A New "Raw"some Beginning... (yup - another one LOL)

klag · Mar 26, 2012

Wow! Great stuff! Congrats!!

I will pick some Radcat lamb up too! 3 of my 4 cats also like the Radcat raw turkey without any tricks. Amazing!

That leads me to a question about Radcat (sorry to spoil the party with questions!

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Do we need to add anything to the Radcat food such as probiotics and enzymes or is that only needed for making your own at home?

mrsgreenjeens · Mar 26, 2012

Lauren, so happy for you. Sorry I wasn't on long enough yesterday to read your wonderful posts about being at 100% for the 3 PIA's (company, remember?) But, very exciting stuff happening at your house, to be sure! Keep up the great work. Hey, so what if you are having to use the Fortiflora right now. You won't have to forever. And hopefully by now that delivery truck has arrived with reinforcements.

feralvr · Mar 26, 2012

Carmina Piranha said:
OK, so HOW do we get a Rad Cat distributor in Chicago?

Carolina, it was so kind of you to get this shipment together--and to make sure she got some RC lamb! What a great group of people I found on this forum.

Actually :lol3: I AM trying to get distribution to Chicago

!!!! I have talked with a couple of the "bigger" natural stores and they are in contact with Tracy (Rad Cat) in trying to find a distributor. :cross: So who knows.... I am going to call them again and tell them how much my cat's just love the RC and how fast they took to it and how I think it fly out of their freezer's.... Just incredible meat. :clap:

and.... yes - Carolina (who I am just SO grateful for her being a RC Lamb pusher :rofl

and all the other's here are GREAT PEOPLE. We are glad you found us too :hugs:

We are like one big Happy Raw Family - fighting for the exact same goal. Great to have the support and a place to come to vent :hi:, cry :bawling:

, laugh :lol3:, rant and rave :stomp:, bang our heads on walls :frusty:, and jump for joy :jump:

over the successes!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I don't know what I would do without these people :heart3: :lol2:

feralvr · Mar 26, 2012

klag said:
Wow! Great stuff! Congrats!!

I will pick some Radcat lamb up too! 3 of my 4 cats also like the Radcat raw turkey without any tricks. Amazing!

That leads me to a question about Radcat (sorry to spoil the party with questions! )

Do we need to add anything to the Radcat food such as probiotics and enzymes or is that only needed for making your own at home?

Thanks

!!!!!!! Questions are never a party spoiler..... heck - sometimes they get the party started :lol2:

I use this one everyday - 1/8 tsp. twice daily. Started the first day I started introducing raw. We all think it is very beneficial in many ways to get them started on a probiotic/enzyme supplement. I am not sure how long to use it. I think it is safe to use everyday :nod: It really helped my cat's in the beginning to settle tummies in preparation for the raw meal. I love this one http://www.animalessentials.com/#products:63 This is another popular one http://www.doggiefood.com/prozymedigestiveaid.html You can easily find these at the natural pet food stores. OR on Amazon. :clap:

feralvr · Mar 26, 2012

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Lauren, so happy for you. Sorry I wasn't on long enough yesterday to read your wonderful posts about being at 100% for the 3 PIA's (company, remember?) But, very exciting stuff happening at your house, to be sure! Keep up the great work. Hey, so what if you are having to use the Fortiflora right now. You won't have to forever. And hopefully by now that delivery truck has arrived with reinforcements. :cross:

AWWW thank you, sweetie :hugs:

.... YEP - I am out of Fortiflora. The delivery is not till mid to late week. SO :lol3: I tried the Bonito Flakes :clap:

The only cat's that need a topper are: Perkins (sometimes) Perla and Presley (always) The Bonito Flakes worked great for Perkins. For Presley, nope... He does not like WL or Bonito Flakes

OH WELL he did eat - from momma's hand :rub: Perla loves WL :nod: so that will work for her.

feralvr · Mar 27, 2012

WELL looks like Fegnion Rabbit might be another good one

- last night for dinner I offered some Fegnion Rabbit !!!!!! It was well taken by the three fussies. Fussy #4 said NO - Pipsqueak :lol3: The other three ate about 1/2 ounce of the rabbit mixed with canned. :clap:

