I started training Gerald some weeks back but I wasn’t consistent enough, so the training is ongoing, but at the pace I can manage.
Inside the house, everyone is on a 100% raw diet but the Super Seniors and Tabs get some leeway.
So this morning, instead of one can (of canned food) per cat which is what I usually give, it’s two cans mixed with a fair amount of Coco&Joe’s. Yesterday, I mixed cut raw chicken meat with their canned food and Misty left them behind. Gerald ate everything up. Today would be Creamy’s first time being served raw food.
Once a cat has tasted kibble and canned, it can be challenging getting them to eat raw food as they may not be familiar with the smell and taste of it. However, some cats with strong feral and primal instincts will take to raw food instantly even though they have not been exposed to it. A good example would be Pole and Cleo. They took to raw food instantly, as though saying, “Now this is my biologically appropriate food, why has it taken you so long to serve this to us??”
BARF actually stands for, simply, Bones And Raw Food. But a more canggih version is Biologically-Appropriate Raw Food. This works for the acronym too!
I know Gerald can already eat raw food, so the challenge is to train Creamy and Misty only.
I didn’t have time to wait, so I left the food with them eating.
When I checked much later….
Sapu habis!!
Of course I don’t know who sapu habis everything, but at least it’s sapu habis, right? The other day, Misty left all the raw cut meat behind and it was all dried up when I checked. Today, I didn’t give cut up meat, I only added Coco&Joe’s.
Here are our two permanent residents of the porch. Creamy goes home to his home, wherever that is. He only comes round for food. But if you look at Creamy now, compared with when he first came, he’s filled up and is pretty solid!