This is a record of switching my 3 male senior cats: Grover (13), Ranger (12) and Oscar (11) to rawfeeding.

Thursday, August 12, 2010

Food and such

So Grover has had loose stool, but today it was big and yellowish (like too much bone) with a little blood. I think the blood is from the size, but what bothers me more is that he pooped outside the box. The vet of course wants me to bring him in for full tests but I did that last year. Am I too spend 400 dollars a year to find out there is "nothing wrong"?

They loved the pieces of catfish. Not sure how good it is that they are eating cut up pieces of fish. Ranger is mad right now because the last two days have been quail, and he doesn't like it. I have not seen him eat today which is ground chicken. Our food came from Hare Today Gone Tomorrow. See ?


If Grover's stool is like this from too much bone then I need to think of a way to add boneless meat to just his diet because the rest of the stool in the box is fine.

Friday, July 30, 2010

July 29th

You know how it is when you are raw feeding. You become obsessed with poop. There are three different poops int he box. I have caught Grover in the act of poop which is the only reason that I know he is the one with the loose stool. It smells really bad. I am assuming that the tiny poop is Oscar because it is buried and the normal poop is not; therefore leading me to believe that is Ranger. He never buries anything.

I mixed the ground pork with canned cat food. Oscar is puking like crazy. I am moving back to mixing it with canned Salmon. That is what I mixed the chicken with.

Wednesday, July 28, 2010

Raw Feeding

After last fall when Grover got the sits on his ear, I really started thinking about the crappy kibble I was feeding the cats. later that year when I took my dogs to the vet, the vet was making fun of me for feeding the dogs raw and the cats feline McDonald's. I decided he was right. At the beginning of this summer, I started looking into switching my cats to raw. What a struggle. They complain... almost all the time... about the food. Oscar has gotten crabbier and beats up ranger more at night. Grover has loose yellow stool. Ranger has lost weight but I am not sure that is totally good. I have witnessed all of them eating but Grover is the only one that eats what I put down. Right now I am feeding ground chicken with bone and organ from Hare Today, Gone Tomorrow. I add scanned Salmon to the top and sprinkle it with cheese. All be told. I think they hate it. After watching Grover go to the litterbox today and having yellow loose stool come out, I decided that I need to go slower and record what I am doing. In the effort to not buy a new notebook, I created this blog.