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Oh f-list, my f-list, talk to me about the raw food diet. Positives, negatives? My google-fu is failing me because every source I read is either "a raw food diet will change your cat's life" or "a raw food diet will kill your cat". I have neither the time nor the inclination to make my own cat food, but I'm told there are commercially prepared frozen raw foods out there with a balance of ingredients. You just defrost and serve. Is it worth trying? My local pet supply store has a freezer section.
As of today, I am supplementing YMW's Medi-Cal Gastro-Intestinal Cat Food diet with bits of cooked chicken breast, because chicken breast seems to be the only thing besides the Medi-Cal that she can keep down right now. And she hates the Medi-Cal, eats less of it with every day that passes (not hyperbole. I'm recording exactly how much she's eating and how much she's leaving in the dish until it spoils, and there's a steady decline). But I can't afford to feed her on chicken breast until the end of time, not to mention the fact that it's hardly a balanced diet. Also, I have a conceptual problem with cooking my cat human grade chicken breast while I eat an egg salad sandwich for supper! Maybe I should keep her on the Medi-Cal alone, on the assumption that sooner or later she'll get hungry enough to eat it in the amounts the vet said she would, but in the meantime she's losing weight.
If you don't have an opinion, or are bored silly by YMW's gastric shenanigans (and hell, *I'm* bored silly by them), feel free to scroll on by. I feel bad about inflicting yet another post of this kind on my long-suffering dwircle/f-list, but I can think of little else given that she's basically on a hunger strike. She is not a political prisoner in my home, though, I swear! Stupid animal.
As of today, I am supplementing YMW's Medi-Cal Gastro-Intestinal Cat Food diet with bits of cooked chicken breast, because chicken breast seems to be the only thing besides the Medi-Cal that she can keep down right now. And she hates the Medi-Cal, eats less of it with every day that passes (not hyperbole. I'm recording exactly how much she's eating and how much she's leaving in the dish until it spoils, and there's a steady decline). But I can't afford to feed her on chicken breast until the end of time, not to mention the fact that it's hardly a balanced diet. Also, I have a conceptual problem with cooking my cat human grade chicken breast while I eat an egg salad sandwich for supper! Maybe I should keep her on the Medi-Cal alone, on the assumption that sooner or later she'll get hungry enough to eat it in the amounts the vet said she would, but in the meantime she's losing weight.
If you don't have an opinion, or are bored silly by YMW's gastric shenanigans (and hell, *I'm* bored silly by them), feel free to scroll on by. I feel bad about inflicting yet another post of this kind on my long-suffering dwircle/f-list, but I can think of little else given that she's basically on a hunger strike. She is not a political prisoner in my home, though, I swear! Stupid animal.
