Tips About Cats – Chemical and Environmental Toxins

By Claude West

Toxins are everywhere, and if you have ever spoken to a homeopathic practitioner, you know how much damage these invisible chemicals can do to you. What you may not have realized, however, is that these same toxins can affect your pet. In fact, toxins affect your pet in a much more profound way than they affect you. This article will tell you all about the different toxins that could be affecting your pet, where they come from, and some of the steps you can take to make sure that your pet lives a long, healthy, happy life.

Where Do Toxins Come From? – Your Toxic Enemies

Toxins are everywhere in our modern environment, and it is technically impossible to avoid all of them. However, there are certain places that they are more common than others are. When it comes to pet care, one of the biggest perpetrators of the toxic burden that pets experience comes from the commercial pet food industry. Eating toxins is the easiest way to get toxins in your system, and sadly, most pet food has them.

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Some of the ingredients, such as corn fillers, are relatively innocuous. Others, such as bone meal, are definitely toxic and avoid at all costs. Bone meal made from the parts of animals not for human consumption. By-products are not much better. Sometimes, the animals included euthanized animals – including horses, chickens, cows, dogs, and cats. With some cases, there have even been reports of the animals’ flea collars ending up in bone meal. Along with bone meal, and by-products, chemical preservatives are carcinogenic to pets. Continue reading →