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Missing Link Supplement for Cats?

Has anyone tried the Missing Link Supplement for their cat? I was considering it for my sphynx kitten to keep his skin healthy from the inside out.

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  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago
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    No, and I don't recommend it. I just looked at their ingredients:

    Ingredients: Flax seed, Sunflower seed, Blackstrap Molasses, Rice Bran, Freeze Dried Liver, Primary Dried Yeast, Dried Alfalfa, Freeze Dried Bone, Dried Carrot, Fish Meal, Freeze Dried Oyster, Dried Kelp, Lecithin, Spirulina, Sprouted Green Barley, Yucca, Garlic, Nettle and Taurine.

    Yucca is added only to control poo odor. Kelp is high in iodine and should be avoided if your cat is hyper-t. Garlic isn't desirable. I'm not sure about all the others but I think the few undesirable ingredients are enough to keep you from using this.

    Although most commercial foods are complete and balanced, there are some who believe that extra supplementation should be done. However, it sounds like you just want to add a little extra boost for your kitty but are mainly thinking about skin/coat condition.

    If that's the case, just get some fish oil to add to his diet. If you feed wet food, add a squirt to one or both meals every day. I guess you could put it on dry food too, but if you do make sure all the food is eaten. Once you get dry food wet it deteriorates quickly and turns into a bowl o' germs.

    This is the one I'm currently using, and I love it because it doesn't smell fishy. Only Natural Pet Icelandic Salmon Oil (pump) (http://www.onlynaturalpet.com/products/Only-Natura...

    Good for hairballs, good for skin and coat.

    Selection: You typically won't use human fish oils - at least not the ones in liquid form - because they have added citrus flavors to many of them. You don't want to use cod liver oil - at least not on a very regular basis - because it has too much vitamin a. Plain old fish oil or salmon oil is best. I prefer it in liquid form as opposed to capsules for ease of dispensing. You want it to say that they've done everything possible to remove mercury. I prefer one with the fewest additives, especially not rosemary. Or propyllgallate.

    For ease of use, I prefer to buy it in liquid form in a squeeze bottle or pump.

    Dosage: I give a squirt every day. It's not measured but probably comes to somewhere around 1/4 tsp.

  • rrm38
    Lv 7
    1 decade ago

    It's been my experience that when cats are fed a species appropriate diet there shouldn't be any need for supplements. A species appropriate diet is a wet food that is high protein, grain free and low carb like Innova EVO or Wellness. I don't recommend adding any supplement to your cat's diet unless a vet has deemed the cat to be deficient in some vitamin/mineral necessitating the use of supplements. It is possible to offer too much of a good thing and achieve a negative result. I'm a firm believer that proper nutrition should be achieved through diet alone where possible. The link below is to a very well written site about cat nutrition that explains in detail why an appropriate diet is key to a cat's good health.

    http://catinfo.org/

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