Here’s my plan to transition the Super Seniors and Tabs back to a raw diet…or somewhere there.
For Tabs, she loves Primal Freeze-Dried, so I’m going to give her that whenever she asks for kibble. I think it shouldn’t be a problem.
Now, for the Super Seniors, it isn’t going to be as easy because they are, well, super seniors, and get to demand whatever they want or else they go on a hunger strike.
Cow and Cleo eat Coco&Joe’s, so that’s taken care of. It’s Indy who is really difficult. Indy seems to need canned food and he will ask for kibble. This evening, I gave them rehydrated Primal and they all ate it. Yay! But after eating, they still asked for kibble. And the way Indy asked was as if he was starving….sigh.
The kibble I had to buy to entice Bunny to eat are RC Renal, RC Gastrointestinal and various flavours of Cindy’s Naturelle Grainfree for variety. Then, I thought I should look for lower protein, so went for Cindy’s Holistic besides Cindy’s Grainfree.
After discussing nutrition with my raw-feeding friend, he tells me that cats cannot digest wheat and kibble isn’t so good for cats with IBD (I know kibble isn’t as good as wet food for cats, but Bunny refused to eat so I had to give him variety and options, else he’d rather starve – Bunny was eating everything and he needed variety). So, now as a first step, I’m going to transition them back to kibble without wheat and that would be Cindy’s Naturelle Grainfree. Salmon has 30% protein and Chicken has 32%. It’s Chicken and Turkey that has 34% but this is the most flavourful (but the protein content is too high for elderly cats).
I hope that in time, I can get them off kibble and back to Primal (to replace kibble). Cow and Cleo are already back on Coco&Joe’s as their staple diet.
Ginger, Rey, Robin, Lynx, Smurfy and Minnie are on Coco&Joe’s. They get Cubgrub’s dehydrated raw chicken for treats and now they also get rehydrated Primal as a treat. I wish Avant would bring in other flavours of Primal such as duck and rabbit (it’s novel protein that we need) but there is no market for these. I guess the idea and importance of protein rotation hasn’t caught on with cat parents yet.
I spoke with Coco&Joe’s and they do have their Prime Combo which has duck but they are coming up with a pure duck flavour soon. This would be good as that’s considered a novel protein.
The purpose of a novel protein diet is to replace the most likely allergen in a pet’s diet with a protein that their body hasn’t been exposed to. This reduces the chances that your pet will have a negative immune response to the protein.
Everyone is what they eat. Nutrition is really important for good health.