Dr. Cliff Redford
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It's a, what is it called?
Something like that.
I am not a scientist.
I'm just a kind of doctor.
But anyway, so the cats that are not getting enough taurine, and it's usually due to them being fed either a vegan diet or just a homemade diet and it's not balanced, they can get retinal degeneration.
So blindness, you know, their pupils will enlarge, they'll stumble around.
They walk with a cane.
They can get heart issues, specifically a very devastating condition called dilated cardiomyopathy, where the heart muscle becomes dilated and sort of weak and flaccid.
There's a sound bite for you.
Neurological, reproductive health issues, digestive issues.
I guess the moral of the story is cats are not vegans and the studies that these scientists have been using for decades to determine what species certain species eat is wrong.
I would basically say make sure it is a veterinary approved, commercially prepared diet because it will need supplementation.