Hello everybody. I have just registered on TCS and, wow, what a fabulous site this is - the wealth of knowledge is just incredible and the members are so helpful! I'm so glad I have found this site as raw feeding is not very well known in France.
About 9 months ago, I started feeding my 4 cats raw ground food (Dr Pierson's recipe, but with more variety - chicken, rabbit, lamb, duck and beef - home ground as sadly there is nothing like Hare Today here
Since they are indoor-outdoor cats, they are great hunters anyway, 3 took to raw at once. They love it and seem to be doing great.
Thanks to the information I have found on this site, I am also now adding probiotics, CoQ10, and colostrum / lactoferrin.
Finally, here is my question: since all my kitties are on their way to seniorhood (9, 10 and 11), I was thinking it might be advisable to drop the phosphorus level in their meals? Touch wood, as far as I am aware, none have any kidney problems, but as a preventive measure, do you think it is advisable or do I simply worry too much?
I was thinking of occasionally using ground eggshell to replace the bones - but one of my kitties (Flip-Flop) seems to have an egg intolerance (she threw up on the few occasions I mixed an egg with their meal). Do you think this intolerance would also apply to ground eggshell or is that a different protein/component?
I know the only way to find out for sure is to try, but just in case one of you has encountered this problem before, I thought I would ask.
Thank you in advance for any suggestion
About 9 months ago, I started feeding my 4 cats raw ground food (Dr Pierson's recipe, but with more variety - chicken, rabbit, lamb, duck and beef - home ground as sadly there is nothing like Hare Today here
Since they are indoor-outdoor cats, they are great hunters anyway, 3 took to raw at once. They love it and seem to be doing great.
Thanks to the information I have found on this site, I am also now adding probiotics, CoQ10, and colostrum / lactoferrin.
Finally, here is my question: since all my kitties are on their way to seniorhood (9, 10 and 11), I was thinking it might be advisable to drop the phosphorus level in their meals? Touch wood, as far as I am aware, none have any kidney problems, but as a preventive measure, do you think it is advisable or do I simply worry too much?
I was thinking of occasionally using ground eggshell to replace the bones - but one of my kitties (Flip-Flop) seems to have an egg intolerance (she threw up on the few occasions I mixed an egg with their meal). Do you think this intolerance would also apply to ground eggshell or is that a different protein/component?
I know the only way to find out for sure is to try, but just in case one of you has encountered this problem before, I thought I would ask.
Thank you in advance for any suggestion
