While we are on the subject of raw diet, don't they eat some of those things when they catch a mouse, rabbit or squirrel or bird? The only things my guys don't eat are the organs, especially intestines. Other wise, they eat the whole thing.
---- Lee Evans <[email protected]> wrote: > This is why my check register and my bank account never balance. You're > right. It's more like $24 a day. Back to the 36 pounds of corn meal and > by-product powder in a bag. Incidentally, a by-product can be anything that > is not the main product of what is being produced. So a by-product of meat > production can be animal poop, hair, bone, hoofs, and other unmentionables. > It's usually intestines and organs that humans would not consider eating. The > exception is cow hooves. Gelatin is made from cow hooves. I guess Jello > sounds more appetizing than Hoofo. Spay and Neuter your cats and dogs and your weird relatives and nasty neighbors too! ________________________________ From: Kathryn Hargreaves <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Friday, October 12, 2012 12:10 PM Subject: Re: [Felvtalk] The Price of Cat Food I'm not quite sure how you arrived at the $9/day, at least not based on what I said. It seems too low. Yes, transition to raw is sometimes a slow one, at least for some cats. On Thu, Oct 11, 2012 at 12:27 PM, Lee Evans <[email protected]> wrote: It would be nice if I could do that but I'm feeding around 35 cats right now. Feeding raw would cost me around $9 a day with turns into around $250 a month. On top of which, I would be a little nervous to feed raw chicken to the cats. Some of them probably wouldn't even understand what it was while others might throw it up at first. Cooked chicken would add about 3 hours work to my day. My freezer would be full of frozen chicken, not defrosted in time for their dinner and I would go insane. > >The dry food costs me about $100 - $150 a month. With the price of Kirkland >going up it would cost me about equal to that because they eat less of the >Kirkland due to fat content. Seems to fill them up better. I used to buy >Friskies regular type, and Purina Cat Chow (no one wanted to eat that). Then I bought HEB brand Hill Country Fair and all the cats began throwing up in unison. Stopped buying that also. They seem to be able to digest Paws and Claws, the Tractor Supply brand that cost $20 for 36 pounds but the older ones lose weight when they eat it. One of my cats, Isadora lost most of her fur (long hair) and had scabs and sores on her skin. I began feeding Kirkland about 3 months ago and the other day I realized that Isadora had no more scabs and had grown back her fur. The fat content did her a whole lot of good. She looks like she has gained a pound or two and is much more active. Mr. Buttons (Big Butt-tons) also gained weight on Kirkland. I need to widen the doorway for him. >I will probably have to keep buying the Kirkland and just work harder. > > > > >Spay and Neuter your cats and dogs and your weird relatives and nasty >neighbors too! > > > > > >________________________________ > From: Kathryn Hargreaves <[email protected]> >To: [email protected] >Sent: Thursday, October 11, 2012 1:28 PM > >Subject: Re: [Felvtalk] The Price of Cat Food > > > >I'm curious as to how much you are spending per day per cat feeding dry. I am >able to feed raw for 70 cents/day per cat. If you didn't buy the chicken from >Whole Foods, which charges about twice as much as do, say local ethnic >butchers, then you could roll in for around half that. > > >I've heard they have to eat more dry than raw, as it isn't as high-octane of >food. Also, cats don't drink enough water to compensate for dry food, >grain/starch-free or not, and stand a very good chance of ending up with CRF. > > > > >On Thu, Oct 11, 2012 at 10:06 AM, Lee Evans <[email protected]> wrote: > >Oh, @#$%!!!. The price of Kirkland Adult Maintenance cat food used to be >$16.99. Then it went up a year later to $17.59. Well, I bought two 20 lb. >bags a week and a half ago. This Tuesday, I went back to Costco because my >cats ate most of the Kirkland and the price had gone up to $18.99!!! It went >up $1.49 in about a week. This is robbery. I'm so depressed. The crap I buy >at the feed store doesn't have a high fat content and doesn't have actual >chicken like Kirkland and is $20 for a 36 pound bag. Well, kitties, you're >going to be back on a diet of crap and corn meal unless Mommy can get another >job online. Sigh. >> >> >> >> >>Spay and Neuter your cats and dogs and your weird relatives and nasty >>neighbors too! >> >> >>_______________________________________________ >>Felvtalk mailing list >>[email protected] >>http://felineleukemia.org/mailman/listinfo/felvtalk_felineleukemia.org >> >> > > > >---------------------------- Go Get a Life---Go Get a Shelter Animal! If you can't adopt, then foster "bottle baby" shelter animal, to save their life. Contact your local pound for information. If you can't bottle feed, foster an older animal, to save their life, and to free up cage space. 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