A movie, Pet FOOleD, 1 hour 10 minutes, was out this past January (2017). It is not a hype-based movie, it just takes a look, through the eyes of two holistic veterinarians, at the problems with regulation in the pet food industry. The bottom line is that pet food is being manufactured and...
...except our indoor cats are not experienced hunters, and feeding live mice is just cruel, for the most part. Mice raised as feeder mice are killed humanely.
...and I'm sure this didn't escape your notice: "Richard Conniff is an author who writes about wildlife for Smithsonian, National Geographic and other magazines." Yes - the cats kill billions of animals a year meta-analysis published a year ago was by... the Smithsonian.
There's a thread discussing this in the forums. http://www.thecatsite.com/t/268498/homemade-kitty-treats-thoughts-opinions
I actually give my cats freeze dried meat treats: chicken breast, chicken or beef liver, and sometimes cod or salmon. I also give them a tinned sardine (canned in water...
Thanks for that, Beth. Yes, reading labels is very important if you're going to feed commercial anything! Dr. Pierson has done a lot of the work for us when it comes to canned foods. She contacted all the pet food companies to get the average nutritional content (versus the "guaranteed analysis"...
Well, warming up the food is just a tip. *Some* cats don't like cold food. When I first started feeding raw, my cats did not like the food right out of the fridge. Now they don't mind. When feeding canned food, a number of people find their cats are fussy about eating leftovers. One way to...