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Originally Posted by dandysmom
Andrew, I never thought about raw fish. How do you feed it to them....skin and de-bone it first?
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Nope leave the skin on and the bones it. My lot won't eat the heads though.
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Originally Posted by mattde
legs and carcass , wow make sure you keep them well feed as they might just come after you next.
Thats a good selection of food , how does it work out cost wise?
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Costs me about 20p per cat per day.
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Originally Posted by Elaine
Dont forget the organ meat, they need that for the taurine.
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Popular mis-conception Taurine is in high abundance in muscle meat, especially heart (classed as muscle for feeding) and in lower quantities in Organ meat. Organ meat is needed for other essential vitamins and minerals especially vit B12
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Originally Posted by mattde
Some liver / kidney maybe
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They get between 5 and 10% organ, liver, kidney, spleen etc.
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Originally Posted by Elaine
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There are risks to feeding a raw food diet too, I am still uncertain in which direction to go with this to be honest.
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There are risks in all types of food. Hundreds of cats and dogs died and potencially thousands were made ill by pet food contamination in the US 2 yars ago. The same contamination was in chinese baby milk. Someone tryig to make more money by artificially increasing the protein levels in petfood ingredients with melamine.
If you use basic food hygine methods there is little or no risk. There is as much risk of your cat / dog contracting salmonella from dry food as there is from a raw diet.
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Originally Posted by smudgley
Neospora is thought to be mainly caught through raw meat, however I've seen puppies with it that have never had any meat, nor their dam has had any meat.
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Proper term is Neospora caninum and it affects dogs and cattle (from my basic knowledge of animal nutrition cows don't eat meat) the general concensus is that this like the cat version Toxoplasmosis (similar parasites) are passed on through feces.