I was looking into feeding raw meat to my cats because that's what they naturally would eat and would like input from those who have fed or are feeding raw. Do you find that your cats are healthier? Have there been any negative effects from it?
Wild cats have all the enzymes and gut load to kill off the bad bacteria , domestics on the opther hand no longer have these... That is why your domestics will have less sucess on the raw than cooked.. Same principal with humans.. Can you eat raw chn??? About a million yrs ago you could... Amber The Bobcat gave very good info for the wild ones..Amber I will have to talk to you about the pixies since around here they are considered wildOriginally Posted by bengalbabe
I just can't figure out how come they can eat raw in the wild then....any thoughts?
Are you talking about PixieBobs or Bobcats being wild? My Pixiebobs are domestic cats, but Amber and Boris are bobcats. Yes, they are wild cats that have been tamed... Amber I will have to talk to you about the pixies since around here they are considered wild
I don't believe that man used to be "cavemen" and eat raw meat, so that idea is out the window for me.Originally Posted by sharky
Wild cats have all the enzymes and gut load to kill off the bad bacteria , domestics on the opther hand no longer have these... That is why your domestics will have less sucess on the raw than cooked.. Same principal with humans.. Can you eat raw chn??? About a million yrs ago you could... Amber The Bobcat gave very good info for the wild ones..Amber I will have to talk to you about the pixies since around here they are considered wild.
I am not speaking of caveman there are still tribes of native people who eat raw meat... As for your bengals mine does well with some raw but I dont do it often.... Since spring is here I am sure shell supplement and I will have to clean up the vomit... If you have a "foundation"f1 or f2 try what AmberTheBobcat said .. I correct the million should have been a few hundred...lol.. my badOriginally Posted by bengalbabe
I don't believe that man used to be "cavemen" and eat raw meat, so that idea is out the window for me.
Bengals are not very far away from wild blood anyway so what about them?
Wow... 1% s amazing here last I heard was close to 20%Originally Posted by Sol
Feeding cats a well balanced raw diet is great for the cats, feeding them raw food witout having enough the knowledge needes can be disastrous.
I raw feed my cats and they do really well on it and yes, they do seem healthier than before. My overweight cat started to lose fat and build muscles, my (used to be) underweight cat gained weight and is now in great shape, the youngest one have been fed homemade food since I got her and she's a very healthy young female.
I personally do not believe that out domestic cats handle raw meat less well than wild cats, I mean many of our domestic cats still go outside and catch their own food and they handle it just fine, at least the cats I grew up with.
I know many cats that have gone from dying (vets can do no more) to completely healthy when switched to an all raw diet. I don't know of any cat that haven't become healthier when raw food have been introduced to its diet, but I'm probably one of the lucky ones that only know well educated raw feeders.
Raw food have been to great benefit to my Devon Rexes. The vets have nothing but good things to say about the health of my cats and I (as well as others) have seen the change in their health. They weren't sick when fed dry food, but they weren't in optimum health either.
Note that we do not have Salmonella in Swedish meat (less than 1 % of the Swedish meat is contaminated by Salmonella and this meat never reaches the market since the meat is tested), we don't have Trichinella or Pseudorabies in our pigs, our "meat animals" are not fed antibiotics or hormones... in other words, our meat is very safe so the risk for us and/or our cats/dogs being contaminated with these diseases is close to zero.
This is not true. Cooking will destroy all the nutrients in the raw meat.Originally Posted by eburgess
I'd cook it first!!!! never feed your cat raw meat.
The Pixiebob is a domestic breed that resembles a bobcat. Legend has it that they came about from the breeding of a bobcat with a domestic cat. As domestic cats go, Pixebobs do get on the larger size, but not as large as a true bobcat.I live in the pacifis northwest and on display as a wild animal was a pixie bob.. I did look up the pixie site and saw they were domestic.. not sure if someone let a few lose and now we have a wild pop... pixie bob are about half the size of a bob cat??
You are remembering the earlier years of the Pixiebobs..when the breed was first being introduced, they were claimed to be from a cross of domestic and bobcat, that was later retracted from breed descriptions as I recall.Originally Posted by sharky
I live in the pacifis northwest and on display as a wild animal was a pixie bob.. I did look up the pixie site and saw they were domestic.. not sure if someone let a few lose and now we have a wild pop... pixie bob are about half the size of a bob cat??
Yes the Pixiebob is, I live with 4 of themThey are an exquisite breed I think