Jennie is the last one to be completely transitioned. This is because I had so much of that Tiki Cat left and I just couldn't afford to give it away. Well that was part of the reason. Another was I needed a lot of time to work out the routine of how she would be fed. But thanks to EZcomplete that's not going to be a problem. The third reason was because Jennie doesn't "need" raw in the same way that Mazy cat and Queen Eva do.
The finial issue, which never goes away is lack of freezer space.
Last Saturday I took a load of Tiki Cat to the shelter. I kept just a few cans to finish out the transition.
Jennie has been 50% raw for a long time. All raw on Sundays. One week ago I started replacing her morning Tiki cat meals with raw and EZcomplete. I thought her coat was soft. With this one single change, in one week, her coat is INCREDIBLE!
Imagine what it will be when the transition is complete!
How it will work is this:
Jennie can count and knows she gets two servings at breakfast and supper, and one serving at lunch and bed time. Since she prefers her raw meats in one big chunk still partially frozen, at first I couldn't think how to turn that into two servings without cutting down the chunk.
Her prey model meal is easy. Her first serving consists of her liver, lamb pancreas glandular powder, calcium, taurine and probiotic. She licks the plate clean. Her second meal is her solid chunk of meat (1.2 oz)
Her EZcomplete meals, which are replacing the canned meals now will be served like this:
Breakfast will be 1.2 oz of meat and the appropriate amount of EZc. She gets the EZc with water added into a gravy. She laps up the gravy, that is serving one.
Then she gets her still partially frozen chunk of meat. That is serving two.
Lunch time she will have to settle for smaller chunks. I will cut the 1.2 oz of meat up and mix it with the EZc. She will get half that for lunch (one serving) and the other half for bed time (one serving)
Supper will remain the prey model meals rotated with Stella&Chewy's until I run out of the old formula of S&C. (February 2017). I don't know what is going to replace the S&C. There really isn't any other freeze dried product that meets my criteria. S&C was the only one and of course, they no longer do.
Her total intake for the day, is going to be 3.6 ounces. We will see if that needs adjusting. That total count is just the meat weights. I realize the EZc has to be taken into consideration too, but I am not sure how to do that so I am aiming for 3.6 in total meat/liver.
Currently with her raw and Tiki rotation she maintains her healthy weight with 3.9 ounces a day, a bit higher on Sunday because Sunday is her Wing Day and her Yolk Day.