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http://www.alt4animals.com/nutrition_feline.htm


The Feline Raw Meat Diet

This is really what I’d like to see all cats eating. Dry food is convenient but is actually a far cry from what the cat is calling out for evolutionarily. We really have an obligate carnivore in a small body in the cat, one who wouldn’t eat dry food, cooked food, nor corn. (This ingredient is prevalent in dry foods to get them to stick together). I think part of the reason we are seeing more cats with diabetes of late is the feeding of dry food that has corn or corn gluten meal in it. [Another reason may be the increased use of vaccines (see Vaccinations: Safety)]. This small hunter would eat one main food: prey. This diet comes closer to that natural food than any dry food, even a healthy one, ever could.

This is a very simple way to feed your cat a balanced, raw diet. The most difficult ones to convince of this will be those cats over the age of 8-10 years, who’ve eaten only commercial dry or canned foods. They may take one look at your lovely raw food in the dish and give it the ultimate feline insult: burial! Nonetheless, it’s worth the effort to get any cats you really care about to eat it. They will clearly improve their health and longevity by doing so.



Making the Change

There are two ways to make the switch to this diet: fasting and gradual transition.

Fasting
This is only for those cats who are not overweight. How to know? If your cat has a fat pad in the groin area, or an ill-defined waist, or looks pear-shaped from above, there’s weight above the healthy norm. They can transition with the next method. For those who are normal weighted, this is the best way to switch to new, raw food. Why? There are several benefits from your cat’s fasting for a few days:

He or she will get a chance to cleanse the toxins built up over the years of eating the old foods.
The digestive system gets a chance to rest and rejuvenate. This system is one of the hardest working in the body.
Your cat will develop something often lacking in cats today, but so important for proper digestion: hunger. (See The B+ Plan for Cats for more details)
This last benefit also leads to an increased acceptance of something new! Finickiness becomes a distant memory when hunger is there. “Oh, something new and different? I’ll take it, thanks!”
To fast your cat, simply decrease the quantity of food by half for a couple of days, and then offer only broth and water for a few more days. If the pestering for food becomes difficult, love your cat in other ways -- get the string toy out, have lots of affection sessions, go for walks in the woods, and close doors when you need to sleep! (See below about "gamblers" if you begin to lose heart). When you break the fast, offer small meals of the new food at first, and, after a few of these, offer all your cat wants to eat at a sitting. There may be a brief period of overeating, but this won’t last.

Cats will rarely overeat on this diet, and will tend to normalize their weight, whether too heavy or too thin at the outset.

Gradual Transition
This method, while not as deeply beneficial as fasting, will still get some cats on to the new, raw diet. In this method, you simply start adding the new food in small quantities to the existing food, and gradually increase the proportions until it’s 100% new food, and no old food. This can happen as quickly as 5-7 days, but you may run into to a battle line when you come to a certain percentage of the raw food in a fussy cat’s dish. Hold tight! You can fall back to the fasting method if you reach this point of refusal, and break the fast with nothing but the new food, as outlined above.

Points to Consider in Feeding
We can do a good job of feeding raw food to cats if we keep a couple of simple points in mind:

Cats would eat not just meat in the wild. They eat the “whole mouse.” Or, raw meat is, by itself, not complete food.
The rawness is extremely valuable to the cat, as evidenced by Dr. Pottenger’s work on hundreds of cats in the 1930’s. See The Missing Ingredient.
The raw meat can contain food-borne bacteria possibly harmful to humans, especially immune-compromised humans. So careful sanitary practices in handling it apply. This is not an issue for the cat, whose digestive system is unchanged from the wild ancestors, and “knows” how to digest bacteria. See Food Safety and Raw Meat for more details.
Cats are gamblers. If they are rewarded for a behavior once in twenty times, they will repeat the behavior. That means you have to be consistent in offering your food choices which you know to be best, and not give in to the call for dry crunchy food. While making the transition to a raw diet takes time and patience, the greater your commitment and consistency, the smoother and faster it will go.