Mushipie
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Good evening fellow sphynxlovers!
I have posted here a few times before - for an introduction of my sweet Otto but also for his poopy issues. Unfortunately I havent been able to post as frequently as I wish to - nor have I been able to update you. But I have been lurking daily! That leads me to the following:
I have now decided that I will be switching Ottos diet to raw. The reason for this being that he has been experiencing some diarrhea issues, and now that everything has settled back to normal, he has pretty soft poop that smells quite awful, almost like puke (very acid like). Sometimes his poop is harder and darker, but most of the time its soft, although shaped, and on the lighter side. He also has super smelly farts that occur every 2 days, sometimes daily.
I have read around the forum and found that a raw diet may be the solution to these issues. I only want the best for my boy so I am more than willing to give it a try.
My questions are:
- He is currently on a dry only diet - eating Royal Canin Kitten, as recommended by his breeder (who claims she only feeds Royal Canin Kitten to her adult cats and nothing else, even though they are no longer kittens). How would I go about transitioning to raw as he does not eat wet and I cannot feed kibble together with raw?
- I currently live in Belgium - and have not found a lot of options for raw food. I did see Haaks barf mentioned on here, and have also seen an option of buying TCPremix Fibre from this german website - the latter would require me to buy my own meat. Should it be frozen meat, not fresh meat from the butcher as we would normally buy for us humans? Do you know any good raw food brands sold in Europe that deliver to Belgium? I have seen some fellow Belgians on here
- He is 6 months old, turning 7 on the 30th of January. He currently eats as much kibble as he likes during the day - but with raw I could only feed him at certain times and he could not free feed. Would this be a problem? Is he too young still and should be fed more often? I am worried about not having kibble available for him at all times.
That is all the questions I have for now - apologies for the wall of text. But now for the GRAND FINALE! Something I should have done a long time ago, but have been way too busy bonding with my bundle of joy.
A BUNCH OF PICTURES OF OTTOS ADVENTURES - FROM 3 MONTHS OLD TO 6 MONTHS OLD!
- including his ugly faces! excuse the dirt in some of the pictures, as a new sphynxmommy I have been learning how to clean him properly!
I have posted here a few times before - for an introduction of my sweet Otto but also for his poopy issues. Unfortunately I havent been able to post as frequently as I wish to - nor have I been able to update you. But I have been lurking daily! That leads me to the following:
I have now decided that I will be switching Ottos diet to raw. The reason for this being that he has been experiencing some diarrhea issues, and now that everything has settled back to normal, he has pretty soft poop that smells quite awful, almost like puke (very acid like). Sometimes his poop is harder and darker, but most of the time its soft, although shaped, and on the lighter side. He also has super smelly farts that occur every 2 days, sometimes daily.
I have read around the forum and found that a raw diet may be the solution to these issues. I only want the best for my boy so I am more than willing to give it a try.
My questions are:
- He is currently on a dry only diet - eating Royal Canin Kitten, as recommended by his breeder (who claims she only feeds Royal Canin Kitten to her adult cats and nothing else, even though they are no longer kittens). How would I go about transitioning to raw as he does not eat wet and I cannot feed kibble together with raw?
- I currently live in Belgium - and have not found a lot of options for raw food. I did see Haaks barf mentioned on here, and have also seen an option of buying TCPremix Fibre from this german website - the latter would require me to buy my own meat. Should it be frozen meat, not fresh meat from the butcher as we would normally buy for us humans? Do you know any good raw food brands sold in Europe that deliver to Belgium? I have seen some fellow Belgians on here
- He is 6 months old, turning 7 on the 30th of January. He currently eats as much kibble as he likes during the day - but with raw I could only feed him at certain times and he could not free feed. Would this be a problem? Is he too young still and should be fed more often? I am worried about not having kibble available for him at all times.
That is all the questions I have for now - apologies for the wall of text. But now for the GRAND FINALE! Something I should have done a long time ago, but have been way too busy bonding with my bundle of joy.
A BUNCH OF PICTURES OF OTTOS ADVENTURES - FROM 3 MONTHS OLD TO 6 MONTHS OLD!
- including his ugly faces! excuse the dirt in some of the pictures, as a new sphynxmommy I have been learning how to clean him properly!
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