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Please make a post about this concern in the Raw and Home-Cooked Cat Food Forums.Okay, I understand where you're coming from. But is it okay to not give cats their omegas for that long? I've always heard it stressed so much when feeding raw (for example) that you must supplement with fish oil. We can definitely wait, and you're right about healing his gut, but idk what I would use in the meantime. His dandruff is also starting to get really bad.
You can at least give it another two weeks. Most cats can eat an unbalanced diet for up to a month (or longer) before it becomes potentially problematic.
When you do start introducing fish oil again, you can use the human grade fish oil capsules. They can be higher quality and maintain their freshness for longer. At least to start, you would poke a hole in the capsule with a knife and squeeze a small amount of oil out into his food for one or two meals a day. If he likes it (and it likes him aka no reactions), you toss the whole pills into your food processor or grinder when making a food batch, and he gets a tiny amount of gelatin bonus from the capsule itself.