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Cat Health & Behaviour => Health & Behaviour General => Topic started by: Mitramonday on March 08, 2009, 18:56:21 PM
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Sorry - I can't find my other post on this topic......I know some of you out there feed raw diets - I finally got the InstinctsTC through the post and got down to making the first batch. Although it took me hours to do, I believe you get quicker at it?! Then came the 'trial run'. I put a dish of the mixture down for Percy - and it was gone in an instant! You could say he's taken to it like a duck to water........or something?! :rofl:
I was SO happy :wow: that I didn't have to go thru the whole transitional stage BUT - the amount I give him just doesn't seem to satisfy him at all......his bowl is empty within a couple of minutes, and then he's immediately winding round my legs mewing for more :drool;?! The consistency of it is quite sloppy (not sure if that may have a bearing on how filling it is?). He weighs around 4kgs (8.8lbs) and I've weighed out a daily amount of 150gms (which is sort of middling for the amount that InstinctsTC suggest). He is not a majorly active cat (not that interested in the big outdoors as yet) so I don't want to overfeed him (and, tbh, don't want to incur too much UNNECESSARY cost) but am concerned not to let him 'go hungry' - I fully believe he would eat the daily amount in one sitting if I put it down! Any suggestions about how Percy and I could come to a compromise, my friends?!
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Whats their method? Could you make it into chunks so he has to chew and take his time over it
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I usually work on about 100-150g at each meal, based on two meals a day. He's prob finished it all in one go cos its something new and exciting - you need to be careful about that, when they get so excited about raw and wolf it all down quickly, it can be :sick: straight back up again!! Which is why MM's suggestion of chunking some of the meat is good - slows them down a bit, and also better for teeth. Great that he likes it though ;D
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Looks like I may be being a bit stingy with the amounts! I took InstinctsTC's suggestion perhaps a bit too literally (and was therefore dividing the 150gms into 2 meals a day).........Poor, hungry, Percy! Although he wolfs it down real quick, there's been no sign of it reappearing!! Although I'm not an expert meat carver yet :sick:, I have left some larger bits so that he would need to chew....... Ah well - I'll try upping the amount a bit in the hope he feels satisfied with that ;). Percy says ":thanks: for your support in my bid for "MORE" :evillaugh:" :rofl: !
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Although I'm not an expert meat carver yet :sick:, I have left some larger bits so that he would need to chew....... Ah well - I'll try upping the amount a bit in the hope he feels satisfied with that ;). Percy says ":thanks: for your support in my bid for "MORE" :evillaugh:" :rofl: !
LOL!
You might want to try cutting the meat with poultry shears, I find it easier than trying to cut with a knife. ;D
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I put a raw chicken wing, cut into three, into the enclosure on Saturday - I thought they might think they had 'caught' it if it was outside, but they didn't even sniff it
Sunday morning two smaller pieces had gone, and I got quite excited - until I saw the magpie returning for the third piece later that day :rofl: :rofl:
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:thanks: Gillian - I'll look out for some poultry shears..... I'm so delighted that Percy has taken to this raw diet - it feels so 'right' somehow - just hope his voracious appetite doesn't mean I have to take out a mortgage on my (rented) flat???!!
:rofl: Trigger - that's some 8) magpie u got there?! Puttin his :P at your furbabes? That's real :sneaky: - didn't know they were carnivores too???!! You didn't wrap the chicken in silver foil, did you??! :)
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Magpies are murderous little birds who will happily steal live chicks and eat them! Beautiful and intelligent but i wish they didnt raid nests :(