Raw questions for my sphynx

[Triton84]

Oooooh this is the post I was looking for!! Yet... I still feel confused as to what is best for Triton. He's 13 wks old and came to us eating Royal Canin kibble for 0-4 months. I've read so many great things about feeding raw so I'm trying to transition him. I've already ordered a grinder and will be shopping for meat and supplements soon. I have so many questions so I'll list them:

1. While I'm doing the raw diet, is it ok to have kibble available all the time? We're at work for a large portion of the day and wouldn't want him to go hungry.

2. Is Royal Canin ok to use as dry food? Or is there a better dry kibble out there?

3. How bad is it to buy meats from Wal-mart or Penn Dutch (commercial meats)? I've read conflicting posts about it.

4. How much of the raw food should he be eating? Now as a kitten and later as an adult? Or is this something I play by ear??

 

[admin]

Oooooh this is the post I was looking for!! Yet... I still feel confused as to what is best for Triton. He's 13 wks old and came to us eating Royal Canin kibble for 0-4 months. I've read so many great things about feeding raw so I'm trying to transition him. I've already ordered a grinder and will be shopping for meat and supplements soon. I have so many questions so I'll list them:

1. While I'm doing the raw diet, is it ok to have kibble available all the time? We're at work for a large portion of the day and wouldn't want him to go hungry.

2. Is Royal Canin ok to use as dry food? Or is there a better dry kibble out there?

3. How bad is it to buy meats from Wal-mart or Penn Dutch (commercial meats)? I've read conflicting posts about it.

4. How much of the raw food should he be eating? Now as a kitten and later as an adult? Or is this something I play by ear??

We do not feed raw, but I think I can answer some of these just from others usuing raw on the site, please correct me if I am wrong!

1. While I'm doing the raw diet, is it ok to have kibble available all the time? We're at work for a large portion of the day and wouldn't want him to go hungry. Dry kibble and raw digest at different speeds so it's not recommended to feed kibble while feeding raw. I have read if you wait 4-6 hours you can feed kibble after raw or vice versa. The kibble takes longer to digest than the raw.

2. Is Royal Canin ok to use as dry food? Or is there a better dry kibble out there? I have never heard anything horrible or complaints about that brand.

3. How bad is it to buy meats from Wal-mart or Penn Dutch (commercial meats)? I've read conflicting posts about it. Sorry no info.

4. How much of the raw food should he be eating? Now as a kitten and later as an adult? Or is this something I play by ear?? I believe it's the same as a grown sphynx. But the supplements may be different as far as amounts for the kittens.

Hopefully someone will chime in with more experience with raw and kittens.

 

[Cathie]

I feed both. I have heard not to. But i feed raw at night and kibble (TOTW) in the morning. I do not free feed anymore. Royal Canin is a good brand, just expensive to me for the grain in food.
I buy my meat from Wal-mart, so I dont think its bad too.
I feed about 3/4 of a cup to a cup per cat per night.

Not saying its right or wrong, but thats what I do.

 

[Triton84]

Thank you for responding! I've read such a mix of things as to what is the 'right' thing to do. Right now, he's only a kitten so everyone has told me to just feed him as much as he wants to eat. I have kibble out for him all day but he mostly eats canned food right now (haven't gotten the grinder and supplements yet). I have some of the Royal Canin food left but as soon as the bag is done, I'm probably going to purchase the EVO kibble which the people at the pet store recommended. Plus I've read that a lot of the forum members here use that brand as well. Triton is loving their canned food for kittens. He can almost eat the whole kitten can!

I will go to Wal-mart for some things but I've heard that Penn Dutch is a great place to go too for bulk items (as well as Costco and BJs warehouse). I feel like using those organic meats are better than kibble and canned food.

Thanks for your input guys!!