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I brought up a discussion of this brand of freeze dried raw cat food in a thread that was started to discuss another product so I thought I would try to stay on the good side of the mods by starting a new thread about my experience with it rather than continue to take the other thread off topic...

Is there a one click way to unwatch all threads I am currently watching? I'm watching a bunch and it is tedious to individually unwatch each one.

Several people have posted that they are looking for a low phosphorus pre-mix to use in making home-made food for their kitties with kidney disease. I want to point out that the vast majority of pre-mixes on the market are low phosphorous. The primary sources of phosphorous in our home-made...

Not sure how to communicate this but this seems as good a way as any: One of the articles on how to handle ringworm contains a link that appears to be intended to be to vacuum reviews but is actually to an article on weaning kittens. The link is in the last sentence under "The Vacuum Cleaner" ...

I know some people use left over eggshells for their home-made raw food but what I'm interested in is what people who buy eggshell powder pay. I'm working on a cost comparison between a home-made pre-mix and commercial pre-mixes. The prices I've found online for eggshell powder seem to vary by...

I've frequently posted that when a cat that has previously been diagnosed with struvite crystals that it was extremely risky to feed anything other than a prescription diet or a raw diet in order to prevent recurrence of the crystals. Lately though I've been seeing quite a few posts by people...

Hi everyone!  I've thrown together a web site to be a central location to find calculators for the needs of people making home-made pet foods. Currently there is only one calculator, for figuring out how much meat and organs to add to bone-in meat to get the bone content down to what is...

There seems to be a misunderstanding about how and when it is OK to knowingly feed nutritionally unbalanced raw food (or cooked food for that matter) to a cat. In general it is only acceptable within the following guidelines:  - It is for a short time only (weeks, not months). - The unbalanced...

I just finished making 4 batches of raw ground for my crew of 4. Since people frequently ask how much feeding raw costs and how much time it takes I thought I'd post my results for this go round. I didn't include the cost of supplements except for the eggs because their cost is pretty minimal. I...

I have a foster with a URI and he is eating very little. He is very active and playful so I know he feels fine. His URI is mild but he does still have some congestion. I'm guessing that he isn't real food motivated to begin with and now maybe can't smell the food very well because of the...

This is a thread dedicated to raw cat food recipes. Everyone is encouraged to share their favorite recipes! Click here for a directory of printable recipes

I noticed recently that as per information on the Wysong web site Call of the Wild, used as a pre-mix supplement by some raw feeders, appears to have a very high level of iodine. I contacted a Wysong representative to verify the information on the web site and was told me that it is...

The USDA publishes a document that has nutrient retention values for various cooking methods and various types of foods. I thought I would pull out the entries for meat ingredients that would be of most interest to people making their own cooked home-made foods. First, a  link to the full...

I'd like this thread to be a place where folks can come to find tried and proven cooked home-made recipes. I'm going to start it off by adding a post for the food I just made. I'll be including a nutritional analysis of my food but that is by no means a requirement. Everybody share your recipes!

Anyone feeding whole, bone in, meat as part of their raw diet and is attempting to follow the 80-10-5-5 guidelines has a need to know how much bone is in what they feed. Fortunately the USDA Nutrient database tells us, on average, how much bone there is in some of the more common things we...

In case anyone hasn't noticed this is now the "Raw and Home-Cooked Cat Food" forum. 

First, this wasn't actually the first time I've made a cooked cat food. I know it tried it some time ago but for some reason I can't remember much about it. So technically this is my second experience making cooked cat food. I normally feed a ground raw diet to my cats but I wanted to try out a...

Sweetbreads are pretty readily available to me and I'd like to add them to my furries raw diet but I'd like to know exactly what it is that I'd be adding. Every online definition for sweetbreads says that it can be either thymus or pancreas with conflicting information on which it is more likely...

Mickey started at almost 27 lbs. He is down to 24 lbs 3 oz and obviously still has a long ways to go!  Mickey and Coco: Mickey and a more normal sized kitty, Jeta: Mickey playing. He still prefers to play while rooted in one spot!

I've been taking krill oil for some rather extreme pain caused by surgery aggravated arthritis. Well I made a disconcerting discovery. You might have read that krill (and fish) oil is heat sensitive. I think I can personally verify that it is indeed.  The krill oil I started with is some I...