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I have two 15-month old cats, a boy and a girl (litter mates). We went to the vet today for their annual visit and boy weighs 10.7 lbs and is slightly underweight for his frame and girl weighs 10.2 and is slightly overweight for their frame. I'm trying to introduce a little dry food into their...

Background: I have noticed a watery eye on one of my almost-year-old kittens for several days now. It's not constant, but it's the same eye each time, and the discharge is clear (like tears), not brown, yellow, or mucousy. Last night, I saw her sneeze and a longish, thin stream of mucous came...

That makes sense—thank you for the answers! I don't have a meat grinder so I think I'll just go with a small dice.

Is chunked meat safer than ground meet? I thought the freshness of the meat was the issue, but is it that grinding exposes it to more germs? If doing chunked meat, how small should the chunks be for kitties that are just used to ground?

I am to the end of raw meat that I ordered from Hare Today and I realized I am a little short on boneless meat to dilute a chicken mixture with. I will need to go ahead and mix the new mixture up before I can get a new order in from Hare Today. I figured I could try getting some ground boneless...

This has been a very interesting discussion--thanks @LisaMarie12  and @missmimz  and @siamnaco  for your input. I got onto a raw diet because my kittens had diarrhea for three months solid and the vet was at a loss and suggested it was "leaky gut" but offered no treatment solution. That led me...

Question: I read somewhere in the comments on the Raw Feeding for IBD cats that EZ Complete is preferable to bones because bones have more phosphorus than eggshell. Dr. Pierson has a really clear preference for bones over eggshell, though. Is the phosphorus more of an issue with IBD, or is this...

@mpea, the Primal site has a feeding calculator you can use (scroll down...it's lower on the page). I don't use Primal Food but I appreciated finding out how much I should feed. I have two 8.5 month old kittens and I think they are beginning to slow down on quantity a bit, although I still feed...

Thanks so much for the reply, @cat nap! There have been some very interesting times around here lately. The elderly cat has taken to wetting on my bed with distressing regularity, which I know is behavioral and is expressing anger. This cat has always been fearful and full of anxiety (I adopted...

I have three cats: two 8.5 month old kittens, boy and girl, that I adopted at 10 weeks and an elderly 18-year-old-girl cat. The 18-year-old has never been crazy about the kittens, although the boy kitten has wanted to befriend her from his early days with us but she just hisses at him. I'm...

Yes, I have become *that* pet owner. My kittens had diarrhea the first three months they were with me, so poop has taken on a new importance in my life. I finally beat the diarrhea with raw and good probiotics, but there have been a couple of flare-ups of ultra soft poop that keep me from...

I've been feeding my kittens Hare Today for several months now and I'm on my second bag of Alnutrin. The first bag came with a scoop and instructions were given by scoop. The second bag I ordered didn't come with a scoop and explained quantity in terms of grams per pound of meet. I bought a...

From Hare Today, I've tried chicken, beef, whole carcass rabbit, turkey, and now mutton. Neither one of them liked turkey or beef, and one or the other has been iffy on all the others. The first time I ordered rabbit one of them didn't like it, but that's what they've been eating again this past...

I have two kittens who are almost 8 months old, and they've been on a mostly raw diet for about 4 months now. As a result of what I think was IBD, they had diarrhea the first three months I had them and I finally knocked that out with a raw diet and good probiotics. They really liked Rad Cat but...

I'm sorry to have not replied earlier--busy week! They are still hating the turkey. Alfie will eventually break down and eat it, but Beatrice will not touch it for the most part. I broke down and bought a bag of freeze-dried raw that I'm feeding Beatrice and I'm still making Alfie eat the...