Raw food diet - Cat

[dojo]

So want to move my kitten (7 months old) across to a raw food diet.

Currently he is just on decent pouchs and have been giving him a chicken wing for the past week as a evening snack which he absolutely loves and eats pretty much most of including the bone (except the ball joint) I was going to try and source some chicken, neck, feet & ribs to mix it up a bit for him too

Where do people buy their meat from, do you buy all ready ground with the liver and bone in and what do you add in the way of supplements?

I was looking at websites where you can buy frozen mixes like the one below, has anyone got any experience with this sort of thing?

https://www.kiezebrink.co.uk/category/72-kiezebrin...

Thanks in advance

[dojo]

Jasandjules said:

Where in the country are you? Places like They Love It do chicken minces etc and there are a few places who will deliver but only to certain areas. We have a local raw food supplier who will do pheasant mince, we get beef chunks from a butcher, they get lamb mince and so on. We also get ox heart and liver which they love.

Are you on facebook? If so there is a group called Cats Completely Raw and Proud which I think has lists of suppliers.

Thanks, I'll look into it. I'm near Guildford.
I've seen you post on a lot of nutrition
threads.. Do you add supplements into the food you feed your cat/dog??

[dojo]

jmsgld said:

Cats have very specific nutritional requirements, far more so than dogs, it's not as simple as saying it's an obligate carnivore lets feed it chicken wings.

Are commercial cat foods perfect? No, they are however the result of a great deal of research into the nutritional requirements of pet cats, and try their best to answer both the pet cat's, and the owner's needs.

In the original post I posted a link to a site where you can buy frozen, rabbit, veal, lamb, chicken which is a mixture of organs, bone and meat and was wondering what supplements people added to these types of diets (fish oil, taurine etc) the wings are only as an additional snack.

Surely this has to be better than brand X cat food that contains 4% meat, is full of cereal to bulk it out and has the majority of the protein coming from vegetable extracts?

Absolutely I agree that the chicken in this country has questionable processes but must be better than boxes of cat biscuits sat in warm trucks, warehouses, kitchen cupboards which can only be a haven for bacteria.

Re texture question, I've never seen a cat work as hard and chew as much in meal as when he eats a chicken wing/drum stick, he hardly even chews the biscuits and they're so brittle I doubt they do anything for his teeth.

[dojo]

HotJambalaya said:

http://www.naturalinstinct.com/categories/Cat-Food...

Job done.

Funny you should mention this, we stumbled across it yesterday. Bought a kilo to see how it goes... Doesnt work out much more than buying it in separate.

[dojo]

bexVN said:

: I will be honest I worry that raw feeding is not followed well by all owners.

I would have thought that anyone who is even looking into feeding Raw takes their cats nutrition seriously, not saying people who feed processed wet or dry don't but to get to the raw point most will have read up the pros and cons re processed and come to the conclusion that raw offers a better solution.

Personally I have massive reservations about dry food but what also concerns me about wet food is that on many of the standard tins of food their are no ingredient lists.. Why not? What is there to hide??
Looking at Whiskers pouches 4% meat and cereals, that says it all really, James Wellbeloved 35% and pea protein, hmm if I put a bowl of peas down I can't see my cat being that impressed, protein from meat has to be better. Natural instinct raw is 94% meat all of which is human grade meat. Sourcing ones own meat would give you an extra level of control.