cooked raw or raw raw?

[joeynox]

Hi my girl has been having many issues lately  which i posted about in the health section  and shes becoming quite fussy.  i have a question about raw food besides commercial raw.   do you  cook   beef  and other meats or leave them raw?

 

[ldg]

Raw feeders feed them raw. If you use commercial raw, they can't be cooked, as most contain bone, and it is dangerous to feed cooked bone. Raw bone is flexible and pliable: cooked bone is brittle and splinters.

If you're using a mobile phone for reading, you may not have seen the resources threads sticked at the top of the forum:

Raw Feeding Resources: http://www.thecatsite.com/t/264154/raw-feeding-resources

Home-cooking Resources: http://www.thecatsite.com/t/264153/home-cooked-cat-food-resources

 

[peaches08]

I do not cook any of my cats' raw, it is left raw.  However, when I first started raw feeding I lightly baked the chicken thighs at 550 F for only a few minutes to kill any surface bacteria then chilled the chicken in ice water immediately to stop the cooking process.  Over time, I realized that this was not necessary and my cats actual preferred the plain raw over the seared raw.  So now I just use plain raw straight out of the package or rinsed off.

Is this what you're asking about?

 

[Willowy]

If it's cooked it's not raw . Do you mean home-prepared? LDG gave the links to the resource threads, those are very informative.

I only feed my cats a little fresh food, but most get it raw. One cat doesn't eat raw so I cook food for her.