to make it easy for cat tolick and swallow. Some “authorities” advise that avocado istoxic to pets. I have no personal or word-of-mouth experiencewhich lends any credibility to that notion. My threeraw-fed cats have loved avocado, provided that it’s mashedup. Dogs love avocado as well. It imparts lustrous sheen toany coat of fur and helps resolve dry skin problems.Nuts and Seeds. Whole, chopped and ground raw nuts andseeds are suitable, provided that they are not old and rancid.Soft coconut flesh is also good. Nut and seed butters are verysticky, so mix them with water or a juicy blend of veggie pulpor avoid them altogether if your cat struggles to get themdown.Treats. Cats love raw, dried fowl and fish treats (cubes orwhole small fish) and sea vegetable leaves. If your cat has apersistent flea problem, there are yeast-based B-vitamin tabletsfor that—cats love the flavor and enjoy them as treats.Catnip, fresh or dried, is an occasional must.Water. Distilled, reverse osmosis, filtered, spring and rain waterare suitable. Keep clean water in a glass, stainless steel orceramic (not aluminum) bowl at all times.D What Not To Feed• Cooked and preserved foods of any kind are toxic, becausethey corrupt animal’s senses and they destroy health. Avoidcooked and dried kibble. Raw dried kibble is generally OK inmoderation; however, it should not be offered regularly.• Do not feed your cat a diet with more than 25% raw cow/steer beef, lamb or other hoofed mammal. Again, in nature,cats would not likely catch and eat them, but the biochemicalprofiles of these foods are not very different from thenatural primary food sources of cats. The key here is offeringthese meats in moderation.• Raw pork has too high of a risk of containing parasites to besafe in any amount.• Do not feed your cat a diet with more than 25% fish. In nature,cats would not likely catch and eat fish. The biochemicalprofile of fish is different, yet not necessarily harmful inmoderation, than cats’ natural primary animal food sources(rodents and birds).• Avoid factory-farm raised, anti-biotic inoculated, GMO andprocessed food.• Avoid dairy (cheese and cooked and raw milk).• Avoid cooked eggs. Raw eggs are OK, but not on an everydaybasis.• Starchy and sugary (carbohydrate) foods are not part of acat’s natural diet (except for the small amounts of predigestedgrains they might obtain from the bowel contents of birdsand rodents). If your cat does enjoy and is able to digest andkeep balanced and healthy with occasional portions of rawsquash, carrot pulp, corn and sweet fruit, I would like to hearabout it! Grains (other than corn and sprouted grains, whichare not really necessary) should be avoided.• Bitter and sharp herbs, including garlic and onions, are toxicand can result in undesirable behavioral changes.• Chlorinated and fluoridated tap water, as well as fetid waterof any kind, must be avoided.14