Interesting. I'd love to hear what the differences are between raw-fed cats and non-raw fed cats.
http://healthypets.mercola.com/sites/healthypets/archive/2015/09/24/kittybiome-project.aspxAnd reading this makes me wonder . . . there's an emerging treatment for humans with c. diff., a bacteria that can be picked up in hospitals and it can be difficult to wipe it out. The emerging treatment, gross as it sounds, is to put the stool of a healthy person (who doesn't have c. diff.) into a capsule and the patient swallows it, in order to re-populate the gut with good bacteria/flora. So as my weird mind read this article, I wondered . . . if you can make a pill for a cat that contains the stool of, say, a tiger from a zoo, would it help cats with IBD? That's assuming, of course, that the bacteria for both the tiger and smaller cats are very similar.
It would also be interesting to compare the stool of bigger cats (e.g. lions, tigers, bobcats, etc.) with the stool of raw-fed domestic cats, to see how similar they are (not).