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    Cat's Skin Ripples And He Jumps And Licks Himself After Eating Treats!

    Hi, I live in Sweden and have a 2 year old cat, Loki, who exhibits these strange behaviors after eating treats. He eats a diet of mostly raw food, but he is very picky and I have to feed him a small amount of canned food in the morning. During the winter I used to feed Loki an egg yolk every...
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    Picky Eater (I need suggestions!)

    Yeah I think you're right. I'm hoping the problem will fix itself when we get our own place, since he won't have the temptation of another food source anymore! I don't rotate proteins, in Sweden I'm lucky I can get chicken thighs. I can get stuff like pork and beef but the little one doesn't...
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    Picky Eater (I need suggestions!)

    I have a picky eater. He's about 1.5 years old, I hand raised him from 1 week after we found him in a shed and started feeding him raw food (no bone, with supplements - bone in meat is hard to come by in Sweden) when he was about 6-8 weeks old.  He gets 40g in the morning, 45 in the afternoon...
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    Planning ahead for new kitten

    Sorry about your loss. I know how heartbreaking it can be. :( As for a new kitten, can you not just leave the kitten in a different room if she gets too rambunctious with your dog? Or perhaps adopt a slightly older kitten, one who has already been fixed and calmed down a bit. If you adopt one...
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    My cat is a little bi-polar? Also has a weird grass eating addiction :S

    I don't give him what he wants when he bites, I tell him no and usually remove him from the area, either to the chair or to the floor. The feeding suggestions for raw feeding an overweight cat is to feed them how much they would eat at their healthy weight. I feed him portions for a 10lb cat, he...
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    My cat is a little bi-polar? Also has a weird grass eating addiction :S

    I have an indoor cat, a 7 year old snowshoe named Coco who is a bit overweight. I take my cats outside for supervised walks (they get Frontline and the yard is completely fenced) and the cat in question always eats grass. Every time, if I bring him outside 3 or 4 times in one day each time he...
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    Kitten gets "aroused" by blanket?

    I've had a few male cats in my family and I've never seen this behavior before. My kitten is male, about 4 months old. Sometimes he randomly grabs a blanket on the couch in his mouth and starts purring and kneading it. He stands over the blanket (stradling it basically) but he doesn't hump it...
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    Raw feeding, how much is enough?

    The food does say complete and seems to be complete upon reviewing the ingredients. I feed it now to the kitten between his first and second raw meal and again between the second and third meal!
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    Raw feeding, how much is enough?

    Would it be alright to supplement the kittens diet with a good quality complete kitten moist food? I found one that is 70% chicken and seems to have the proper vitamins and what not that are needed. It's just the bags of food I prepared of raw were specifically portioned out so 1 bag is a whole...
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    Raw feeding, how much is enough?

    Hi there! I've been raw feeding my 6 year old cat for a few months now. He's a bit overweight, but he's already lost about a pound which is pretty nice I think! I read on different sites to feed the cats based on the healthy weight you're aiming at for them. I started out feeding him 205g a day...
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    How young do I start my new kitten?

    I was told by a friend to start weaning at 4 weeks, but I think because my kitten is a single orphan he learns a little slower! I am feeding him KMR now in a dish, he won't bottle feed anymore, he just flails around and scratches my hands while grabbing the bottle if I try to offer a bottle now...
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    How young do I start my new kitten?

    I've been raising an orphan kitten from 1 week (he's about 5 weeks now). I was wondering how early do you start feeding raw to kittens? So far my kitten won't even eat a complete kitten moist food from a can, he's still taking Kitten Milk Replacer for all his meals. He laps it up from a bowl now...
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