There are alot of "animal products" out there. I'm ruling out all commercial pet food because it either has by-products or preservatives in it. Too hard on the kidneys to filter that out. As for other animal products could you possibly clarify? I find myself having to switch over from what was just feeding what he was willing to eat, then started to cut back on the protein so that it wouldn't overload the kidneys, now I'm back to offering him raw beef, cooked beef, cooked and raw chicken, a little fish and he's drinking water more than he has before. Don't know about that. Should there not be a differentiation between feeding a young cat and feeding an elderly one? I'm wondering too if with just beef, chicken and occasionally fish, yogurt, and now omega 3/6/9 which I've just added, if the diet is balanced. I'm still trying. too, to grasp that pets know what to eat, how much to eat, and when to eat because give them cat food with absolutely no nutritional that's full of corn and by-products and they don't want to eat raw beef, it's not highly flavoured enough. Don't cats, in the wild, eat the stomach contents of mice,etc, and what provides that in the dosmeticated cat's diet. In the wild a cat could forage for what it needs but domesticated and now, more and more, confined to houses they can't and if it's missing from the diet they can't go out and get it. It becomes a matter of the person trying to make up for it by providing as much as possible what they would get in the wild, but can they? BTW, you mentioned giving "bone" how does one provide that? Would bonemeal do?Thanks again, in advance for any clarification you may give.

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