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I have a 8-week-old kitten who loves the raw food I make her. I use ground-in bone mixes from Hare-Today with additional boneless ground + organs to get to a 80/10/10 ratio. The issue is that the kitten ends up leaving around half of the finely ground bone pieces (<2 mm) behind. I've watched her eat, and it's not that she eats around them. Instead, she'll pick them up, try to chew furiously, and drop it. Then she'll pick the same piece back up, try chewing it, and drop it again. This continues 5-6 times until she loses the piece somewhere on the floor.
As a growing kitten, she definitely needs the calcium. Is there anything I can do to help her eat the bone pieces? My 2-year-old cat eats the pieces fine - usually swallows them with the chunks of meat and doesn't even notice. Is this something that she'll grow out of? In the meantime, what can I do to make sure she gets enough calcium?
As a growing kitten, she definitely needs the calcium. Is there anything I can do to help her eat the bone pieces? My 2-year-old cat eats the pieces fine - usually swallows them with the chunks of meat and doesn't even notice. Is this something that she'll grow out of? In the meantime, what can I do to make sure she gets enough calcium?