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I know these have probably been covered before but I'm search stupid apparently, lol.
Our dogs are fed raw and we want to switch the cat over, at least to one raw meal a day. We will be doing them 12 hours apart.
If we do one meal a day, how important is it to make sure there is enough taurine in the meal? Are there certain meats that are higher in taurine than others? It's not something that I had to research with the dogs.
If she's on one meal a day, do I need to make sure that she has a good rotation of meats in her diet, or is just sticking to one or two protein sources enough? She's had fish from sushi (not a regular practice, way too expensive, lol), chicken heart and a pinky mouse before, she seems to take to them right away, but if we put a different kind of chicken (part of a chicken breast, or something else) she just looks at it and walks away. Should I just stick to giving her the mice since she eats them whole and they have all the meat, bone and organ right there?
I doubt that we're going to switch her to full raw, simply because of convenience. She will be getting the raw meal in the morning and then kibble or wet in the evening - we have to give her a little bit of kibble just before bed to stop her running up and down the hall screaming at night. We also can't take her with us when we go out of town and there is no way that our friend that comes over to feed her would defrost raw for her.
Any other tips or suggestions for a newbie to cat raw? Feel free to post links to other threads!
Our dogs are fed raw and we want to switch the cat over, at least to one raw meal a day. We will be doing them 12 hours apart.
If we do one meal a day, how important is it to make sure there is enough taurine in the meal? Are there certain meats that are higher in taurine than others? It's not something that I had to research with the dogs.
If she's on one meal a day, do I need to make sure that she has a good rotation of meats in her diet, or is just sticking to one or two protein sources enough? She's had fish from sushi (not a regular practice, way too expensive, lol), chicken heart and a pinky mouse before, she seems to take to them right away, but if we put a different kind of chicken (part of a chicken breast, or something else) she just looks at it and walks away. Should I just stick to giving her the mice since she eats them whole and they have all the meat, bone and organ right there?
I doubt that we're going to switch her to full raw, simply because of convenience. She will be getting the raw meal in the morning and then kibble or wet in the evening - we have to give her a little bit of kibble just before bed to stop her running up and down the hall screaming at night. We also can't take her with us when we go out of town and there is no way that our friend that comes over to feed her would defrost raw for her.
Any other tips or suggestions for a newbie to cat raw? Feel free to post links to other threads!