Recent Content by tobykitten

The ratio is 2:1. I'm out -- this place is totally unwelcoming and generally mistrustful of newbies.  If someone suggests something that doesn't align with popular opinion of the resident "experts", they are met with pretentious responses.  I have been treated again and again this way in my...

I get how it works. Meat = phosphorus resource, eggshell = calcium resource, and parts is simply a description of the ratio (2:1). If you want an amount, from the site:

http://www.pet-grub.com/holistic_pet_health_questions_and_answers/three_questions_about_calcium_for_pets http://www.organic-pet-digest.com/calcium-supplementation-for-raw-dog-food-diet.html Vet recommends 2:1 ratio for both dogs & cats.

/end thread. My interests in feeding my cat are aligned with providing a biologically appropriate diet.  My cat, while it retains certain biological characteristics of a wild cat, behaviorally, is not a wild animal.  Therefore I do not find it necesscary to feed live prey, which it would no...

The egg is essentially a perfect food so I would imagine that as a whole it is balanced. I have only ever fed raw egg yolks because the whites contain the avadin.  If you supplement B in larger quantities I wouldn't worry about it, but I don't see the point really of feeding whites when the...

The general ratio for calcium to phosphorus is 2:1 - so for every 1 part meat add 2 parts eggshell (or other calcium resource).

I use a towel for my dog (She even knows "Keep it on your mat") but for Toby, because his food (ground H-T mixes) is so wet (and it's important to me it stay wet) I use these rubbermaid square plates.  I like them because they're really shallow so food can be spread around, but have a lip on...

This is Toby - he's 12 weeks - looks like he has lots of whiskers (he is also polydactyl on all 4 paws) -- but not sure if kittens usually have more whiskers than adults?? They are very long...  He also has very long eye-brow whiskers!

What's "acceptable" and "friendly" is always going to be different depending on the individual.   What matters is how you felt. To me, it would seem unusual for this to occur -- even when I had to put former pets down, no-one ever touched me. It's risky business, in general, in America, for...

This doesn't sound like a life-threatening defect but a vet visit will be good to rule out any possible complications arising from the bent paw. I had a cat that was born with a Level 4 heart murmur (Murmurs are graded on a scale from 1-6; I was told 6 is "pretty much dead") and was later...

This is a question to ask a vet, who no doubt have been pricked by needles before. You may want to consider seeing your doctor, too.