I have found a (comparatively) local source for the Rad Cat frozen raw!!!!
Yesterday I saw an ad in the local paper for a pet supply store in a nearby town, I had never heard of them, but they have a website so I checked it out. They had a list of food brands they carry but mentioned they are willing to special order other brands so I contacted them about the Rad Cat and they said they could get it for me! This will reduce the cost of the food for me greatly, because of the cost of gas traveling 200 miles (round trip). Now I will only be traveling 50 miles (round trip).. Whoohoo!
It's funny I made this discovery right after doing all the computations to find out exactly how much it is costing me now to feed my cats, with their canned, commercial raw and homemade raw.
$0.74 per cat per day.
This figure includes the gas expense for traveling to Albany to get the Rad Cat, essential supplements (calcium, vitamin E, vitamin B, taurine), the expense of freezer bags, the expense of extra paper towel use, the canned food, the commercial raw products, and the meat bought from the grocery store. I saved every receipt since last May.
However, the figure will drop as time goes on because the the supplements will not need to be re-purchased for another six months at the soonest. So that will shave off a few cents as the weeks pass.
This figure not include the one time initial expenses of the table top freezer and the food scale.
It also does not include certain other supplements that I use, that do not have anything to do with what kind of food I feed them. The krill oil, egg yolk lecithin and the probiotic, they get these regardless of what diet they are on.
When they were on a canned only diet, they cost on average $1.20 per day per cat for food (again, not including the krill, probiotic and hairball remedy)
Of course, the work involved is quite a lot. But I don't mind it so much now that I have a routine.
