Raw Diet?

[FaunaFreak]

Does anyone here have their cats on a natural/raw diet? I'd like to switch mine over, but am not sure how to go about it in a way that is most healthy for my babies. I know our little street kitty Skit will be easy - She'll eat just about anything (in fact, at the moment her weight is higher than her age. One reason I'd like to switch over :p)

[**Sapphire**]

No, I don't have my guys on a raw/natural diet. You know I'm not sure they would like it. Maybe EJ & Lady would as they tend to like "human food". Lucy most likely wouldn't take to it as she will sniff food, but not eat anything but her cat food.

How about getting a little bit of the natural food & letting them try it & see if they like it Fauna? Like start out slowly, working your way in to giving them an all natural diet?

[FaunaFreak]

That's what I'm hoping to do. I've ordered some ground food (rabbit, chicken, beef, etc - bones/organs and all) that I'm going to SLOWLY mix into their kibble. I just don't know if I need to also add greens. Anna eats my plants, and out of frustration over this one day I tossed some spring mix into her bowl. She ate it, so I'm wondering if I need to add some green to their diet. I know dogs are omnivores, but I thought cats only ate grass when they get upset stomachs.

[**Sapphire**]

I think it would be OK to add some greens to their food as well hun. The greens might give them a little something more than the meat doesn't have.

If you notice alot of the different cat foods (dry & wet) have "garden greens" in them, so greens must be pretty good for cats.

I know some of the wet food I give to my bunch, they seem to like the garden greens.

[Runsnwalken]

Most plant stuff cats cannot process, even if they eat it, it goes right through them.. Cats eat grass to sicken themselves if they have a bad gut, or hair ball,or to help push out bad things, Large grazing dinosaurs ate rocks much the same way for similar reasons.