Improving cats’ physical and mental well-being with diet

Indoor confined cats depend on their owners to determine when, what and how they eat, which impacts their well-being on multiple levels. A 2021 U.S. review took stock of interventions can lead to long-lasting behavioral and emotional changes. Obesity and behavior problems are common in domestic cats, and these conditions, although multifactorial, may be related to the way cats are fed. In fact, wild cats are generalist predators, their natural feeding behavior is highly dependent on available resources, and predation is an inescapable feature of the cat’s physical and mental well-being. In the case of domestic cats, on the contrary,...