This morning.... well..... not too great on the RC Lamb at 100%. Can't expect everyday to be a PERFECT RAW PARTY!!!!! :lol2:

Perla just was not hungry so she left. :walk:

Perkins ate his with WL and some FF Fish/Shrimp mixed in - just a touch. Presley ate his with the added FF mixed in.... from my hand :lol2:

I am out of Fortiflora - delivery by Monday

SO we will make do with what topper's I have on hand. Unfortunately, they still need some form of a topper - even on the 100% RC Lamb. BUT once they get eating - they usually will finish

As I said in Laurie's thread - I think the fussies might always be a little fussy at times and be much more work to get them to eat full raw meals ALL the time. I have RC Turkey defrosting :woohoo:

Can't wait to try that one :cross: :bigwink:

Pipsqueak had his 100% raw meal again :wow:

... but I am going to have to get him eating something else. Can't keep him on NVO and NM chicken forever. I am trying the Fegnion Rabbit with him. He liked it at first and of course when I want him to eat it - he refuses. :sigh:

SO the PsIMA might still be that way from time to time :flail:

feralvr · Mar 28, 2012

After yesterday's let down :shame: TODAY WAS RAWSOME!!!!!!!! :clap:

100% RC LAMB after yesterday's refusal. AND NO FORTIFLORA :thud:

only because I don't have any. :lol3: The three P's had 1/1/2 ounce of the Lamb with WL as a topper. :woohoo:

Presley needed to be hand fed :rolleyes2:

He just looks at his bowl :shocked:

then I put it on my fingers and he goes to town. Go figure.... :scratch: Same food, same smell that is in his bowl - but must taste better on momma's finger :bigmouth: Guess he wants a little extra TLC from momma. Pipsqueak had 2 ounces of NM Chicken :wow:

Walden and Wendall - my dear angels - had 1 1/2 ounce of NM Chicken today. I keep them on lots of rotation and they love that.

Have RC TURKEY dethawing for tomorrow morning's introduction and presentation. Hope it is well liked as much as the Lamb :cross: :cross: :cross: COME ON PIPSQUEAK.... there is more to life than NVO and NM Chicken :winkblue:

ldg · Mar 29, 2012

:lol3: Oh these kitties could send us straight to the looney bin! Seriously - Presley loves raw, but only if hand fed. One day they love something, the next day they don't want it. :jump:

What I don't have is someone to eat up all this NM taking up all this room in my fridge!

SOME DAY Pipsqueak will discover there's more to life than NVO and NM chicken! :nod: :cross:

mrsgreenjeens · Mar 29, 2012

LDG said:
What I don't have is someone to eat up all this NM taking up all this room in my fridge!

You mean your ferals won't even eat it?

feralvr · Mar 29, 2012

LDG said:
SOME DAY Pipsqueak will discover there's more to life than NVO and NM chicken! :nod: :cross:

PIPSQUEAK LOVES RAD CAT TURKEY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :wow:

I am seriously cracking up today - just out of the pure joy of it. I can't believe it. I was fixing meals this morning - introduction of the RC Turkey. Pipsqueak was on the counter tearing at the ziploc bag. SO I thought, well, why not :think:

. Let's see if you will eat this right off a china :lol3: plate. OMG he devoured one ounce completely in record time flat :shocker:. I was stunned so I offered him another ounce. He ate that too :woohoo:

Then, I was hoping he didn't :nausea: :barf:

and he did NOT!!!!!! :jump:

GET THIS THOUGH .... the other three PsIMA don't like the RC Turkey. ( I need my Fortiflora for this one :lol3

Seems that if Pipsqueak likes something, the other three hate it. IF the other three like something, Pipsqueak hates it. :crackup:

Of course, Walden and Wendall love anything!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

SO..... "As the Raw Meat Turns"....... Everyday :sun: brings an entirely new and different surprise :high5: Sometimes a good one and sometimes a real bad surprise :flail:

Today was a GOOD ONE!!!!!!!!!!!! :bigthumb:

carolina · Mar 29, 2012

Yeyyeye Pips! You are the last standing PIA ! You fought a great fight, but I am afraid you lost the battle buddy :flail:

I bet he will love the chicken too...... And I also bet they the others will come to love the turkey in due time. i have a feeling that pips will be turkey and chicken, the other pias lamb and Turkey and the 2 Ws whatever is on the plate.....
Oh! I found a Styrofoam box at CVS that might be good to ship your stuff! This weekend I will look at walmart and biglots- you might not need to wait! :clap:

Anyways......gotta sleep now..... Some post-op kiddos to love on :heart3:

carmina piranha · Mar 30, 2012

PIP, PIP, HOORAYYY!!!!

