Raw cat food, good or bad.

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Anyone feed your cat (s) raw cat food? If where do you buy it or do you make your own? If so what recipe do use use.

I recently got a rescued cat and the only information on her is that she is 2 and a half years old and belonged to an elderly lady who sadly died. I would imagine that there was not much play involved as Millie is a very laid back, or one could call it lazey so consequently she is putting on weight.

I have been doing a lot of research on cat foods and I tend not to buy the proprietary brands fom the supermarkets. I tend to use Zooplus as they have an excellent choice, keen prices, cheap delivery and reasonable customer service.

But I have come to the conclusion that raw food would be far better option than her current 50/50 wet and dry food she gets now. Better for weight control and overall health.

Any advice suggestions would be welcome.
 
Uncooked meats, likely offle I assume? My Nan used to have a cat that would only eat things like raw heart and liver. I assume it replicates a wild cats diet better?

Can you not just look for the specialist wet or dry foods for weight control? Science Plan do ranges for indoor cats and neutered cats that are lower in fat.
 
Just give it food then in 15-18 years if you are lucky, it will die. Its a cat I truly love cats but never understood the people that get fished into the marketing schemes.

Feed the cat less.
 
We used to feed our cats chopped up lamb hearts, beef mince, lamb liver and lamb kidney amount other things, they loved it. You have to get the balance right to give them the correct nutrients, there's a good website I'll see if I can find.

We only stopped this summer as we moved to dry as flies were becoming an issue, moved to wet food recently and am thinking of starting them off on meat again.

Found it cheaper than buying normal food for them, just a bit more of a faff.

Also, the meat needs freezing first to kill parasites or some such.
 
i used to feed my cat Feringa from zooplus. It has one of the highest meat contents of any car food.

Its expensive, would cost maybe £60 a month for cat food so we had to stop. Plus it stinks :p

If you just get some good dry food it will not make any difference to the cat. My cat will only eat Purina dry food. Tried lots of different but he don't touch it.


Other makes to look for: Applaws, almo.
 
utajoker said:
i used to feed my cat Feringa from zooplus. It has one of the highest meat contents of any car food.

Its expensive, would cost maybe £60 a month for cat food so we had to stop. Plus it stinks :p

If you just get some good dry food it will not make any difference to the cat. My cat will only eat Purina dry food. Tried lots of different but he don't touch it.


Other makes to look for: Applaws, almo.
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It does make a difference according to all the research I have done. dry food is not natural. The recent excellent series on cats touch on cat food and by far the healthiest cats were the farm cats who hunted for their food. Even my vet has told me reduce the amount of dried food. I am currently using Eukanuba light dry food and Hull science plan light at the moment but I feel she could eat better and her food be more beneficial.
 
I'm pretty sure the biggest factor in farm cats health is that they are active, more than simply what they eat. If you give a lazy house cat the finest diced mouse and shrew, its still going to be a fat cat.
 
We feed Applaws dry food due to it's very high protein content, but the vet described it as 'cat drugs' as they can get quite hooked on it.
Our ginger tom loves to eat, but his daily measure is tiny and he's always on the prowl for more unfortunately, so you'll have to be very strict on measures and not giving in to the blackmail!

We've always had cats in our family, and they've always survived to live long healthy lives and generally we've just fed them regular (but on the decent side) food - never have any of our cats had any UTI/Kidney problems etc due to diet.
 
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