http://www.felinenutrition.net/before_after.html
not many pictures but there are still some. If I can find the pictures that I took of the farm cats before and after I'll try get them on my photobucket sometime.
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Before and After Pics of Cats Fed Raw
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Posted 2 years ago by furryfriends50 #
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You don't have to convince me - when Mamma Kitty started going downhill a few months ago, I started adding raw chicken and beef to her diet and took away nearly all of the dry food. She was still eating canned food along with the raw meat, but I saw a huge change in her health. Mamma Kitty visibly felt better and seemed to have a lot more energy. She started going outside again, she started hanging out in the living room again and bugging us for food from our plates, and she even started hunting again and actually eating what she caught. And she stayed healthy until two days before she died when the illness she had been battling for the past year caught up with her.
Posted 2 years ago by owlwatcher_974 #
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"Instincts" is what I tried to give them--they wouldn't touch it. I couldn't remember what the name of it was until I saw it on your link. I was convinced it was the way to go, it makes sense to me. But if they won't eat it not much I could do. The ferals loved it though!
Posted 2 years ago by Sheba's Mom in Raleigh, NC #
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You can't trust that if they didn't like a certain brand of raw that they won't eat it. It is a differant texture/smell/taste than they are used to so it takes time to switch.
I have never fed any premade so don't know if mine would even eat it that way. I choose to make it myself.
Even the farm cats took time. You'd think they wouldn't because they are used to the idea of eating mice even though food is provided for them. I think that most of them got won over by jeolousy lol!
Clover, a cat that I took because no one wanted her and was allergic to her switched to raw over a few months. What won her over was lamb heart. She before was fed only purina one which IMO is junk and had never eaten wet food.
Posted 2 years ago by furryfriends50 #
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Thanks for the pics, FF. I'm trying to remember how much to feed them when feeding raw. I'm now feeding them only small quantities of chopped chicken breast, with parmesan cheese sprinkled on top, and a little bit of powdered Taurine tablets. I think Jasmine is 7 lbs., and I'm guessing Kensho is about 3.5 or 4 pounds. I'm not giving them any other food. They look at me like they want something else, as if to say, "Where's our NORMAL food?" It so happens I'm out of canned.
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What would you guess is going to be Kensho's adult body wieght?
7 lb adult cat:
2% of body wieght:
2.24 ounces total per day
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1.792 muscle meat
0.224 ounces bone
0.112 liver
0.112 kidney2.5% (what I am feeding):
2.8 ounces total per day
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2.24 ounces muscle meat
0.28 ounces bone
0.14 ounces liver
0.14 ounces kidney3% body wieght:
3.36 ounces per day
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2.688 ounces muscle meat
0.336 ounces bone
0.168 liver
0.168 kidneyI am horrible at math so hopefully this is right.
Posted 2 years ago by furryfriends50 #
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Okay, I guess I'm going to have to buy a scale then. I'm resistant to the breakdown of bones and muscles. How am I supposed to figure out if my cat is getting .224 ounces of bone per day? In fact, they are getting zero bones. For them to get bones I would have to have a grinder. Will a butcher even grind up meat WITH the bone? But 2.24 ounces per day gives me a good approximation of what to feed Jasmine. Thanks FF!
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Well, if you are feeding chicken breast there should be bone in it. Cut off all the meat and wiegh the bones off of an average sized chicken breast. You can figure out the right amount of bones per day off of that.
Chicken thighs if you can get them off of young chickens the thigh is small enough for a cat to eat. I figure with the ones I get that they are 20% bone so they get all thighs w/ the right amount of liver/kidney one day and then boneless something the next.
All mine are perfectly happy to eat the bones. It provides lots of workout for their teeth. In fact they don't regard ground as food though since the only way I can get lamb for cheap is to buy it ground I have to mix it in with non ground meat.
Posted 2 years ago by furryfriends50 #
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FF, I'm unclear on the meaning of "should" in your first sentence. The word can mean "ought to," as in an obligation, or it can mean "usually is," depending on context. Since I bought only the chicken breast, it has no bone in it. I don't see how a cat can eat bones. I don't want to have to feed my cats bones. I don't want to cut all the meat off a chicken. If knawing on bones is important, I suppose I could buy some drumsticks and feed them those. But I can't see that they will be able to actually eat the bone. More likely they will knaw on it a while and then abandon it.
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When I get chicken breast I get it with bones still in. Chicken breasts have ribs in them which are the easiest bone for a cat to eat as they are really thin. Mine literally eat the whole bone, there is nothing left when they are done, even when fed chicken thighs.
When you feed raw you have to feed bones because else there are some real inbalances with calcuim etc and they have to eat the bone. Like I said, I mainly guesstimate the amount of bones they are getting. If I feed bone in chicken I figure that they are getting enough bones for the day and half of the next.
Chicken wings are mainly bone so if you were to use those you wouldn't have to cut any meat off. So, if you were to wiegh a chicken wing you can figure out how much it wieghs and use that as the bone for the next day or two as they are easy to just twist in half.
Any bone in meal should have liver with it. You have to feed the right amount of liver and kidney because else again the raw diet isn't going to work.
Cats eat mice - they have bones and cats are fine with them. I've never seen a boneless mouse trying to run around (or how would they move, slide?).
Posted 2 years ago by furryfriends50 #
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Oscar was 14 the first time I showed him some chicken breast with ribs. He crunched the ribs right up!!! It's no different than feeding kibble, only it's better for their teeth.
Posted 2 years ago by leighangela #
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