Reply #28: Mine are older....

[MsTryska]

9 and 10, and i've been feeding raw for the last year or so. They were both obese, and I started because one of them was chronically constipated. He's a little less so now, but i've always got to watch him. The other one was about 16lbs and he's down to 13. Unfortunately he was also diagnosed as hyperthyroid, so i think that helped him lose the weight.


I'm failry confident that both of their problems would either have been avoided or mitigated if i'd not fed them grocery store food from the time they were kittens.


either way - they are both doing well now - great coats and everything. The older fat one, used to be damn near autistic, never socialized didn't want to be touched etc. and he was a serious kibble addict. It was tough breaking him to raw, but when i finally got him to at least eat it, grudgingly, his persoanlity got so much better - he tolerates handling,a nd he definitely likes to hang out where the action is now.

I think the most heartwarming thing to me was when he had spend a night at the vet's a few months ago, because he had soem mysterious vomiting (that's when he was diagnosed as hyper-t). well the entire time he was there he wouldn't eat, even when they gave him his favorite canned food. when i finally got him home - i offered him baby chicken first - wouldn't eat it, the avorie canned food - wouldn't eat it - and finally he got what he wand - Mom's home cookingg. :D I was so thrilled that his first meal in five days was his rw food. I'm wonderign now ehther what he was going through was soem sort of late healing crisis.

either way we've been going gangbusters ever since.

in any case - are you happy with hare-today? i'm in Georgia but i've bene contemplating ordering from them. Mine don't eat mammals - except maybe rabbit. So i grind them turkey, chicken, and occasionally quail or rabbit. I sometimes add in ground pork, for variety. But i'm eager to give hare todays pheasant and other things a shot.