How to Care for Cats : Cat Care Tips: Raw Food

Cats need meat in their diet but also a form of carbohydrate such as rice or a vegetable material. Care for cats and kittens alike properly with tips from an experienced animal care giver in this free video clip on pet care tips.

Expert: Tracy Carreiro
Bio: Tracy Carreiro is member of The Faxon Animal Rescue League. The League was founded in 1913 to help overworked and abused draft horses.
Filmmaker: Christian Munoz-Donoso

Category:

Pets & Animals

Tags:

• cats
• pet care
• pets
• kittens
• vet
• veterinarians
• vaccinations

[AvaCollier]

Someone please keep this moron away from animals. Tomatoes are NOT GOOD. Tomatoes, peppers, onions, grapes/raisins, potatoes, mushrooms...all of these are toxic to cats. Don't give your poor cat white rice, or pasta. Think about what you're doing. A cat's natural diet consists of whole rodents, insects, birds, and small reptiles. Bones, fur, organs, and all. If you can't provide this, do your best to mimic it, or you are doing it WRONG!

[ALW9876]

Grains?Erm she mustve brainwashed the poor kitty carers cuz my cat died cuz of her! Stupid mutherfucker she needs 2 go back 2 school.

[gretabug]

The big shinny bag of science diet should tell you who signs her paycheck. Science diet is one of the worst foods out there. God designed cats to eat little crunchy critters, fur, bones organs and all. Not wonder bread and iceberg lettuce.

[spacep0d]

Bones, organs, meat. That's what OBLIGATE carnivores need. Not your silly veggies. Pasta? Are you serious? Pasta doesn't even exist in the wild. Is there a part of the Serengeti serving pasta to felines that we need to know about?

[lessgraviity]

Obligate: Restricted to a particular function or mode of life.

Meaning, does not need anything other than what is is obligated to eat!

[ajlitzinger]

I feel mean saying this but if the person giving advice isn't healthy, their advice probably isn't the healthiest either. I disagree with this completely. Cats need cooked white rice? Common sense is gone. Lady at work has a puppy German Shepard and it's in and out of the vet all the time. I keep recommend her seriously considering a NATURAL diet for her dog.

[reniwick]

Do not listen to this woman. She is completely WRONG. The raw meat diet with bones is the best diet for a cat or a dog.

[jojocatlady]

Cats need meat, bones, and organs. If the food is frozen, some of the taurine (an essential amino acid for cats) can be damaged requiring extra organ meat, which is rich in taurine.

My cats also enjoy wheatgrass, avocado, rib of romaine, cantaloupe, cucumber, broccoli, zucchini, etc., but only as treats. One of my cats is nuts for oranges and another wants my Brazil nuts. They never get grains.

I have three who are 17+ years old, raw for 8 years. And several younger ones raw since weaning.

[nkk86m]

this woman is an idiot. Cats only need meat!!

[nutcase1995]

cats ONLY need meat, dogs on the other hand are omnivores

[SuperKizzyCat]

catinfo.org is another fantastic source for reliable information about proper raw feeding for cats

[RayQuade]

No cat in the wild has ever ate rice and vegatables. Go to catnutrition org to find out how to make food for your cat