Pip, Pip, Tur-KAYYYYY?

(Maybe someday it'll be "Pip, Pip, whole-PREY!"

)

feralvr · Mar 30, 2012

Carolina said:
Yeyyeye Pips! You are the last standing PIA ! You fought a great fight, but I am afraid you lost the battle buddy
I bet he will love the chicken too...... And I also bet they the others will come to love the turkey in due time. i have a feeling that pips will be turkey and chicken, the other pias lamb and Turkey and the 2 Ws whatever is on the plate.....
Oh! I found a Styrofoam box at CVS that might be good to ship your stuff! This weekend I will look at walmart and biglots- you might not need to wait!
Anyways......gotta sleep now..... Some post-op kiddos to love on :heart3:

GREAT on the styrofoam box :woohoo:

I will say though, that of all the meat you sent me, the Rad Cat and the Fegnion (the product in the plastic containers) were pretty rock solid :bigthumb: SO I don't think we will have to :sweat:

the next go round

For those babies and their sore little mouths :sniffle:

:rub: :whitecate: :rub: :whitecat:

:rub:

feralvr · Mar 30, 2012

Carmina Piranha said:
PIP, PIP, HOORAYYY!!!! :high5:

Pip, Pip, Tur-KAYYYYY?

(Maybe someday it'll be "Pip, Pip, whole-PREY!" :lol3: )

OMG

PIP PIP WHOLEPREY!!!!!!!!!!!!! That is a GOOD ONE!!!!!!!!!!!! Well..... the Pipster will not even smell fresh raw chicken..... yet. He just looks at it and turns his head :lol3: So it may be a VVVVEEERRRYYY long time before we get to FP.

feralvr · Mar 30, 2012

It is OFFICIAL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :stomp: Perla is on a raw boycott :wife:..... Yesterday and today.... UNTIL .......... that's right........... the.............. FORTIFLORA arrived. Momma's ammo :flail:

So she had Rad Cat Turkey tonight HEE HEE. Man - she is STILL a major PiMA and probably always will be. I hate the fact that she will get this fussy and only eat the meat with the Fortiflora on it. WL didn't work for the late meals yesterday or this morning. I also really worry about feeding her so much fish... meaning mixing the raw meat with the stinky fish food to get her to eat the raw meat. I wonder IF I am going to cause her more harm than good :dk: :scratch: So it is either Fortiflora OR fishy smelling canned foods. Which is the better of the two evils??????? :hmm: This just gets so frustrating with this little

rincess: PiMA :lol3: BUT MAN IS SHE CUTE!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :heart2: :rub:

Everyone else is doing really great. The other three P's had RC Turkey today. Pipsqueak 100% again :woohoo:

Perkins/Presley needed it mixed with stinky food but ate it. Walden/Wendall, of course, cleaned their plates. MY Goodness...... YES........ those two boys coats are just incredibly beautiful. Smooth and shiny as glass. Perkins is catching up too. An ORANGE

umpkin: :lol3: glow now..... :love: :love:

feralvr · Mar 31, 2012

PLEASE

rincess: PERLA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! You are killing me here!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :smshfrk: This morning was RC Lamb. SHE loved it a week ago. NOPE, not any more. Do you know it took almost a WHOLE packet of Fortiflora to get her to finish. And even then, she :dash: off. I can't keep giving her Fortiflora to get her to eat raw meat again. :scratch: OR tuna :scratch: I just ordered some more topping's :flail:

from Amazon. Some Salmon FD from Halo :cross: Some chicken liver :cross: She ended up eating kibbles this morning. After feeding all of the pet's, she was looking for food. Offered her more raw.... some canned num nums. NOPE - she shunned me. She wanted her EVO kibbles. FINE - you have to eat. Here you go

rincess:

She ate 1/4 cup. She was hungry. Will have to go back to S&C FD with her again and try to mix in the RC that way. She is just refusing all raw right now :sigh:

ldg · Mar 31, 2012

I just thank goodness that when Spooky refuses to eat raw, she'll still eat the canned. :nod: The BFF gets her eating small slices of some things, sometimes :lol3: but... Since she's also on a B.G. boycott, she just gets Instinct or Wellness canned.

