Raw diet, cont'd.

Well, my cats really warmed up to the raw food. I think the reason they didn't want to eat it right away when I first put it down was because I forgot to warm it up to "mouse body temperature" as instructed. But I came back a few hours later and it was gone. They say it's fine to leave it out.

So, I started out mixing a little in with their wet food but I noticed they were trying to pick the raw food out of the wet food, so I have gone to 50/50 and even given them all raw and they eat it up. They don't all eat it all at once, but it's always gone by the next mealtime. I think they are so used to free-feeding off dry that they want to do that with their raw food also. The company assures me that cats can tell if something has gone "bad" and I don't need to worry about salmonella because they test their product regularly.

I'm really digging it so far but it is a little messy. It doesn't smell at all and it's very well liquefied so it's not difficult to work with, it's just that I put it into little baggies so I could only take out and thaw what I needed for a few days, and getting it all out of the bag is kind of impossible. I think I'm just going to thaw out the whole 2.5 lb. container of chicken and just scoop it out as I use it. I am supposed to float a bag of it in hot water because you are definitely NOT supposed to microwave it at all to heat it up. My cats seem not to mind it so much cold anymore but anyway...I'll have to devise a new method.

We need to order some more but with the move, I guess I will wait until the last minute so I can be sure we're up there when it is delivered. It ain't cheap, so I need it to not be all spoiled by the time I get it.

Changes so far:

• I have noticed that my cats are less hungry and don't bother us to feed them as much, which leads me to believe they are more satisfied.

• They seem to poop less

• The poop doesn't stink nearly as much

• I think BK has lost weight, but I can't tell for sure, and it might not be from the food anyway.

So, we're gonna take Black Kitty in for a glucose curve when we get settled and see how his blood sugar is doing and stuff. We'll be monitoring it more closely with the new food. I'm going to try to monitor their weights as well.

So, that's all I have to say about that atm.