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What type of food do you feed your Sphynx?

What type of food do you feed your Sphynx ?

  • Only wet

    Votes: 5 5.1%

  • Only dry

    Votes: 8 8.2%

  • Dry and wet

    Votes: 67 68.4%

  • Only raw

    Votes: 14 14.3%

  • Only grain free

    Votes: 4 4.1%
  • Total voters
    98
Bailey21

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@Shmeeps I actually buy commercial, so I only add some extra vitamins. If I ever switch to home made raw, I think I would give BITR a try as I've heard many good things about it. @Xandria uses it in her home made raw as well I believe.
 
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Hi lovely people! I am new to this forum. I adopted my kitten Ziggy 4 months ago, he is 6 months old now. I am thinking about switching to raw. I think I've read most topics/threads on this forum but wanted to ask a question. I am not sure if this is the right place but here it goes.

Is it equally good to feed him cooked meat? I read that cooked meat does not provide as much nutrients as raw but couldn't find any research or study to back this up. Any help/ insight/ advice would be much appreciated! Thank you!
 
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Anita9 said:
Hi lovely people! I am new to this forum. I adopted my kitten Ziggy 4 months ago, he is 6 months old now. I am thinking about switching to raw. I think I've read most topics/threads on this forum but wanted to ask a question. I am not sure if this is the right place but here it goes.

Is it equally good to feed him cooked meat? I read that cooked meat does not provide as much nutrients as raw but couldn't find any research or study to back this up. Any help/ insight/ advice would be much appreciated! Thank you!
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The arguments for raw:
1. It more closely resembles the ancestral diet
2. The cooking process kills some of the nutrients in raw food
3. Easier to prepare

The argument for cooked:
1. Kill bacteria in the meat
2. Easier to source meat

I think either one is fine.

Personally I feed raw, but I have access to frozen meat which is suitable for raw feeding. Grocery store meats are only suitable for cooking because once they've been unfrozen and exposed to air they start growing bacteria. If I could only buy grocery store meats, I guess I would have to cook.

With raw diets you can include bones for calcium, but with cooked diets you can't feed cooked bones so you need a calcium substitute.

Taurine is sensitive to heat so even if I cooked everything else I would still give them raw chicken hearts for taurine.
 
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