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We're marking the one week mark for Mrowmrow on raw!! Yay!!
His diet is NOT balanced yet-- this entire week I've just been making sure he will consistently eat. I'm feeding a mix from My Pet Carnivore, just chicken, but have spooned in a little bit of ground whole beef, and have added some finely cut up gizzards and chicken hearts. He will not eat liver, which is a problem for another day, I guess. I do have planned to order Alnutrin TODAY, and have planned to order a big tub of chicken hearts, some ground up beef spleen, and two other protein sources to try, so hopefully it will be considered more "balanced" by next week!
The mix is bone-heavy, I've learned, but I have been trying to do about half muscle meat (mostly gizzard; the "gizzard and heart mix" from Kroger is like 10% heart, go figure) to even it out. He's eating about 2.4 ounces twice a day. He weighs ~8 lbs., and I think that's a good weight for him. He's consistently weighed ~8 lbs. for the last 5 years, despite being free-fed dry food.
His poop is weird. I do use a crystal cat litter that desiccates stool to prevent odor, which can sometimes change the color, but now his poop is a tan color. It's also no smaller than when he was eating kibble. My baseline for raw poop is only from my dog, and it would be tiny little chalky pellets.
There's no mucus, no runny stool, no blood, etc., but I'm not sure what, if anything, his poop is telling me.
Good morning conversation. Sorry if anyone was eating while reading this!!
His diet is NOT balanced yet-- this entire week I've just been making sure he will consistently eat. I'm feeding a mix from My Pet Carnivore, just chicken, but have spooned in a little bit of ground whole beef, and have added some finely cut up gizzards and chicken hearts. He will not eat liver, which is a problem for another day, I guess. I do have planned to order Alnutrin TODAY, and have planned to order a big tub of chicken hearts, some ground up beef spleen, and two other protein sources to try, so hopefully it will be considered more "balanced" by next week!
The mix is bone-heavy, I've learned, but I have been trying to do about half muscle meat (mostly gizzard; the "gizzard and heart mix" from Kroger is like 10% heart, go figure) to even it out. He's eating about 2.4 ounces twice a day. He weighs ~8 lbs., and I think that's a good weight for him. He's consistently weighed ~8 lbs. for the last 5 years, despite being free-fed dry food.
His poop is weird. I do use a crystal cat litter that desiccates stool to prevent odor, which can sometimes change the color, but now his poop is a tan color. It's also no smaller than when he was eating kibble. My baseline for raw poop is only from my dog, and it would be tiny little chalky pellets.
There's no mucus, no runny stool, no blood, etc., but I'm not sure what, if anything, his poop is telling me.
Good morning conversation. Sorry if anyone was eating while reading this!!
You should see normal brown stools once you've corrected the bone content.
