Recent Content by Charityjune

Regardless of what I feed my cats, they won't eat anywhere near 200 calories a day each, even though I budget for that. For comparison, fancy feast tends to be 80-90 calories a can, so 3 cans can be 270 calories! Of my cats, two are senior ladies, one is a 2 year old that eats quite a bit...

My Pet Carnivore states "We recommend a diet consisting of 80% meat, 10% organs, and 10% bone to approximate a whole prey diet. Our “Ground Whole” products are consistent with this model." Seems easier to deal with those products rather than hare today, which have a lot more bone than needed...

This has been super informative to me, as I'm new to raw and have done a lot of research on how to make it affordable when feeding 4 beasties. I was surprised how much people emphasized hare today when i saw their prices, but I am hopeful now that those prices (such as for rabbit) will decrease...

OH and iodine - I guess those are my two areas of concern - when buying pre ground whole carcass meat, what should i do about adding in iodine and liver? just not add either?

Oh, and lastly - the youtube videos and recipes i see assume you do the grinding - if you have frozen ground meat, how do you mix in the slurry? Do you let the whole chub thaw out and mix it in by hand? What methods do you use?

Hi, all - I'm feeding 4 cats, and starting to transition them to raw with some frozen commercial raw foods. However, I don't plan to do that long, as its much cheaper and easier on my budget to buy ground meats and add my own supplements -- I see lots of discussion of Hare Today, but haven't...