Day 10

[admin]

How much fancy feast does she eat vs raw food? How much dry does she eat?

Her stools do not look normal to me at all. but it may just be the photo...

 

[Patti]

As long as the bones are uncooked they will just chew them up and swallow them. Occasionally larger pieces they will leave in the bowl. The bones should never be cooked as that is where you run into issues with bone shards and potential choking.

Hope that helps!

I don't think give buffalo or venison bones, but raw chicken bones are fine.

 

[John Popp]

Agreed Patti, I should have suggested bones from animals with a reasonable expectation of being prey animals.

I also wouldn't have any reservation about feeding bone from larger animals if I had ran it through my grinder.

 

[Jacq]

She may be eating litter because she has a lack of calcium in her diet. Please feed her raw chicken with bones!


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[John Popp]

Hey MM3, I recalled what the supplement most are using for slab meat so you can get the necessary amount of calcium in their diet. It's a Mazuri product called Carnivore Supplement for Slab Meat. Here's a link for it and I hope it helps provide some remedy.

http://www.mazuri.com/MazuriCarnivoreSupplementforSlabMeat.aspx

 

[Becki]

Definitely get her some bones. I gave Kovu whole chicken legs when he was teething and he was happy. I just made sure I knew where the prey was being dragged off and hidden if he didn't eat the whole thing. I would get ground rabbit and venison from hair today, bones, insides, the whole shebang (except fur, but you can have that, too!) as that is how raw should be fed to get all the nutrients for little fur faces. I would mix alnutrin in it, also sold by hare today. I also feed primal for cats, that has the bone ground in there already as does instinct raw if you don't want to grind your own like me!

 

[John Popp]

I'd stay away from the raw with fur, it makes for some nasty cat yak as I and others have found.

 

[SV Dad]

On a serious note, Witchy mentioned some advanced knowledge of scat. Surprised she hasn't rendered an opinion.

 

[MM3]

You should absolutely be including bones or bone meal with your cats raw diet. Not sure if you're grinding but if not you can pick up bone meal and add it into your raw mixture. I also think there are a fair amount of supplements people use for feeding slab meats without bones that includes the other necessities. I have never ran that route, but I am sure there are a few people who can chime in.

As long as the bones are uncooked they will just chew them up and swallow them. Occasionally larger pieces they will leave in the bowl. The bones should never be cooked as that is where you run into issues with bone shards and potential choking.

Hope that helps!

Thanks for all the valuable information, will grind bones tomorrow. How often should she be given bone meal? Daily???

 

[John Popp]

Our cats were getting bone every day as it was ground into their raw recipes. They were fed whole ground rabbit (without fur), duck, chicken and pheasant all ground with bones in place. The rabbit was the only food that they would occasionally leave some bone fragments in their dishes and all the rest they would clean up pretty good.

In the interim it might be best to just use a tablespoon of bone meal per pound of slab muscle meat which you can pick up at a local health food store. That will get you by until you are able to start grinding bone in meats or pick up a product like the Mazuri one mentioned previously.

Hope that helps!