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Ok. *deep breath* I'm doing it! I'm going to start feeding my beloved furbabies a raw diet. For now, it'll just be in the evenings but at some point, when we are all comfortable with the raw food model, I expect to go 100% raw. If I can pull all the pieces together, I'll be using the whole prey diet.
I'm a little nervous, but I'm so completely convinced that it's the right thing to do for them that I can't justify keeping them on a commercial diet any longer, even if it is a canned, nearly 100% grain-free diet.
So, from everything I've read, I need to take it fairly slow. I'm going to go out this weekend and purchase chicken, quail, turkey and maybe duck meat parts, then chop them up into bite size pieces and offer them as a regular part of the evening meal. Eventually, I make those pieces bigger and add in pieces of organs and then pieces of meat with little bitty bones and then bigger bone-in pieces and then VOILA!, I should have them right where I want them. *grin*
One of my brothers-in-law is a chef and he said he'll be happy to give me all the organ meats they routinely throw away. I didn't talk to him long enough to know how frequent he serves those kinds of meals, but he cooks for a really large number of folks, so it should be a fairly good quantity each time.
*rubs hands together* This is going to be interesting!
Any suggestions, advice, or tips you raw-food experienced folk think might be helpful is greatly appreciated. At this point, I'm most interested in how/where you purchase what you need, how often you feed what parts of the prey, and how you made the transition for your cats.
Thanks!!!!!!!
I'm a little nervous, but I'm so completely convinced that it's the right thing to do for them that I can't justify keeping them on a commercial diet any longer, even if it is a canned, nearly 100% grain-free diet.
So, from everything I've read, I need to take it fairly slow. I'm going to go out this weekend and purchase chicken, quail, turkey and maybe duck meat parts, then chop them up into bite size pieces and offer them as a regular part of the evening meal. Eventually, I make those pieces bigger and add in pieces of organs and then pieces of meat with little bitty bones and then bigger bone-in pieces and then VOILA!, I should have them right where I want them. *grin*
One of my brothers-in-law is a chef and he said he'll be happy to give me all the organ meats they routinely throw away. I didn't talk to him long enough to know how frequent he serves those kinds of meals, but he cooks for a really large number of folks, so it should be a fairly good quantity each time.
*rubs hands together* This is going to be interesting!
Any suggestions, advice, or tips you raw-food experienced folk think might be helpful is greatly appreciated. At this point, I'm most interested in how/where you purchase what you need, how often you feed what parts of the prey, and how you made the transition for your cats.
Thanks!!!!!!!