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Hello All,
I am new to this community, and I'm thrilled to have found such a helpful resource. I have 6 cats, and have been feeding them raw for the past two years. Most of that time I've spent worrying about my cats' nutrition, and feeling alone without anyone to turn to for definitive answers. With six cats (7 cats up until this past N.Y.E.), and three with health issues, my selection of feeding options is limited, but I am doing my absolute best for my furbabies. There should be a such thing as a cat therapist - someone who would listen to me talk for hours about all my cat related stress, and joys of course, and give advice.
Up until now, I have mostly been feeding the cat-nutrition.org recipe with chicken thighs and chicken liver(both Sanderson Farms brand), which I grind with my Tasin 108. They also occasionally get boneless pork and beef from the grocery, with the cat-nutrition recipe, and bone meal. My cats have grow very tired of the chicken, and never were really thrilled with it. I have found the Sanderson Farms thighs to be very fatty(especially with leaving on half the skin as the recipe calls for), so I'm wondering if this could cause them to not like it, and if this seemingly high fat content could cause health issues?
I am considering purchasing a selection of meats from Hare Today so that all varieties of meat I offer my cats will have bone as the calcium source. Two of my cats have irritable bowel, and seem to not tolerate the meats without bone. I am hoping to keep using the Sanderson Farms chicken thighs as well, since it is the most affordable. My question is - when diluting the bone ratio in HT mixes with boneless meat and organs (as calculated from the raw food dilution calculator), what organs should be used? Would it be acceptable to add in the "organ mixes" from HT? For example, their chicken organ mix contains an even mix of liver, heart and gizzards, but aren't hearts and gizzards considered a muscle meat?-I read that somewhere. So should I only add in livers (for the organ addition) to dilute the bone ratio? I hope these questions make sense!
Thanks so much for any input.
I am new to this community, and I'm thrilled to have found such a helpful resource. I have 6 cats, and have been feeding them raw for the past two years. Most of that time I've spent worrying about my cats' nutrition, and feeling alone without anyone to turn to for definitive answers. With six cats (7 cats up until this past N.Y.E.), and three with health issues, my selection of feeding options is limited, but I am doing my absolute best for my furbabies. There should be a such thing as a cat therapist - someone who would listen to me talk for hours about all my cat related stress, and joys of course, and give advice.
Up until now, I have mostly been feeding the cat-nutrition.org recipe with chicken thighs and chicken liver(both Sanderson Farms brand), which I grind with my Tasin 108. They also occasionally get boneless pork and beef from the grocery, with the cat-nutrition recipe, and bone meal. My cats have grow very tired of the chicken, and never were really thrilled with it. I have found the Sanderson Farms thighs to be very fatty(especially with leaving on half the skin as the recipe calls for), so I'm wondering if this could cause them to not like it, and if this seemingly high fat content could cause health issues?
I am considering purchasing a selection of meats from Hare Today so that all varieties of meat I offer my cats will have bone as the calcium source. Two of my cats have irritable bowel, and seem to not tolerate the meats without bone. I am hoping to keep using the Sanderson Farms chicken thighs as well, since it is the most affordable. My question is - when diluting the bone ratio in HT mixes with boneless meat and organs (as calculated from the raw food dilution calculator), what organs should be used? Would it be acceptable to add in the "organ mixes" from HT? For example, their chicken organ mix contains an even mix of liver, heart and gizzards, but aren't hearts and gizzards considered a muscle meat?-I read that somewhere. So should I only add in livers (for the organ addition) to dilute the bone ratio? I hope these questions make sense!
Thanks so much for any input.