I'm also lucky, because she eats her 2oz of NV rabbit or HT pork every morning. So I guess she's only a partial PIA.

Maybe you just can't feed Perla the same thing for more than a few days in a row? :dk: Perhaps better just canned for a day or two, and the raw she will eat rotated with canned? :dk:

feralvr · Apr 1, 2012

LDG said:
I just thank goodness that when Spooky refuses to eat raw, she'll still eat the canned. :nod: The BFF gets her eating small slices of some things, sometimes :lol3: but... Since she's also on a B.G. boycott, she just gets Instinct or Wellness canned. I'm also lucky, because she eats her 2oz of NV rabbit or HT pork every morning. So I guess she's only a partial PIA.
Maybe you just can't feed Perla the same thing for more than a few days in a row? :dk: Perhaps better just canned for a day or two, and the raw she will eat rotated with canned? :dk:

WOW - yeah your Spooky is better than Perla. I will take the "partial" PIA anyday. With the

rincess: Perla - everyday is different :lol3: It's a crap shoot :seesaw:

!!!!! I was thinking the same thing - offering a day of canned and then a day of raw. I just cannot keep using Fortiflora for her :nono:

The WL doesn't work. In fact this morning, I offered the Rad Cat Turkey. Mixed Perla's with Fussy Cat. She needed a bit of Fortiflora to even finish that. It had 1 ounce of RC Turkey though and she did finish with the help of Fortiflora. I am thinking she is not feeling too well either, with her eye and all :sniffle:

She loves the S&C FD rehydrated raw though.

Tomorrow is the intro of Rad Cat Chicken :jump:

I am excited. I hope Pipsqueak likes that one too. Maybe even Perla :dk: YEAH RIGHT!!!!!!! :flail:

BUT WE CAN HOPE :cross: :cross: :vibes:

ldg · Apr 1, 2012

Heads or tails? :flail:

( :anon: Sorry! ). Aw, the

rincess: !!!!!!!!!!!!! I hope she feels better soon!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :vibes:

feralvr · Apr 2, 2012

LDG said:
Heads or tails? ( :anon: Sorry! ). Aw, the rincess: !!!!!!!!!!!!! I hope she feels better soon!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

WELL did you guess heads or tails????? She ate it - :lol3: but not without the garbage toppings.

Introduced the Rad Cat Chicken this morning

!!!!!!!!!!!! Not as well liked as the Turkey or the Lamb. Pipsqueak did eat about 1/2 ounce and then left the rest. So not a favorite - the chicken. I needed to use a bit of BFF and some Fortiflora for Perla to finish - but she did eat a good breakfast :sweat:

She likes to keep me sweating over her meals :lol3: Perkins and Presley didn't finish their complete meal of RC Chicken but did eat it

. Upstairs they all had more raw on china this morning. :lol3: NVO Chicken is still a favorite here. I am out of NM Chicken and will be placing an order today. Wilbur loves the FD beef chunks from NM that we received as a freebie on the last order, so will order some of that too this time.

Walden and Wendall had RC Chicken this morning too. Of course, they licked their plates clean

:rub: :heart2: OH LORDY..... How I WISH the other's were as good at eating the raw meat. I am still offering at dinner each day - strips of fresh organic raw chicken breast or thigh. Walden, Wendall and Perkins love the raw chicken strips. Pipsqueak, Presley and Perla..... nope. I am hoping with the new topping's I have coming that I will be able to get those other three eating some raw chicken. Those three just don't understand the feel of the raw meat in their mouths and spit it out. :lol3: It is almost like they think I have served them "rubber" pieces or something. I really get a laugh at watching those three try to eat raw chicken. :lol2:

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