Thread: My raw feeding experiment

Hi Antonia, thanks for your kind comments & also for the tips on what to feed for variety. I'll have a look at those links at the weekend. Your cats look gorgeous, I love his eyes in that 2nd last pic!
The reason why I think she might need more dried food is because she doesn't get much variety of meat types. I can't get day old chicks, I've enquired but I hadn't thought of beef heart, liver & prawns. But I can't get any of the rest of it.
I should've made it clear in my last post that the rabbits that I feed are wild rabbits (they destroy my garden!) & the chicken carcasses are butcher's waste that I have always got for the dogs. I have used day old chicks for years when living in England for feeding birds of prey & dogs & would just like to mention that you should de-yolk the majority of them because the yolk is so high in cholesterol.
Thanks :0)

Yes, I agree, the above mentioned thread makes fascinating reading.

I would also recommend you check out this website:

Feline Nutrition

I wish I had found it earlier. It would have saved me a lot of worry.

Larry and Monty's turkey drumstick.
They ate all the leg meat (I cut it off for them in strips). Then they had a good old chew on the meaty bone. Keeps their teeth bright white, LA-style!



They also have whole minced rabbit, beef trim, beef heart, ox tongue, pork, chicken wings, legs, ribs, breast meat, whole poussin when I can get it, chicken necks, lamb or pig's liver and kidney, and a mix called 'choice chunks' which is beef and lamb meat and organs. Occasionally, they have cooked white fish, and drained tinned fish (sardine, tuna, pilchard) as a treat, and whole small mice.

My vet gave me some free samples of RC 'veterinary' kibble. The primary ingredient was 'wheat gluten'. Primary ingredient! For an obligate carnivore? How can that ever be right? Then it goes: dehydrated poultry meat, maize flour, vegetable fibres, maize gluten, rice, barley, maize (again!) animal fats (that's the stuff they spray on to make it palatable - what a joke!) hydrolysed animal protein, chicory pulp, minerals, fish oil, and then all the other stuff they have to replace having cooked it to death, including taurine. This 'food' is only 36% protein - for an obligate carnivore, remember?

This stuff has the word 'veterinary' on the packet in big letters. If I were a vet, I'd be ashamed and embarrassed to be anywhere near it.

Originally Posted by Siobhradh

Hi Antonia, thanks for your kind comments & also for the tips on what to feed for variety. I'll have a look at those links at the weekend. Your cats look gorgeous, I love his eyes in that 2nd last pic!

Thanks for your kind comments on my cats. Yes, the eyes of little Minnie (she’s a girl btw) certainly show her mad streak … in Holland we call a girl like her a ‘durak’, which is Malaysian for ‘siobhradh’.
What a shame raw meats and organs are so hard to find where you live. If you must supplement the raw diet with commercial food, I would strongly advise against the dry stuff. It contains far too much carbs, which can interfere with the proper digestion of raw meat. Better feed a grainfree canned food instead.
You are right about the day-old chicks… they are hardly more than eggs on legs. I only feed them as an occasional treat.

Take care,
Anna