One of the reasons I have always fed either totally raw or mainly raw (one of my cats thinks he's not been fed unless theres a bit of biscuit in it, he's an oriental cross and so he yowls until he's got a few biscuits ontop) is when I was younger our JR had a really bad allergy to a lot of tinned dog foods, so the only option was to feed raw food, our cats and dogs were fed it from the first day they entered the house. No slowly changing over the diet etc; we had at the most 5 dogs and 5 cats and you just cannot feed them all seperately, so it was an all or nothing approach. It didn't upset their digestion at all.

Fast forward to my cats and dogs - my oriental cross has allergies - he rips his fur out when given some commercial foods so 4 cats all have to have raw food, enter my dog, she wants the good stuff that the cats have so she gets fed raw food as well.

Not only are my animals in good health (my almost 20 year old cat would testify but he's still sleeping his dinner off) but my purse is in better health, I have costed out several commercial foods including the value supermarket ranges for feeding my animals and feeding raw and can say that the raw food (including a small box of cat biscuits each month to keep my ginger cat happy and quiet) actually saves me a few pounds each month.

So my reasons for feeding raw are ecconomical, ease of feeding, and health of my animals.