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I have two kittens who are almost 8 months old, and they've been on a mostly raw diet for about 4 months now. As a result of what I think was IBD, they had diarrhea the first three months I had them and I finally knocked that out with a raw diet and good probiotics. They really liked Rad Cat but it's so expensive that I looked to other solutions. I've ordered a variety of meats from Hare Today and it seems I could never get a meat that they both liked--if one liked a meat, the other would walk away from it. However, in the last week they've *both* been eating a lot more, so I've been feeding them more. They were underweight when I got them and getting them onto the raw has been a struggle, so when they both acting like they wanted to eat more, I gladly gave it to them.
Which leads me to ask: when do you start cutting back from kitten portions to adult cat portions? They've been finicky about raw (although it solved the diarrhea problem, which is why I stay with it) and they'd often walk away from a full plate of raw food, so I still feed them at least three times a day because that way I can feed them smaller portions at a time. If we're on a trend of them accepting the raw food more readily, I don't want to encourage overeating. I'm wondering if I should start cutting back to twice a day and trending toward adult portions?
We're trying out mutton for the first time tomorrow so, as sure as I've asked this, they'll start hunger striking again. Wish us luck!
Which leads me to ask: when do you start cutting back from kitten portions to adult cat portions? They've been finicky about raw (although it solved the diarrhea problem, which is why I stay with it) and they'd often walk away from a full plate of raw food, so I still feed them at least three times a day because that way I can feed them smaller portions at a time. If we're on a trend of them accepting the raw food more readily, I don't want to encourage overeating. I'm wondering if I should start cutting back to twice a day and trending toward adult portions?
We're trying out mutton for the first time tomorrow so, as sure as I've asked this, they'll start hunger striking again. Wish us luck!