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Hello
I have been feeding my cats a raw food diet for the past few months. It has really improved their health and coat. But I am concerned that it is not balanced. Heres what they get 3 parts meat(either ground steak, or chicken) to one part veggies
(usaully a mix). In the meat there is about a tablespoon of bonemeal per cup of meat, along with a teaspoon of multivittiam, they also sometimes get fresh fish in there. Am I missing any crucial things or am I okay? Also does the meat have to be ground or are meat chuncks suffficiant?

I don't know much about the raw food diet for felines. Have you checked out the "Ask the Holistic Vet" folder? Our Holistic vet may have a better answer for you.

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Posted by: superabby at Mon Dec 15 18:52:46 2003 [ Report Abuse ] [ Email Message ]

Hello
I have been feeding my cats a raw food diet for the past few months. It has really improved their health and coat.
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Although i'm not a believer in raw meat for any pet i'm happy that your cats are doing well.I think Madame Altos answer would be the best advice.
Lou

I am trying (I say trying as Corkie will ONLY eat the chicken breasts and not any other meat! to get Corkie on raw and I have been told they need organ meat (mainly heart) for taurine, and muscle meat (Dark meat) and either dry ground egg shells for calcium or calcium itself. Also they need a multi vitamin.

For best results join the rawcats group on yahoogroups. There is another good group but it covers a LOT of things and not just raw, and it is holisticat.com! Raw cats is: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/RawCats/ Good luck and hope to see you on one of these!
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>>Hello
>>I have been feeding my cats a raw food diet for the past few months. It has really improved their health and coat. But I am concerned that it is not balanced. Heres what they get 3 parts meat(either ground steak, or chicken) to one part veggies
>>usaully a mix). In the meat there is about a tablespoon of bonemeal per cup of meat, along with a teaspoon of multivittiam, they also sometimes get fresh fish in there. Am I missing any crucial things or am I okay? Also does the meat have to be ground or are meat chuncks suffficiant?

We fed our cats a raw food diet for awhile and unfortunatly had to stop. We started out with all of them really liking it and we saw alot of growth, coat improvment etc. but then Othello decided he didn't care for it, and stopped eating. We decided to put them all back on catfood, since we obviously had to, with Othello. I would say, use a bit more organ meat, turkey is a good idea too. Also, add a multi vite / multi mineral, extra vite C and vite E, as well as a little seseme oil or safflower oil. We also fed a small amount of grains (never corn though), but not everyone feels that you should. If you can get a little fruit in with the veggies that would be good. Also, feed a couple of soft boiled eggs per week and a little dairy if you like (cottage cheese, plain yogut, cheese chunks). Best of luck to you-- I wish we could have kept it up!-- Jennifer
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"I saw Othello's visage in his mind,
And to his honours and his valiant parts
Did I my soul and fortunes consecrate."

Dance in the burning flame. Pleasure exhumes the pain. The night bursts into flame. Dance Helena, dance!

Now this is a healthy cat and look at the coat,its so shinny you have to wear sun glasses to look at it.LOL
Lou

Whooee! I am indeed blinded by this handsome, healthy feline!
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Posted by: PHMadameAlto at Sun Dec 28 22:28:52 2003 [ Report Abuse ] [ Email Message ]

Whooee! I am indeed blinded by this handsome, healthy feline!
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AH.. yoz just saying that because its true.
Babba

So it seems that a raw food diet is not what is best for my cats. The proof a 400 dollar vet bill. They are all sick, and the culprit raw food. it seems that cats under a year should not have raw food they cannot handle it. It needs to be cooked for them.
Well looks like i will be switching to wellness brand cat food. No artifical colors/perservatives, human grade meat, good stuff. And it actually smells good too. The turkey dinner, I wanted to eat. You can see real chunks of meat and veggies in it wow!

Posted by: superabby at Mon Dec 29 17:39:31 2003 [ Report Abuse ] [ Email Message ]

So it seems that a raw food diet is not what is best for my cats. The proof a 400 dollar vet bill. They are all sick, and the culprit raw food. it seems that cats under a year should not have raw food they cannot handle it.

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Abby i hanen't said to much about this but when i was a young i worked for a trainer that fed his dogs raw meat for one reason only and i swore i would never feed my pets raw anything.
Babba choses his own food and it took a few choices to see what he really wants.He does get some table food like shrimp,olives,chicken and turkey but its all cooked and and he gets it when i have it.His main diet is Fancy Feast and Friskies in a can and Meow Mix and Science Diet in Dry food.This was his choice and he loves them.He loves the fish type foods in the can espically salmon.I really belive that the commercial foods are better for our animals because they are prepared by professionals and have all the essentials our animals need to keep them happy and healthy.I see a lot of sickness on the boards and never seen any caused by commercial foods.
Boy am i in trouble now.LOL (Average cost per day is .35) and no vet bills
Lou