Katie, with cats, it can just take a long time and a lot of persistence.
If you get some of the food she's used to eating, and start with something ground, just a little bit smeared on the food she's used to, you can gradually increase the amount of ground. Once she's used to eating ground raw, you can start adding in little slivers of whole raw...
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Thanks Leih.
Is it okay to feed kibble and bone? The only ground I have right now is ground necks.
I'm just confused because she's been eating raw chicken breast and beef pieces (that are reasonably sized) for two weeks now and she loves them. I'll do some mixing off foods to see what I can get her to eat.
Our cats seem like their own self-caught raw the best - perhaps you should get a mouse or a chipmunk and turn it loose in your house so she can get her own dinner.
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Quote: Mara Jessup
Our cats seem like their own self-caught raw the best - perhaps you should get a mouse or a chipmunk and turn it loose in your house so she can get her own dinner.
I was waiting for someone to suggest that, as a kid we fed the cat bagocrap cat food but it was weekly that some mouse,mole or squirrel met its demise
I don't like to mix raw and kibble, especially since cats have such sensitive systems. (or at least mine do)
Can you mix a little bit of the canned into her dry food for the next couple of days, gradually increasing the canned and lowering the amount of kibble?
Then you could start adding in some raw with the canned.
Mine won't eat the EVO canned either but they love wellness core canned
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She does eat mice. I thought about buying some feeder mice but I don't want to stock up on all this food she'll never eat. I'm going to try a few things. She only had a little bit of kibble this morning.
My dog, on the other hand, hasn't had anything today.
They've both been eating raw beautifully, and now they're being brats. At least Dolly is. She ate this food yesterday!
Unlike dogs, who can go for a few days without food with no negative results, it's not quite the same with cats. I forget which organ system gets affected so quickly, but they can get into danger, health-wise, very fast, from not eating regular meals.
I'm glad it worked for you without negative results, but this is why most people who are switching cats to raw get really creative about disguising the food, or otherwise making it very enticing.
Allowing a cat to go without food - especially an overweight cat - for a long period of time (greater than 48 hours) can be quite dangerous and may result in hepatic lipidosis (fatty liver disease).
Hepatic lipidosis can also develop when a cat consumes 50% or less of his daily caloric requirements over a period of many days.
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Thanks Cathi!
I just picked up some chicken breast from the store. I definitely won't let her go without eating, I remember reading that long before I even made the switch with my dogs.
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