Primal Raw Cat Food

So I've been introducing my cat to a raw food diet for a couple weeks now. A little bit on the benefits of feeding a raw diet as opposed to a dry diet can be found here. Basically it boils down to feeding your pet the diet their body has evolved to best digest, which is the closest thing they would be eating in the wild. For cat's specifically, that means a no grain, high meat, high moisture diet. At first I started off with the chicken medallions from Nature's Variety. He eventually took to them but it always took a bit of time for him to eat the whole thing. He'd literally eat all of the Grandma Lucy's (which is an amazing freeze-dried grain free food that you rehydrate with warm water)around it and pick at the little patty last. I'd heard that cats take a little longer to get used to eating raw food, especially if they're used to eating nothing but kibble. No surprise! Kibble is sprayed with fat and other things to make it tasty after the extreme heat cooking process kills off all the flavor. That, and domestic cats are notoriously picky eaters. Recently, I was given a few bags of Primal Beef and Salmon formula for cats and just started feeding it on Saturday.

I found that the easiest way to portion out this food, since you need to serve it completely thawed, is to wrap each nugget in the bag in tin foil, and transition one piece from freezer to fridge at each meal. That way, by the time feeding time rolls around, I've got a thawed piece ready to go and an easy, low contamination risk method of thawing the next one. I never have to touch the raw thawed meat, which is good for me on more than one level!

So, the transition has gone excellent. Poe took to the new beef and salmon formula surprisingly quickly, and he looks great from the amazing benefits it provides! His coat is softer, shinier, and he sheds less! He's got renewed energy like a kitten. And this may sound gross (but helpful for pet owners) there's less poop! I've become a big fan of both the freeze-dried and raw diets and would be more than happy to help anyone out with a transition from kibble!