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Old March 8th, 2011, 04:57 PM
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Info about great success feeding Wysong's raw-dehydrated meats on the Raw Meaty Bones For Healthy Pets blog, http://rmb4healthypets.blogspot.com/

I haven’t tried this & don’t know about availability or cost, but it sounds like cats LOVE it!

From:
“Cats: Beneficiaries of the Raw-Meaty-Bones Diet” blog post
Dec. 31, 2010,

http://rmb4healthypets.blogspot.com/...aty-bones.html

“…[Wysong’s] Epigen is a starch-free dry food for cats and dogs. Epigen is more than 60% meat, more than 60% proteins, and the rest is mostly animal fats -- in other words, a convenient but suitable dry food for carnivorous pets.

For reasons unknown at this time, cats LOVE Epigen. Not just my cat, but all the cats of Kona Raw [co-op] members. We collect amusing tales of cats running to eat when the Epigen bag is opened for the first time. Must be something in the aroma. Cats gobble up Epigen, fending off the dogs for whom the bowl was intended. Cats don't seem to know this is a new food they should instinctively avoid, as they do other new foods.

Daisy now weighs 16 pounds, on her way to full maturity -- around 18 pounds at three years-of-age. Other skinny and sick cats are similarly being helped by the addition of Epigen to their raw diets.

Several cat owners who recently joined the co-op have sick to very sick cats. There are cats with chronic renal failure, with wide-spread food allergies, with tumors, and other distressing maladies. Owners are feeding raw-meaty-bones to make their pets well or to give them happier lives until the end. So far, owners are reporting good results with cats accepting raw meats and chicken bones. They also find that Epigen is a helpful addition to their cats' diets.

Whereas dogs will eat almost anything (that doesn't eat them first, as one vet told me years ago), cats are much more selective in what they will consume. Some cats won't eat beef liver; other thrive on it. Some cats love green tripe; others sniff and find it as distasteful as most pet owners do. Some cats crunch up chicken bones as well as dogs do; others won't chew up anything harder than an Epigen pellet. It's trial-and-error to devise a good raw diet for cats, and repeated trials at that. By combining raw meats with Epigen, owners feel more secure that their cats are getting nutrients they need to get well and thrive.

I have much to learn from experienced cat owners in the Kona Raw co-op. The canine-o-centric focus of the co-op has changed. Felines rule!”

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Something else I'd like to explore...

Apparently, many cats also enjoy homemade canned meat as an alternative to canned food with unknown ingrediants. You could try it and explore adding supplements before feeding to make it balanced - if your cat likes it.

Dr. Lisa Pierson writes about it on her site, www.catinfo.org
under Making Cat Food (http://www.catinfo.org/?link=makingcatfood):

“There is a very helpful page on the Raw Meat Cat Food Company website. It provides information on canning cat food. My Robbie does not do well on any commercial canned food (he gets severe diarrhea) so this is a great alternative for me in an emergency situation so I don't have to use commercial canned foods. (see http://rawmeatcatfood.com/2010/08/20...-for-your-cat/)

I purchased this pressure canner [link on http://www.catinfo.org/?link=makingcatfood] and now have homemade canned chicken, turkey, and rabbit cat food available for periodic feedings and for emergencies. This canned food also comes in handy if I have to be gone for 12 hours on a hot day. I leave this food out instead of the raw/semi-cooked diet. This canned food is also safe for human consumption so it doubles as an emergency supply for both two-legged and four-legged members of the house.

Please note that I said for "periodic feedings". I have no idea what nutrients and in what amounts are destroyed in the canning process so I would not want to feed this diet as a sole diet for more than a week or two during an emergency situation.”
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