Site map to some of the informative posts on feline health and nutrition
Basic nutrition
- Six reasons not to feed dry cat food
- Canned cat food – which one?
- Raw done right
- A Cure for What Ails Your Cat
- Baby food
- It’s a Miracle – NOT!
Other nutrition
- AAFP-AAHA feline life stage guidelines
- The Carnitine Conundrum
- Carnivorous cats
- Cornell’s Cat Food Alert
- Fat cat, skinny cat – what ya gonna do?
- Food Safety
- Foster blues
- The Future of Food
- Gotta Have Faith
- Junk Food
- Making Cat Food – the movie
- Nature’s WORST
- Pet food labels – guaranteed analysis
- Pop goes the pop-top can
- Recommended reading
- Survive versus Thrive
- The Taurine Theory
- Vets and pet food
- Why I Lie
Specific health conditions
- Anal glands – Thar He Blows!
- Arthritis
- Asthma – Puff asthmatic kitty
- Dental Disease – Dental dilemmas
- Diabetes Mellitus –
- FIV (feline immunodeficiency syndrome) – Thar He Blows!
- Gastro-intestinal issues, including Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD)
- Hyperthyroidism
- Kidney disease (chronic renal insufficiency, chronic renal failure) –
- Obesity –
- Pilling/medicating cats
- Spay/neuter –
- Triaditis (IBD, pancreatitis, and cholongiohepatitis) –
- Urinary tract issues (FLUTD)
- Miscellaneous
Life of the Lintee Bean 
I’m new here and I think this is a wonderful page. I found the info I needed on whether one of our cats needed B-12. She doesn’t. She has been wounded and I’m trying to bring her back to health. There’s a bit of history I won’t go into; but I’m trying to improve her appetite. She could still die. She’s running out of energy; but still fighting. Any ideas? She doesn’t like to experiment with new foods too well.
Hi Katie,
I’m sorry to hear your cat is struggling. If she’s not eating, you may need to try all-meat baby food (unsupplemented for a few days is okay – after that it would at least need supplemented with taurine and a mineral supplement). You may need to assist feed or consider a feeding tube. There’s a wealth of information on these subjects on catinfo.org.
Best of luck,
Lynette
Thank you for your quick reply. We had to put Allie out of her misery last night. She fought valiantly; but the root cause may well have been cancer. At any rate, she just couldn’t heal. Now she has a daffodil patch to care for. Keep up your good work. At the least, we cat lovers know that without us, these orphan cats wouldn’t have had a life at all.
Sincerely, Katie Prier
Katie,
I’m so sorry for your loss. I do hope the fact you gave Allie a life filled with love does bring you some comfort.
Lynette