Comments on: Dear Mark: The Primal Cat Diet on the Cheap?

By: Joanne of Open Mind Requried

Joanne of Open Mind Requried — Sun, 31 May 2009 00:41:41 +0000

When I cut up whole rabbit, most of my cats are ecstatic. But Puddy won’t touch it and TipToe will eat it but then promptly throws it up on something important, like an expensive computer book or digital camera. So those two now get something else on rabbit day. And when I feed chicken, everybody but Agnes eats it up. Toby and Pinegar love oranges. Pinegar and Agnes love the base of the romaine leaf. Several cats love cucumber, Puddy goes nuts for tomatoes, and all the cats love avocado.

I don’t think you have to worry about searing the chicken. From my understanding, the acids in their stomachs kill any bacteria.

Personally, I would not feed my cats canned tuna, but they do occasionally get a can of sardines in with their raw, ground turkey.

By: Candace

Candace — Sat, 30 May 2009 22:34:37 +0000

Hmm after reading some of the comments… maybe I’ll sear the chicken first.

By: Candace

Candace — Sat, 30 May 2009 22:32:23 +0000

Great cat posts

My own two felines tend to like different things… one loves fish and the other will only touch red meat… though I will be buying some chicken soon to see how they react to it. Why didn’t I bother trying chicken before? No idea.

By: Joanne of Open Mind Required

Joanne of Open Mind Required — Thu, 14 May 2009 02:02:34 +0000

I’ve been feeding my cats raw food since 1992. They get chicken, turkey, rabbit and baby rabbit. The turkey bones are too big, so I buy turkey already ground. I buy the chicken in chunks and cut it up into smaller pieces so they can eat some of the bone. And I buy whole rabbit, which I skin myself and hack up with a cleaver. Not only do they get a great diet, but the rabbit feet offer hours of entertainment and exercise.

Taurine is in all meat but freezing tends to destroy some of it as does cooking, so the cats also get raw organ meats high in taurine: chicken livers, hearts, and gizzards and the occasional beef kidney or heart.

They used to get ground vegetables, which the vets in Oregon recommended, but here in PA the sentiment seems to be that they don’t need any veggies. However, some of my cats enjoy veggies and fruit.

Here’s a post I wrote about feeding my cats raw food.

By: Rachel

Rachel — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 20:22:59 +0000

Laura,
Did you ever think to try poussin/cornish game hen? They are much, much smaller than a regular roast chicken.

By: Big John

Big John — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 20:12:59 +0000

I don’t know about cat meat but the dog I ate in the Phillipines wasn’t bad.

By: Laura Squires

Laura Squires — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 18:16:25 +0000

I had to take my dog off the primal (raw meat) diet after she caught a serious bacterial infection from human grade raw chicken. She now eats organic cooked meat mixed with high quality pure protein kibble and some vegetables. The cats are on expensive high quality protein kibble for the same reason. All animals are healthy but it costs. Cheap cuts of human grade meat are often pretty nasty. The FDA allows a certain amount of bacteria (e coli, etc.)in such meat since it is assumed that the meat will be thoroughly cooked before consumption. Raw meat sold at pet stores for primal diets is often quite expensive. Even the chicken necks. It’s a racket I think. Also, older cats usually do not have the teeth needed to rip and crunch up meat and bones from large ‘prey’ type animals such as chickens. Too bad you can’t buy little birdie and rodent carcasses. Be careful or you could have a pretty sick animal on your hands with cheap raw meat. Older cats will often refuse to eat when their diets are changed which can cause life threatening metabolic conditions (kidneys usually). Just my experience but I don’t believe there is a cheap raw diet that is better. You get what you pay for.

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Trinkwasser — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 15:59:15 +0000

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By: Erin

Erin — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 21:09:40 +0000

My cat has no interest in “people food”. I grow wheat grass for her and give her dried food; occasionally she’ll lick the gravy out of a small can of cat food. I’ve tried giving her chicken and fish, she’s just not into anything I might eat. Yes, she is strange. I’ve seen companies that sell raw canned chicken for cats, but hadn’t thought of making it myself. Well, like I said, my cat is practically a vegetarian.

By: Mark Sisson

Mark Sisson — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 16:21:12 +0000

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