Hi all! After dealing with constipation issues with my cats, I decided to switch them to raw. my cats eat both canned and kibble (I know bad cat mommy). I have a really busy schedule and work 10+ hours a day. One of my cat has a record of eating things he is not supposed (and had surgery because of this) if he is not fed on time. I feed them canned in the morning and night and have an automatic feeder that will dispense small amounts of kibble twice a day, usually around noon and 5 pm in case I can't get home around dinner time, I know they have food available.
A month or so ago, my cats got very nauseous after eating canned fish, the same brand they had always eating. At first I thought it was a bad batch, waited a few days and fed them a different brand. They were nauseous all day so I stopped feeding fish. I had to switch them to
Royal Canin sensity digest (full of by-products and corn), after they got better, I got a higher quality limited ingredient food and they were doing fine for a few days, but started with the nausea again. I was desperate and didn't know what to do, I thought they were allergic to chicken but they eat their chicken kibble just fine. I was reading the label of their new food and I found salmon oil as one of the ingredients. I am 90% sure that this is what was causing the nausea. I bought a bag of frozen raw food today (Stella and chewys duck, duck, goose dinner morsels) to start the transition, I sprinkled some forti-flora on top but they were not interested. One of them ate the food eventually. Once they fully transitioned to raw, I would like to start making my own cat raw food and I was wondering if I can skip the salmon/ fish oil or substitute it with something else. Also, is there any way that I can feed a combination of high quality grain free kibble and raw food? This is because of my work hours.
A month or so ago, my cats got very nauseous after eating canned fish, the same brand they had always eating. At first I thought it was a bad batch, waited a few days and fed them a different brand. They were nauseous all day so I stopped feeding fish. I had to switch them to
Royal Canin sensity digest (full of by-products and corn), after they got better, I got a higher quality limited ingredient food and they were doing fine for a few days, but started with the nausea again. I was desperate and didn't know what to do, I thought they were allergic to chicken but they eat their chicken kibble just fine. I was reading the label of their new food and I found salmon oil as one of the ingredients. I am 90% sure that this is what was causing the nausea. I bought a bag of frozen raw food today (Stella and chewys duck, duck, goose dinner morsels) to start the transition, I sprinkled some forti-flora on top but they were not interested. One of them ate the food eventually. Once they fully transitioned to raw, I would like to start making my own cat raw food and I was wondering if I can skip the salmon/ fish oil or substitute it with something else. Also, is there any way that I can feed a combination of high quality grain free kibble and raw food? This is because of my work hours.
