Partial raw food diet?

I fed mine just high quality wet food. Rikki cat for treats, perfect bistro for main diet. He didn't eat that much so it only cost me about 40 bucks a month.

They definitely need the wet food and preferably in the morning and night, if not for their main diet. Getting them used to eating a few different flavours will also save you a lot of frustration if you end up having to switch brands. Switching protein sources once in a while is also good.

>>2249419
Tykki cat*

Dry food is not great for cats! You should think about feeding canned food for all of his meals. Here's a great resource: http://www.catinfo.org/

What food you feed them really depends on what your budget is. Personally I feed the cheapest grain free thing I can find, preferably with no fish. I feed a large variety of foods since the companies aren't as reliable and I worry about brand recalls.

I feed Paws and Claws, 4Health, Wellness (in the big can), Soulistic (from Petco), and Fancy Feast Classics. I have two kittens and they eat a ton of food.

>>2249290
Just in case you do end up feeding him full wet, remember to either give him some dry food or treats good for teeths every day, or clean his teeth/get them cleabed regularly.
Only dry will fuck up his teeth.

Cats' natural diet is rodents, birds, small reptiles. If you've ever dissected one or cleaned it for human consumption, you'll find that they have a very high entrail-to-meat ratio. Like, sometimes more guts than (muscle) meat. And the cat eats the whole thing except the gall bladder (and the incisors and sometimes the feet or the tail, depending on the critter). Most of the nutrition is in the brains and entrails... not the muscle meat. So if you're just feeding your cat human-grade muscle meat (chicken, fish, etc) you're missing most of the nutrition the cat needs. A balanced commercially-produced cat food is better than feeding him human-grade muscle meat. Cats need a lot of taurine which they mostly get (in the wild) from eating brains. So commercially prepared cat foods have added taurine. Chicken and fish meat don't have taurine. That's just one example.

Also, fish are often high in heavy metals, so a diet high in fish isn't a good idea. The FDA's guidelines for how much fish you should be eating per month is alarmingly low. This is because of the heavy metal contamination in the oceans.

Uh, I meant dissected a rodent, bird, or small reptile. Not dissected a cat. Although we were expected to dissect a cat in school. 9th grade I think. I cried. Sad kitties vacuum sealed in bags.

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Thanks guys! I'll go with a grain free wet food for the majority of his diet with some high quality dry food mixed in here and there for his teeth/poop. Your comments make sense - I read about some people who make their own food online but a lot of them don't add any nutrients which looked off to me.

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>>2249892
Aww! He looks a little like mine!

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>>2249892
>>2249923
Here's a picture of him a little younger. Expect your kitties face to get a lot darker.

>>2249290
>What do you guys feed your cats?
strychnine

>>2249892
You can make your own food but it's trickier than it might first appear. You need to source entrails, not just muscle meat.