Published in January, 1995, in my newsletter called Animal Tales
, I thought I would show that if one lady could feed 176 cats, then it only makes sense that the average person can feed a few pets.
Karen Brewster is making an incredible difference in the lives of many cats.
Karen is the founder of a cat shelter called Volunteer Animal Rescue
.
Karen lives with her 176 cats that she has rescued. Her house is cat burglar
proof (literally). Her back yard is completely penned in so the cats can't run
away. Inside the house, well that is a whole story in itself. Basically, Karen
might as well be living at sea. With 176 cats, everything is prone to be knocked
over by jumping cats that are curious to know what lies on top of that shelf
over there, and that shelf over here, and well, every shelf.
Anyway, back in November of 1994, Karen attended a workshop of mine. Her
intent was to improve yet again the lives of all her cats by feeding them fresh
food. Immediately after the workshop, Karen was at work feeding the cats a
natural diet.
Many improvements have been made since incorporating fresh food, supplements,
etc. Karen has given her rescued cats, many of whom were sick when rescued, a
fighting chance to stay alive and be healthy.
Karen is reliving the experiment done by Dr. Francis Pottenger back in the
1930's. Dr. Pottenger showed the world the amazing benefits of fresh, raw food
by feeding half of his cats raw meat and the other half cooked meat. The half
that were fed raw meat were purrfectly healthy while those fed cooked meat had
many problems, especially in second and third generation cats.
Many of Karen's cats are doing much better now with a good diet. Karen's
mission is to make these cats exceptionally healthy and give them a good place
to live. Karen is living proof that if 1 person can feed a homemade diet to 176
cats, that feeding a homemade diet is really simple. If Karen feeds all of her
176 cats a homemade diet, then feeding 1 or 2 pets should be pawsitively easy.