Spinoff of cat thread: canned vs. dry food...?

[Biciclista]

yes, Eden, that's right, cooking (and freezing for that matter) destroys some of the good stuff, but that's why you add to the mix, yes.

PS Since I use human grade meat for the cats, I handle it like I handle food I am going to eat. My husband says "I always know when you made cat food because the kitchen is always much cleaner when you are done."

When I first started feeding the cats raw food, they left the bits of bone in their dishes. I was very disturbed by this (because they need bones, too!) eventually they got used to it and now they eat it all.

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Very interesting--that makes sense that they'd need the bone, too. I take it you have to make sure that the bone is ground or something to avoid them eating splinters...?

[Biciclista]

I grind the chicken in a Maverick grinder -- coarse grind (bones and all) I also leave chunks of breast meat, gizzards and whole hearts for them to chew on.

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Our Kitchenaid mixer has the meat grinding attachment, but I suspect it couldn't handle bones.

[Biciclista]

Uh, Kitchenaid mixers can't handle bones. Ask me how I know? Their customer service was great, they replaced one mixer. When my husband tried to make sausage and the gears started groaning (no bones) he actually got rid of the thing. Too bad, it had been a life time dream for him to own one.

[zoom-zoom]

Uh, Kitchenaid mixers can't handle bones. Ask me how I know? Their customer service was great, they replaced one mixer. When my husband tried to make sausage and the gears started groaning (no bones) he actually got rid of the thing. Too bad, it had been a life time dream for him to own one.

That's kind of what I suspected. Ours (an 11+ year old Heavy Duty mixer, which isn't very heavy duty compared to their more recent models) sometimes labors with cookie dough.

[Titania]

Both of my cats are FIV positive, so we do everything we can to keep their teeth in good shape to reduce the risk of systemic infection. Our cats do get wet food as an occassional treat, but dry food is 99% of their diet.