I bought a badass meat grinder to make my cats a raw food diet.
I know, right? That’s totally what crazy homeopathic people do, right? Have a fridge full of nasty raw meat and bones and livers and grossossities all over the floor? I mean, Jesus Christ, WTF?
But Stokie’s prescription food costs an arm and a leg, and while it does make his poops better, they’re not what I’d really call “great poop”. They’re really kind of mediocre.
And I can make sausage. I mean, let’s be honest, I probably never will. But I could.
Unfortunate byproduct: cats have acquired a taste for raw flesh.
Meh. Crazy Cat Lady eats the cat food alongside her cats. Caring Cat Lady takes the time to learn about feline nutrition and do what’s best for the cats. You’re still CCL, but I think you’re the latter.
My wolf (and by extension, our chihuahua) are now on a partial-raw diet. That is to say, they both get 2-4% of their body weight per day in raw meat (whatever we eat for dinner, the boys get some pre-cooked & when I make like steak or something that I have to trim, I save the trimmings/bones for the boys for later), but are also offered kibbles n bits to supplement. We have only been doing this for 2 weeks – the difference in the health of their coats was apparent within 2 days for the wolf, about a week for the chihuahua (who has never had raw meat/people food in his 4 years because I was worried about his little digestive system). You are going to be amazed at how much more calm, happy and healthy the cats are by end of the month.
I just feel a little icky about it because of all the online stuff about it - if I see that study about “cooked food mutilates your cats” one more time I think I’ll scream. Yeah, cats OBVIOUSLY can’t survive on dry food. I mean, everybody’s cats are spavined abominations, right?
My cats have clearly gotten hold of a credit card and are using it to get stuff published in the media that will make us do their bidding. There was a column published in the San Francisco Chronicle that said you should give a cat that has hairball problems a hairball treat a week as a preventative. I think Katya paid to get that article in there (she loves the hairball treats). I think Luna paid for the “cats can’t live on cooked food alone” one, so that I’ll be sure to give her a little bit of raw poultry, fish, or beef whenever we cook it for ourselves.
I believe they come from the factory equipped with that.
More than two cats is Crazy Cat Lady Territory. As in three or more cats. Nothing less, anything more than two. This is a numerical thing. You can try getting married and passing one or more cats off as hubby’s, but nobody’s buying it. If you have a live in daughter who will claim a cat, that might be saleable. Crazy cat lady living with crazy cat lady’s sister and claiming one of the cats doesn’t count: both are crazy.
So, did you get this meat grinder thingy off an infomercial / 800# show? Did it come with a “Pocket Fisherman” or “Ginsu Knifes” appropriate for the garnering and gnashing the raw materials? A kind of “Kosher for Kats” diet program?
No, I mean the people who think the cat food industrial complex is out to get them. The same people who spend a lot of money on homeopathic “medicines” and if they see you take an Advil will relish the opportunity to tell you how THEY aren’t being rooked by the modern medical system.
I prefer the expandable theory: Crazy Cat Threshold > Number of people in the house + 1. If there’s one person living alone, two is fine, three is crazy. If there’s two people, three is fine, four is crazy. If you have a commune with like 10 people, you can have up to 11 cats and be totally cool. You hit 12, you’re just into wackyland.
Edit: This could probably be further generalized into the Crazy Pet Threshold, with an exception made for farms.
