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Raw meat. Cats and dogs are carnivore.
by alacombe 7y ago
Raw meat. Cats and dogs are carnivore.
- dangus 7y agoDon’t just do this without the aid of your vet. Cats and dogs need specific nutrients that are already formulated into pet foods.
- alacombe 7y agoRemark from our vet, from feeding raw to our 3 cats: "we've never seen cats in such a good shape". Two of them have been on raw since kitten, one of which was pretty young and in pretty bad shape while being fed commercial crap after she got abandoned by her mother. She was no more than a couple of week at the time, bloated belly, etc. Everything she was eating was pretty much passing through undigested. As for the third one, we transitioned her from kibble to raw and she got noticeably less bloated and got much nicer pelt.
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- drstewart 7y agoDogs are not carnivores
- improbable22 7y agoBut just raw muscle isn't necessarily great -- I think there are lots of nutrients they would get from specific organs in the wild. One vet's recommendation was to alternate with high-tech dry food, which is likely to have these things. And some vegetables.
- Merrill 7y agoWhen we fed a rabbit or squirrel to the farm cats, they always ate the guts first. That's where the vital nutrients are.
- alacombe 7y agoThis is the case of many predators in the wild: eat the guts/organs first (often with the prey still alive).
- improbable22 7y agoRight. Although IIRC there is also a danger of them over-dosing on some of this, if given a whole meal of liver or something. They're wired to like it, but nature didn't bother with a mechanism to know when to stop.
- alacombe 7y agoAbsolutely true, they need organ meat too, which I was classifying as "meat". Though, point taken, unless you slaughter livestock by yourself (which we do), it's pretty much impossible to find. Even our chicken ABSOLUTELY LOVE meat and other random carcass scrap.