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Old 06-06-2008, 07:20 PM
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Re: Best food for weight gain

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Originally Posted by Angeli View Post
Raw meat is good for cats and even young kittens. Start kittens off with minced meat, as long as its fresh there is no problem.

A kitten will take to feeding raw easier than an older cat introduced to it later on. My advice would be to choose raw meat with a good amount of fat in it, not lean. Muscle meat such as heart is the preferred raw meat diet.
Okay, I'll ask you this then as you feed raw I gather? Now I can tell you now there is no way I would ever feed my cats/kittens a completely raw diet, however, it would be great to be able to introduce it and keep it as part of their daily diet. But the majority of kitten families would not be happy to feed raw. So the question is............do you find that if you feed raw in the diet for the first 14 weeks etc. that when they go to new homes, if the kitten family switches over to a completely commercial diet, does this have an effect on the digestive systems?
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