Top Cat just had her first "complete" meal. 1 ounce of meat (chicken gizzard/heart) .10 ounce liver (supposed to be .05 ounces of liver and .05 ounces of other secreting organ, but liver is all I have), and the 1/32 tsp of egg shell calcium. Holy moly she inhaled it!
Struvite Kitty is eating the Rad Cat turkey with only a small dusting of Vet's-Best.
Little Cat was interested in the liver but after a lick or two said "maybe another time".
I used to keep track of calories. I'm changing my recording method, I'm now recording ounces eaten only. Raw or canned, regardless of brand, I am now making sure they've had the proper amount of ounces of food a day. For TC, that is 4.5. SK is 3.75. LC is 6, when I can get her to eat that much.
I'm just trying this, to see how it goes. If anyone loses or gains weight with this method I may have to rethink it. (I weigh them once a week) But this will make it easier on ME, if it works, since they are going to be eating three different sources of food, home made raw, commercial raw and canned.
Cutting up .05 ounce pieces of chicken liver to be frozen individually turned out to be a major chore, LOL. So I upped them to .10 for now (and even that is going to be a very long task, I only have two ice cube trays), until I try some kidney, if I can find some. Since this is only one meal a day, one fourth of her daily intake (so far), that should not be too much liver.
In case anyone is interested, this is what my Cat Journal looks like.
I use red ink to record anything I may want to check back on quickly such as regurgitation or other health issue, starting a new batch of any certain food or supplement, and so on. Bowel movements are recorded in the margin.
The back cover is a compilation of all foods I feed, and caloric content, size of can, total per can, and total per 1/8 can (usual serving size), the commercial raw foods have been added, calories figured out per ounce, or per nugget.
I copy that over whenever I start a new notebook. I will continue to copy that data, even though I am going to try counting just ounces instead of calories.
I've been keeping a cat journal since 1985, when Baby
developed asthma.