Re: Old George and Raw Food

Marek Williams wrote:
> I started Old George on canned Friskies, always the Senior or Special
> Diet kinds. After reading in here about raw food, it occurred to me to
> give it a try. Turns out he loves raw chicken and raw turkey,
> especially the chicken. He also likes raw hamburger, but that's a bit
> expensive. He seems to prefer the raw food over the canned food.
>
> I can get ground raw turkey for about 98 cents a lb. I buy boneless,
> skinless chicken thighs for myself for about $1.33 a lb. The canned
> food was costing me about 30-35 cents a can, containing 5.5 ounces.
> Doing a little math, the canned food was costing me about a dollar a
> lb. In other words, the raw stuff isn't really much more expensive. 
>
> I have a couple questions --
>
> 1) If I feed him nothing but raw meat, is there anything else he needs
> in his diet? I mean, this is what he was engineered to eat, so I
> assume it has all the nutrients his furry little body needs, right?
>
> 2) Can anyone suggest other cheap meats besides chicken and turkey?
>
> 3) Considering that I watched him eat a mouse the other day, evidently
> he likes them. Anyone know if there are any butchers where they sell
> mouse? Safeway doesn't seem to carry it.
>
> --
> Bogus e-mail address, but I read this newsgroup regularly, so reply here.


I won't get into the raw diet bashing here... but this point needs to be 
raised:

Unless you have the raw diet you are providing analysed by laboratory 
just how do you know your cat is getting all the recommended minimum 
levels of nutrients as set out by AAFCO?

Those nutrients at those minimum levels are ESSENTIAL for feline life to 
exist in a healthy manner.


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