Feeding A Raw Meat Diet? Just A Few Questions?
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Nov 2nd, 2009 |
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1 – what are the best raw meats to buy?
2 – i have heard you have to keep it frigerated all the time? When i get some peices of raw meat out do i just heat it? And i heard you have to put water on it after getting the meat out?
Thank you and please answer, srry im asking so many questions im just curious about raw- meat feeding.
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1. Some choose to feed any meat at all. I choose to not feed pork because of its high sodium. You can try all different types of meat and see which ones your cat likes. My cats Binnie and Marble both like turkey, chicken and duck. Binnie also likes deer while Marble likes beef. Neither liked fish. I didn’t like rabbit. And we’re about to try quail. I haven’t tried cornish hens or lamb.
2. I order my raw food from http://mypetcarnivore.com and, when I pick it up, it is frozen. I normally purchase 20-25 lbs at a time. I’ll put 10-15 lbs in the freezer and the rest in the fridge to thaw. It takes about 2-3 days to thaw then I separate the meat into baggies with 1/4 cup of raw food. Then I put the baggies in a freezer bag and put in the freezer. I only leave 1 and 1/2 day’s worth of food in the fridge once everything is separated. My cat’s eat 1/2 cup of food per day so that equals 4 baggies of food in the fridge. I normally put 6 baggies in the fridge so it will already be thawed and replace each day.
Once it’s feeding time, I feed it to them straight out of the fridge. They do not mind cold food. However, some cats won’t eat cold food. In this case, I soak the already thawed baggie in a small bowl of lukewarm water for about 1 min. If the water is too hot, you risk cooking the bone that’s mixed in the meat. Cooked bone is a choking hazard and can pierce their insides. Raw bone is perfectly safe.
If you are feeding raw meat as a treat, that’s great. However, if raw food will be the main diet, you’ll want to incorporate bone and organs in the food as just plain meat is not sufficient and they will eventually have health problems. The food I purchase has the muscle meat, bone, organ and blood. This is their main diet with canned as a snack once or twice per week. They do not eat dry food.
It is best to consult some reputable sites on line for the best approach. They will give you the best suggestions and precautions to take, and what you need to supplement the diet.
Often, the best approach is to purchase commercial raw food diets that are already prepared to contain all the necessary ingredients and trace components.
If you find a site on-line, which then wants to sell you that “magic ingredient” that makes it special, skip it. That is not the type of site you want to use.
A do-it yourself raw meat diet can be rather demanding.
If you are considering feeding your cat a raw diet, you should first consider dehydrated raw food first. I feed my cats Prowl cat food because it is an all-natural, dehydrated raw food that is made from USDA chicken, eggs, potatoes, yams, organic flaxseed, zucchini, spinach, honey, cranberries, rosemary, vitamins and minerals.
Prowl contains absolutely no by-products, added salt or sugar, chemical preservatives, artificial colors or flavors and NO beet pulp, rice, wheat, corn, or soy.http://www.petwellbeing.com/prowl-cat-fo…
i will occasionally feed my cat raw beef. (unlike pork and poultry its very clean) but would suggest that if you intend to make this your cats primary food, then keep it light.