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My cats now eat raw but...
Well it's official, Kira and Jadzia are now raw meat eating machines! I've been giving raw since mid-November 3-4 times a week. The rest of the week, it's Wellness canned food. I feed them in the morning and late afternoon when I get home from work. I always keep a bowl of dry Wellness Core just in case they need food during the day.(As if they are starving cats!)
They really loved Wellness Core in the beginning but now that raw and canned are their main staple, they don't touch the dry food, especially Jadzia. She doesn't want anything to do with it. She'd rather wait for the other stuff. Kira will sometimes eat a little dry food but not very much. I know dry food isn't ideal but I can't help feeling as if I've created little monsters! What if for some reason hubby and I have to spend the night somewhere else (maybe a romantic getaway!) and I can't find anyone to come to my house, morning and evening to feed my carnivors? I live in the country and my friends/coworkers don't live nearby. I have to admit, in such a case, dry food is very convenient but now they won't eat it! I guess I don't have any choice, I must never leave my cats! Any suggestions?
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Tell us pleeeeeease how you did it. Tried raw again with my cats this weekend and they chose to go hungry. They currently eat Wellness canned, Go Natural canned and Orijen kibble. Two will eat some cooked meat, Jasper won't touch anything real. I had foster kittens on raw and they prefered it to any cat food, but it was easy with them. Started them on raw at 4 weeks. It is the adults I am having problems with.
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And congratulations on the diet switch, that's awesome!!
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Yes I did that this weekend and have tried that while I had my foster kittens, but just didn't have the time to fight with the adults when I had 10 cats in the house to deal with. For Jasper who is an orijen lover, I have even tried putting a tiny piece of raw meat on his kibble and hand feeding him, kibble by kibble, got only one piece in him. I also did this with Sweet Pea and managed to get two pieces of kibble with some raw on it before she realized what I was doing, then she quit eating Added little raw to Puddle's Wellness and she sniffed it, took a couple of licks, then tried to bury it. Puddles will eat cooked meat sometimes since changing her food to Wellness so I am making some headway with her. I will not give up, I still want them on raw.
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Cat maid to: Rose semi feral, a cpietra rescue, female tabby (approx 13 yrs) Jasper RIP (2001-2018) Sweet Pea RIP (2004?-2014) Puddles RIP (1996-2014) Snowball RIP (1991-2005) In a cat's eye, all things belong to cats.-English Proverb “While we are free to choose our actions, we are not free to choose the consequences of our actions.” Stephen R. Covey |
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I didn't have trouble converting them, but is it because they were relatively young when I started feeding small amounts of raw meat? Is it because they hunt mice in summer and have occasionally eaten one so they know what raw is? Who knows? I guess I'm lucky. I am grateful it wasn't difficult because I don't have the patience to try all sorts of tricks to get them to eat raw. Have you tried different kinds of meat? Have you tried canned salmon, tuna or mackerel? It might help if they eat something different than cat food but not as drastic as raw meat. My next step is to get them to eat raw chicken wings. I've heard it really helps keep teeth clean. I am using Petzlife dental gel but I would prefer if they chewed on bones instead. Maybe that's where I will hit a snag! Anyway, good luck!
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Part of the problem is me too, very busy and just don't have the energy to fight with them to get them to eat. It took months of frustration and tears to change Puddles's food to Wellness from a junk grocery store brand and her kibble.
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Cat maid to: Rose semi feral, a cpietra rescue, female tabby (approx 13 yrs) Jasper RIP (2001-2018) Sweet Pea RIP (2004?-2014) Puddles RIP (1996-2014) Snowball RIP (1991-2005) In a cat's eye, all things belong to cats.-English Proverb “While we are free to choose our actions, we are not free to choose the consequences of our actions.” Stephen R. Covey |
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