I am trying to put my cats on an all natural diet.The whole body fish oil in liquid form is very tough to find. Does anyone feed their cat an all natural diet.
Leerburg is excellent for supplies like these, but I found out that my neighborhood boutique pet store (not national chain) also carries it and they were even willing to special order me the large size bottles...
My barn cats eat the same meat the dogs do. They chew it off the cow, pig, or deer carcass that I butcher, or I throw them hunks of meat and fat when I am feeding the dogs. Chicken backs are favorites for them.
I have a friend who feeds her cats raw grass-fed butter as a supplement to the raw meat.
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I'm pretty sure that the filtering process for the Grizzly product leaves it 100% safe for dogs and cats (or else I doubt they would sell it, nor would so many people love it and swear by it).
You are correct about raw salmon MEAT as posing a danger to pets though, I think it's the Pacific variety that is worst. And with people as well, any salmon meat that is intended for raw consumption should be frozen for many hours, or days (depending on the temperature of the freezer) before it is consumed, due to parasites. A search here on salmon will no doubt turn up further discussion on this.
I can't speak otherwise to feeding cats a raw diet though (aside from saying that the Grizzly salmon oil is perfectly safe) - me only has the dog.
Thanks for all the help.This is my first time feeding natural food to cats. All the other ingredients have been found. But just do want to make a mistake if possible. I will go ahead with the salmon oil.
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Quote: connie sutherland
Dogs -- not cats, not humans. (I mean for the rickettsia, or salmon poisoning, danger.)
Cats are completely safe from the danger of rickettsia - so are bears and raccoons and other woodland critters that naturally feed on wild salmon.
In regards to humans, salmon can carry anisakis (marine roundworm) larvae and tapeworms. I'm just in the middle of a book called "Sushi", so that mention was fresh in my mind. Both parasites are killed, or weakened to the point that a human's digestive tract will kill them, by cooking or freezing, which is why most restaurants - especially those that serve salmon raw - actually freeze their fish, before they serve it. Because really, nooooobody wants a tapeworm...
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Both parasites are killed, or weakened to the point that a human's digestive tract will kill them, by cooking or freezing, which is why most restaurants - especially those that serve salmon raw - actually freeze their fish, before they serve it. Because really, nooooobody wants a tapeworm... 
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