Okay guys, I have been wanting to feed my cats raw and have asked about it many times on here and then given up, but this time I am really going to get them to eat it, but I need your help.

Right... So I have got Roxy (9 month old female), Smudge (9 month old male), Murray (9 month old male) and Twiglet (12 week old female).

Okay, so I thought I would try something as close to cat food as I could to start with (texture wise) so I got some mince, two days ago I fed them a mixture of their cat food (Bozita) and Turkey mince. Twiglet loved it! In fact, I didn't even have to mix hers with the cat food. Smudge and Murray ate a reasonable amount but Roxy barely touched it and just snacked on her dry food.

I fed it again for breakfast the next morning, this time Smudge and Murray took to it a bit better but Roxy still walked away.

Yesterday evening, I came home with kidney... yuck! So I chopped it up a bit at first (omg disgusting!) Murray sniffed it and walked off to the dry food, as did twiglet. Roxy and Smudge were eating the chopped up bits quite happily, I then fed them whole kidneys and they attacked them really well.

They seemed pretty hungry, and as the others were not going for the kidney at all (even though I even tried to sneak it into the dry food bowle, they just dug round it. So I got out some diced chicken, breaking it into little bits at first, Roxy and Smudge gobbleing it down, but Twiglet and Murray still just walking away. (I think by this point, my hands stunk of Kidney!). I was having great sucess with Smudge and Roxy they were eating massive bits of chicken by the end of the evening, but all murray and twiglet had eaten was dry food.

This morning, I put down beef mince (mixed with Bozita), Twiglet once again gobbled down the mince no problem, but the other 3 barely touched any of it and have gone off outside with no breakfast. The thing is, the amount Roxy and Smudge ate last night, to be honnest they prob aren't even that hungry but Murray is just not eating anything.

Any Suggestions welcome!

I feed mine a mixture of wet and raw - i buy the raw meat from:

North West Pet Foods, pet supplies.

They sell yeomans frozen pet food which is minced rabbit, chicken etc and they love it! Its very cheap as well and seems to last a resonable amount of time.

I have tried just raw chicken etc from what i've been cooking and their not interested. This minced meat seems to be tastier

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Don't give up. It will take time for the cats to get used to it.

Are you thinking of going totally over to raw? If so, will the cats get everything they need in way of supplements?

No not completely, I have ordered some Orijen and was going to have that down all day, to try and make sure they get all they need if I am missing something.

I had a bit of success with Twiglet this evening, she has eaten some fairly big chunks of chicken this evening but Roxy has not eaten anything all day.

I have taken the dry food away today as Murray keeps eating it and I think he is filling himself up on it, but he still wont eat any raw. I even tried attaching a bit of chicken to some string, he chased the string, caught the chicken, smelt it and walked away.

Have you tried mixing tiny shreds of mince with the dry food?

If it works you should be able to increase the amount of raw, and decrease the amount of dry.

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I was mixing the mince with their wet food, but it wasn't working. I didn't try it with the dry, because I read that the digestion time for dry and for raw is very different so they shouldn't be mixed.

Murray does not seem to be eating anything. He wont even eat his normal cat food now and I am getting worried.

We only feed ours raw occasionally helz but AJ feeds his fur crew raw so he'd be i think the best person to ask unless someone else does the same,but good luck with them,he swears by it and has dogs and cats

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If you are going to feed raw only look at this site as it gives a recipe:

Cat nutrition « The Cat’s Whiskers

Okay thanks Kel, I was thinking I would get some good advice from AJ too, the biggest problem I am having at the moment is just convincing them to eat it!

Thanks Janee, that website looks really useful! I will give it a good read!

If you blast them with a half and half mixture you will give them wind. Introducing it gradually shouldn't give you any problems.

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