r/rawpetfood

I have been toying with the idea of switching my 4 cats to whole prey food.

I raise my own feeder mice and rats for my reptiles, they eat a healthy varied diet, have enrichment and are very active. I process them with a C02 chamber that is following AVMA standard. My friend has a farm where they raise quail, chicken and rabbits, so I would have access to that too. They provide my large monitor lizard with young roosters already.

I also live near a river that is filled with invasive freshwater gobies. And have access to frozen fish from grocery store (sardines, anchovies, etc).

How much would I feed each cat? How often should I feed fish alongside the bird or rodents?

Worth noting that my largest cat is Beast, my Maine coon bengal mix who weighs 25lbs. My smallest cat is Stripe, she is a runty shorthaired domestic that weighs 4.5lbs. How much would I feed them?

Thank you for taking the time to respond. Here is cat tax

my cats have been on a wet and dry food diet for a long time already and i want them to try some raw food. i added one spoon of commercial raw food beside their usual wet food and added a high value treat on top (some duck breast which they love) they ate everything except the raw food. any tips on how to transition them to raw food? im still gonna be keeping wet food in their diet, i just wanna add raw

Hey all! Oliver is my new pup- I had switched him over to viva raw puppy when I adopted him, and he's been on that for about 2 weeks. Today he ate his first PMR raw meal without even a second thought! He had quail, kidney, liver, and chicken hearts.

My question: is it okay to keep him half viva and half home made until i use up the viva? Thanks!

Pic of him next to a ketchup bottle for the algorithm 🫒