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This is a dedicated place for all of your questions and answers about Raw Diets. There are also some really cool groups like "Raw Fed" on the topic you can join. This forum is for people who already know they like the Raw dieting or sincerely want to learn more. It's certainly not a place to argue about it Also, please remember that you are receiving advice from peers and not professionals... if you have specific health-related question about your cat's diet, please contact your vet!
I'm still in the middle of transitioning my 4 from dry to wet in order to go to raw....and am still in the wet stage. Actually, we're in the constipated stage. They're constipated and I feel totally awful.
I went to the store today to buy canned pumpkin in hopes that would relieve them....and after buying a can, I found myself in the meat section.
Next thing I knew, I'd also bought raw pork, raw chicken heart and raw chicken liver. (I've tried serving raw chicken breast but nobody would eat it.)
I put a bit of liver (I know this is good for constipation, too) and some raw pork down. Everyone sniffed (good sign...?), and then Mooch ate two small pieces of raw pork! But nobody else ate any, and Mooch wouldn't eat any more than those two tiny pieces.
Sorry, I'm just excited that Mooch ate a little.
My question, since I'm totally new to this, how should I be freezing all the leftovers? I know they won't be eating a ton at a sitting, but how do I freeze it in tiny portions without using ten rolls of saran wrap?
Thought I'd tell you what I did, knowing how everyone must be so curious to know.
1) Put out a looooong strip of saran wrap
2) Cut up the heart and liver and pork into teeny chunks
3) Place the teeny chunks like little pieces of candy drops dispersed evenly onto the big sheet of saran wrap
4) Begin carefully cutting the saran wrap into small squares, making the pieces of meat and organs roll from side to side and fall off in a bloody, goopy mess
5) Notice that the saran wrap is tearing in places you don't want it to while you're cutting
6) Become concerned about bacteria from the raw getting all over your dining table and begin to wash things obsessively
7) Midway through, wonder why on earth did you even do this?
8) Put what you can salvage into clean zip-lock bags, mark what's in them, and put them neatly into your fridge for easy garbage tossing a few months from now
9) Desperately try to get the guts smell out from under your fingernails
We portion it out into tupperware containers (the cheapy ziploc or noname brands ect) I use plastic bags sometimes...but I HATE throwing unneccessary plastic into the environment so my pet food ziploc baggies get reused and reused.
Once a month my husband and do our pet shopping and then sort of portion it out cut up big things and make each contaner have a variety of meat in it. We have started keeping the cats food seperate from the dogs. But each container holds about 3 days worth of food, so I take out a frozen container BEFORE I run out of the one thawed in the fridge!
Hope that helps
Your description made me laugh...the worst smell to me is pork liver and it leaves a nasty coating on everything, the knives, scissors, cutting board, plastic container and HANDS YUCKYYYY
Your photo makes me laugh every time I see it. What a great pose!
When you say you portion everything out...do you mean that you have various meats and organs in the same Tupperware? And that there are several pieces together not individually wrapped? I guess if you are defrosting the whole Tupperware that it won't be an issue of needing to take out only a few pieces to thaw.
And may I ask about what size is a serving of liver? I tried to imagine what a mouse liver might be the size of but.......oh man, that's a ton of cutting!
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Also, please remember that you are receiving advice from peers and not professionals... if you have specific health-related question about your cat's diet, please contact your vet!
They're constipated and I feel totally awful.
and it leaves a nasty coating on everything, the knives, scissors, cutting board, plastic container and HANDS YUCKYYYY