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It's a long story so I'll go through this really quick, 5 months ago I hand-reared 3 orphans only to lose 2 of the 3 to babesiosis at around 5 months old. I have one survivor, ironically the runt of the litter who has really turned out to be quite the fighter. The treatment she received has left her with kidney troubles and an inability to eat solid food - she chews, swallows and then brings back up anything she has has to chew covered in a thick ball of saliva. We were hoping this would be temporary but as it has now been 10 days, it's time to try and figure out a more long-term feeding plan for her. The orphans were weaned from the bottle straight to raw, and my surviving girl refuses (even with syringe feeding) anything other than raw, so blended raw it is at the moment. I don't have a bone grinder, and being in Turkey, I have no idea where I would get one and even with a grinder, how I would get it to a consistency that would pass through a syringe. At the moment I am using egg shells to try and replace the bone she needs, but how will this affect her in the long term? We could be looking at chronic kidney disease and the saliva issue may never clear up (we are hoping both will reverse in time), so if anyone knows of any good sources of information for raw feeding cats with ckd or syringe feeding raw, I would really appreciate it.