Raw Food

     I feed whole raw food to my animals. It is simply the best possible food to feed to obligate carnivores like cats and to simple carnivores like dogs and ferrets too. The best thing seems to me to mimic what our pets wild cousins eat and have been thriving on for thousands of years. It has been studied and 80% meat / 10% bone/ 5 % organs other than liver/ 5% liver is what most closely mimics wild prey.
      Typically I feed beef and pork heart, tongue, roasts as well as chicken, duck, and quail. I am trying to get the cats to eat mice, so we could  move onto other whole prey like rabbit and guinea pigs. I think my animals show how healthy they are. I have been feeding raw to my animals for over 10 years now.
     Domestic cats descended from a desert dwelling Felis selvestris and therefor are a desert animal. They seemed to have lost the drive to drink water like say dogs do, because of this there has always been the threat of kidney disease as our friends get older. If you feed a raw diet it contains a lot of moisture, I believe this helps prevent kidney disease in cats. If you do not feed a raw diet then canned wet food is MUCH better than dry or kibble food. Kibble slowly dehydrates your animal throughout its entire lifetime; creating strain on the kidneys from lack of water, the pancreas has to produce more insulin to combat all the carbohydrates, and their teeth rot and decay from the sugar, not to mention the mental stimulation cats and dogs get from having to work to actually eat their dinner.