I would love to ask for your opinions on the way I feed my kitties and does anyone feed combination of RAW and commercial permanently?
I must say first that we can not buy ANYTHING on a internet (our credit cards are always rejected - sanctioned country), we are not supported by PayPal and such.
I wrote in detail how I fed my babies when they were kittens and what I feed them now in here: http://felinemagic.blogspot.com/2011/07/for-all-who-love-and-care-about-cats.html But warning - there is a lot to read in that link.
In short - they were raised on raw meats (sold for human consumption).
We don't have prepared balanced raw foods for animals to buy.
About three years ago we hardly had ANY commercial food (was very hard to get) here, hence my choice of feeding them raw, which I'm glad I did.
Meats I use are: beef (best quality products) as fresh as we can get, chicken and occasionally ostrich or turkey.
Of that mainly I feed muscle meat.
I read a lot of balancing a diet with more variety of meats and some bones, organs, etc. I tried.
Problem with that - it is seldom we buy meat of lower price value like organs and boned meat, because for some reason it is NOT really fresh. That's what they sell to humans here. I'd thought butcheries would be better, but just the same - sometimes we can get fresh kill, but most of the time - meat is old and a bit off. (You'd run away from butcheries here if you sensed a smell inside there).
So I felt that the meat they eat is lacking balance. So our vets suggested that I feed then commercial food as well (wet and dry) to supplement for possible shortage.
For home-made food there are no supplements available.
Say - calcium (are calcium pills for humans okay? Perhaps not, because they are not pure calcium, but with additions).
Taurine is not available as a supplement.
I used to grind dried egg shells, but then I read somewhere - this is not good for cats.
Seldom I manage to get some chicken hearts from fresh kill.
Hearts of cattle and other organs are readily available in shops - but like I said - meat is not fresh and often a bit off. My cats won't touch it.
There is also so much contradictions about RAW feeding in many paces on web.
For example: Fish - some say you can feed limited amounts, and some say - don't even let them smell fish.
Some also say that Pork is bad for cats.
I ended up mainly feeding beef and chicken and commercial food too.
I'm happy with my cats' health and their stool is good, but one can not know for sure what is to come...
Any advice?
Thank you very much for your time.
I must say first that we can not buy ANYTHING on a internet (our credit cards are always rejected - sanctioned country), we are not supported by PayPal and such.
I wrote in detail how I fed my babies when they were kittens and what I feed them now in here: http://felinemagic.blogspot.com/2011/07/for-all-who-love-and-care-about-cats.html But warning - there is a lot to read in that link.
In short - they were raised on raw meats (sold for human consumption).
We don't have prepared balanced raw foods for animals to buy.
About three years ago we hardly had ANY commercial food (was very hard to get) here, hence my choice of feeding them raw, which I'm glad I did.
Meats I use are: beef (best quality products) as fresh as we can get, chicken and occasionally ostrich or turkey.
Of that mainly I feed muscle meat.
I read a lot of balancing a diet with more variety of meats and some bones, organs, etc. I tried.
Problem with that - it is seldom we buy meat of lower price value like organs and boned meat, because for some reason it is NOT really fresh. That's what they sell to humans here. I'd thought butcheries would be better, but just the same - sometimes we can get fresh kill, but most of the time - meat is old and a bit off. (You'd run away from butcheries here if you sensed a smell inside there).
So I felt that the meat they eat is lacking balance. So our vets suggested that I feed then commercial food as well (wet and dry) to supplement for possible shortage.
For home-made food there are no supplements available.
Say - calcium (are calcium pills for humans okay? Perhaps not, because they are not pure calcium, but with additions).
Taurine is not available as a supplement.
I used to grind dried egg shells, but then I read somewhere - this is not good for cats.
Seldom I manage to get some chicken hearts from fresh kill.
Hearts of cattle and other organs are readily available in shops - but like I said - meat is not fresh and often a bit off. My cats won't touch it.
There is also so much contradictions about RAW feeding in many paces on web.
For example: Fish - some say you can feed limited amounts, and some say - don't even let them smell fish.
Some also say that Pork is bad for cats.
I ended up mainly feeding beef and chicken and commercial food too.
I'm happy with my cats' health and their stool is good, but one can not know for sure what is to come...
Any advice?
Thank you very much for your time.
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