White Cat Eating Owner's Fresh Food

ats should not be forgotten in the whole fresh feeding conversation. On top of all the usual issues we find in a dry fed carnivore, dry fed cat’s suffer far a shocking amount of kidney and pancreatic disease than their raw fed counterparts. Clearly cereal based dry food is not working out for this little carnivore. If you’re wondering what do cats eat you simply have to look at what they’re eating when left to their own devices. We all know the answer to this. Birds. Mice. Little rabbits. They are cat food.

Cats can and do eat the whole prey (head to tail) as dogs will but should the prey be a bit bigger than the usual mouse then they tend to only select the best bits, that is muscle and organ meats. So feed them like dogs but ideally with more boneless meat and no vegetables (for more on how to raw feed dogs see here). In fact, the ideal cat food would be a baby bunny in a tin. Everything else is a poor substitute, most certainly the dry, cereal-based crap recommend by your vet. That food exists only to benefit a handful of shareholders your cat will never meet.

As pancreatitis, one of the most painful diseases, involves the body slowly digesting itself, this statistic is particularly alarming.
Just like in dogs, high salt, low meat, low protein, high carbohydrate, high cereal and chemical riddled products are effectively poison to carnivores. When the actual per kilo cost of cat food (smaller packets make way more money) is factored in, it is clear that cat owners would be far better off picking up some fresh pacific salmon from the supermarket shelf. Which do you think they’d prefer?

Making them prefer it is a different thing! On that note here’s what we have picked up over the years, but being non-cat owner’s and knowing that there’s a fair few folk here raw feeding their cats, we would really appreciate any and all tips and thoughts, so we can add them to the below!