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Follow-up, in case it’s helpful to anyone: The Tidy Cats Breeze XL litterbox worked fantastic! It took a few days and removal of the litterbox with clumping litter, the hard pellets are a new thing. He pooped in the Breeze a couple times, still peeing in litterbox with the clumping litter. He...

Hi. My cat Zeke is a big boy, and when he uses the litterbox, it’s like he’s sitting on the litter, and he pees a lot at once, and then he jumps out, dribbling and tracking pee everywhere and it sucks. I have to wipe him down and wash him, with grooming foam, or he stinks. If I could convince...

While you can do it by carefully selecting the right ratios of organs, bone, meat, it’s a lot easier to use a supplement and follow the recipes appropriate to each. I’ve used Alnutrin for several years.

Her litterbox behavior sounds pretty normal to me, I’ve got cats with similar litterbox habits. I have one who prefers one litterbox to pee in, and another litterbox to poop in. The litterboxes are next to each other. You could add a litterbox and see what she does. If you give her a treat...

Hi! Sounds like he’s fine. My cat on raw doesn’t poop every day, more like every two or three days. I wouldn’t worry unless you see him straining without pooping or scooting. Half a raw chicken neck once a week for dental health should be fine. It’s amazing how they crunch down those bones!

As a vegan myself, I understand your reluctance, but cats are obligate carnivores. I would never deny my cats meat or try to make them vegetarian. We humans don’t require animal products, but cats do. Please give these kitties some commercial cat food. Thanks! :purr:

Hi I give Zeke, the white/black cat, whole adult mice, chunks of rabbit, and sometimes a whole guinea pig. He just gobbles them down, occasionally taking a bigger bone to a nearby mat to gnaw on. Starting with pinkies is a good idea. I think Hare Today sells ground whole mouse, or at least...

Starting with very small mice or baby rats or mice if you can get one, or a few, could be a good first whole prey feeding try. I get my cat whole adult mice from Hare Today, and they offer “pinkies”, tiny furless baby mice, practically bite-suzed for a kitty.

Hi TCFeline has a premix supplement for kitties that need a low phosphorus diet due to kidney disease. I haven’t personally needed it for any of my cats, but you might check it out. :goodluck:

That sucks! Frankly, vets, like human doctors, don’t get any real nutrition education, so they readily advocate diets, the most common diets, that are not the healthiest. I also am disappointed that veterinarians encourage dry food for cats. I can understand that they might be reluctant to...

Hi I think you want to keep the organs @10%, and mix the boneless meat with the supplement for meat with bones, not the one for boneless meat, since that one has added calcium, which you don’t want to increase. Also watch out for some treats or supplements, like for hairball control, that might...

I don’t know if these results are due to diet or could be from another cause. It seems your vet thinks it’s the diet. It’s unfortunate that the vet’s wanting you to feed your cat kibble. If it were me, I’d try switching my cat to a canned food for a while, retest and see what results come...

That’s sooo frustrating! Maybe top it or mix it with some crushed treats or other food they like to get them to eat it....

I got my guy Zeke to lose about 5 pounds by switching him to a raw diet and keeping a journal of how much I was feeding him and tracking his weight. I buy from Hare Today, they’re great. I feed the raw ground rabbit with bones and organs, diluted with ground boneless chicken to reduce the bone...

I use Alnutrin, both versions, one for meat with bone, and one with eggshell calcium for boneless meat. I get them directly from the manufacturer, which is the lowest price.