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I have recently been looking into a raw food diets, now that I am no longer a poor collage and can afford a higher quality food for my fur baby.
I currently feed her Blue Buffalo Indoor Health Chicken+Rice, and with my research so far have found that it would only cost me between 20-80 cents more per day to give her a Raw Diet.
However, my cat is now 6 years old (9lbs, healthy, no allergies) and I know how picky she can be about food. I have had luck changing brands of food, but if I get anything other than chicken of turkey flavor she will not eat it. She loves wet food as well, I feed her Nutro Perfect Portions Pate, but if I give her the cuts+gravy type she will vomit after she eats... I do not know why, even other brands she can eat the Pate version of a food, but the gravy variety makes her sick.
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Long story short... I want to give her the best diet possible, I feel that I can manage a raw diet for her well, but I do not know how to transition her to a totally new diet. Or if it is even healthy to do so at this point in her life.
Has anyone transitioned an adult cat from kibble to raw? How did you do it? Do you use a pre-made diet like Darwin's, or do you buy raw ingredients and make your own?
I currently feed her Blue Buffalo Indoor Health Chicken+Rice, and with my research so far have found that it would only cost me between 20-80 cents more per day to give her a Raw Diet.
However, my cat is now 6 years old (9lbs, healthy, no allergies) and I know how picky she can be about food. I have had luck changing brands of food, but if I get anything other than chicken of turkey flavor she will not eat it. She loves wet food as well, I feed her Nutro Perfect Portions Pate, but if I give her the cuts+gravy type she will vomit after she eats... I do not know why, even other brands she can eat the Pate version of a food, but the gravy variety makes her sick.
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Long story short... I want to give her the best diet possible, I feel that I can manage a raw diet for her well, but I do not know how to transition her to a totally new diet. Or if it is even healthy to do so at this point in her life.
Has anyone transitioned an adult cat from kibble to raw? How did you do it? Do you use a pre-made diet like Darwin's, or do you buy raw ingredients and make your own?