Most of us were commercial food junkies at one point or another. It's the most common, convenient form of feeding.
Most of us at one point decided to invest in "higher quality" foods, moving up in the world with higher end kibble or canned.
But what was the moment you decided to scrap all that and "go raw"? What was your "ah-hah" moment?
Mine was while I was standing over the stove, cooking chicken and rice for our sweet 31/2 year old Pippen who was suffering from severe liver damage. I sat there cooking it, despairing because he wasn't eating much and I knew he was not getting the nutrients his body needed to get healthy again. Then I thought to myself, "Wait a minute... we know that cooking leaches nutrients from our food... am I cooking out the nutrients from his meat?". Then I thought.... "I know that some (crazy) people feed raw meats to their dogs... what about cats?"
And that was the moment that launched a full 2 month research frenzy into feeding raw to cats. Mind you, back then there was not a lot of cat specific info out there; plenty for dogs, but my gut told me cats were different. It took a lot of weeding and cross-checking, but I finally came across CatInfo.org, thank goodness. Eventually, more vets and nutritionists started putting the information out there, and I continue to learn from them and from the people here.
Most of us at one point decided to invest in "higher quality" foods, moving up in the world with higher end kibble or canned.
But what was the moment you decided to scrap all that and "go raw"? What was your "ah-hah" moment?
Mine was while I was standing over the stove, cooking chicken and rice for our sweet 31/2 year old Pippen who was suffering from severe liver damage. I sat there cooking it, despairing because he wasn't eating much and I knew he was not getting the nutrients his body needed to get healthy again. Then I thought to myself, "Wait a minute... we know that cooking leaches nutrients from our food... am I cooking out the nutrients from his meat?". Then I thought.... "I know that some (crazy) people feed raw meats to their dogs... what about cats?"
And that was the moment that launched a full 2 month research frenzy into feeding raw to cats. Mind you, back then there was not a lot of cat specific info out there; plenty for dogs, but my gut told me cats were different. It took a lot of weeding and cross-checking, but I finally came across CatInfo.org, thank goodness. Eventually, more vets and nutritionists started putting the information out there, and I continue to learn from them and from the people here.