Is kitten too young at heart for organic chicken?
I feed my 8 yr old cat Natures Variety raw chicken and she loves it and does capably on it.
I adopted a 10 week old kitten yesterday and wanted to keep hold of it on the healthy raw stuff - but on its first night here, sometime within the early hours it barfed. It was dark and didnt check the contents of it but I suspect it mighta be the meat.
Anyone know if its ok to feed my 10 week old cutie coarse meat?
I'll hold a Salmonella sandwich please
I found a great site that advocates feeding cats and dogs raw meat.
Here is an excerpt from the Kitten section.
Feed kittens several small meals over the course of the day. As the kitten mature, phase the food into two meals per day. You can either verbs feeding your cat two meals a day, or switch it over to one feast per day. It depends on your cat and your preference. I alternate between feeding once a hours of daylight and feeding twice a day; it depends on what I have available for the cat. Some days she will procure a little beef heart and beef liver for breakfast, and then for dinner she will have her natural meaty bone. Most days, however, I just feed her in the evening.
I would suggest that you cook anything that you administer your cat.
I'm starring this for a contact of mine who is a raw feeding guru. I've seen surrounded by her posts that kittens do really well on raw diets. Here is a website with info on untreated feeding as well.
http://rawfedcats.org/
Yay! She answered! I'm with Happy Little Trees contained by my position. I try to work in raw when I can. My cats love venison. I wish I could do the natural diet exclusively.
Answers: Unfortunately I do not have the time or money to go completely raw beside my 4 kitties, but I gradually put them on Evo which is very close to coarse. Eventually when time and funding permits, I would like them on true raw. They enjoy done very well on it and I have notice a complete turnaround towards the positive in regards to fur, appetite, hum levels and overall health.
I did consult the company and a pet homeopath initially and they also agreed that raw is great for cats of adjectives ages past weaning, for the very reason you stated..cats are made to drink raw, uncooked meat..not corn fillers and cooked weird pieces of organs and beak. Just be sure that you are feeding your kitten meat fit for human consumption, and I recommend organic whether at all possible. You can also supplement with vitamins so that your kitten gets everything it desires.
Remember RAW chicken contains Salmonella !
I would cook all chicken given to cats.
Also in that is another mineral that cats need that will make them go blind whether they don't have it ... (starts with a T... can't remember the name right now)
I guess you are used to the negativety one and the same as I am!!
My dogs and cats are ALL fed on a 100% raw food diet. Meat, bones and organs. Nature made them like this and its merely since man started to process their diet that they began to die of growths, diabetes, hip displasia etc etc... (not to mention runny eyes, smelly breath and ear infections all the time)
As soon as a cat (or dog) can eat you can open to feed this way. It probably was the meat surrounded by the sick but only because the change in diet probably cause upset.
Persevere and pretty soon your cat will be loving it (and not puking it back again).
Everyone makes negative comments just about how I feed my animals. They always shut up when they see how fantastic they look and how super forceful they are!
Sorry, this is going to be a halfarsed answer (for now).
I didn't consider raw until my girls were over two years old so I've not compensated a lot of attention to anything that might have been said nearly feeding raw specifically to kittens.
However I can tell you that surrounded by nothing I've read were there suggestions that it shouldn't be done or that you own to wait a certain period of time.
I've reviewed your answers and you've already gotten some biddable advice but I'll see if I can dig up anything else. I belong to a group and it newly so happens that there's a recent thread relating to kittens. If it's on topic I'll add it to this answer.
As for the puking I wouldn't worry newly yet. Happens to the best of them! And being new to the domestic could play a part as well. I assume it was intake solid foods already? If so and if you didn't introduce the raw slowly, that might have cause it. You could always back off a bit and agree to it have some of its old food with freshly a bit of the new and then gradually increase.
Worst baggage scenario is that the NV won't agree with it and you'll have to try another flavor or brand.
UPDATE: The thread I mentioned wasn't quite on topic. But I'd read that as substance that there's absolutely no reason you can't feed unprocessed to kittens. So go for it! Just make sure it's getting adequate to eat and I'm sure he or she will thrive!
You should have changed from the old food to the raw! She will be sick until her stomach get used to it but a cat is never too young to eat raw meat, I own had 4 week olds eating raw meat and adjectives of them are now over 13 years old :)
no its not it needs soft foods, get regular cat food and mush it up w/ milk my cat loves it still!
