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Hello! So a bit of background. I found this site doing research after recently losing my beautiful girl at age 13 to kidney failure. The one who refused to eat anything but kibble (super premium natch) her entire life and I thought that was fine and dandy. Her older sister ate only kibble and died at 15, also from kidney failure. Another beloved cat who lived to be 22 ate a mix of moist and wet. Anecdotal yes. But I’m convinced.
So now we have Marley, a 5 year old tortie who’s always liked wet food and had been eating 50/50 cans and kibble, and our little Luna, a gray tabby who’s 12 weeks old. Almost as soon as we brought her home, we weaned them both off kibble and donated two huge bags of it to the shelter where we adopted Luna. We’re currently trying different brands and flavors of All Stages (and some kitten) to see what we like. Luna of course devours almost anything. Marley is a little more picky but doing very well. In the few weeks alone she’s been on wet exclusively she’s lost a little weight, her coat is even shinier and SO soft, and she’s stopped shedding hair when you pet her. It’s incredible! She’s more playful too but that could be life with a kitten!
But this is the raw forum so: I’m not ready to go full on raw but I have been experimenting. I’ve bought some commercial frozen, Stella & Chewy and Lotus. Luna is all “wooooohooooo!” but Marley doesn’t like it. What Marley does like however are whole pieces of raw chicken, duck, lamb, I get from the organic butcher. As a treat of course in addition to her food.
And finally to my question. I’m prepared to try buying some ground meat from our butcher and adding a good supplement and seeing how they like it. I’ve also been looking on Hare Today as they come highly recommended and see they have WHOLE ground rabbits and other meats available for raw feeding.
My question (finally & thanks for reading this far) is this: these whole ground meats that are described as including “Raw ground whole carcass rabbit. This is the whole rabbit including FUR, with the stomach and intestine removed.” or “Raw ground whole carcass quail. This is the entire bird including feathers.” are perfect prey and therefore require no supplements correct? Especially when fed not as an exclusive diet but in rotation with fresh and canned complete meals? Thank you!!
So now we have Marley, a 5 year old tortie who’s always liked wet food and had been eating 50/50 cans and kibble, and our little Luna, a gray tabby who’s 12 weeks old. Almost as soon as we brought her home, we weaned them both off kibble and donated two huge bags of it to the shelter where we adopted Luna. We’re currently trying different brands and flavors of All Stages (and some kitten) to see what we like. Luna of course devours almost anything. Marley is a little more picky but doing very well. In the few weeks alone she’s been on wet exclusively she’s lost a little weight, her coat is even shinier and SO soft, and she’s stopped shedding hair when you pet her. It’s incredible! She’s more playful too but that could be life with a kitten!
But this is the raw forum so: I’m not ready to go full on raw but I have been experimenting. I’ve bought some commercial frozen, Stella & Chewy and Lotus. Luna is all “wooooohooooo!” but Marley doesn’t like it. What Marley does like however are whole pieces of raw chicken, duck, lamb, I get from the organic butcher. As a treat of course in addition to her food.
And finally to my question. I’m prepared to try buying some ground meat from our butcher and adding a good supplement and seeing how they like it. I’ve also been looking on Hare Today as they come highly recommended and see they have WHOLE ground rabbits and other meats available for raw feeding.
My question (finally & thanks for reading this far) is this: these whole ground meats that are described as including “Raw ground whole carcass rabbit. This is the whole rabbit including FUR, with the stomach and intestine removed.” or “Raw ground whole carcass quail. This is the entire bird including feathers.” are perfect prey and therefore require no supplements correct? Especially when fed not as an exclusive diet but in rotation with fresh and canned complete meals? Thank you!!