No more dried-out remains
Like many cats, 15-year-old Nidos has always changed his mind at random over food. Old-cat Whiskas and nothing else for months, then all of a sudden only old-cat Felix will do. Forget about canned meat, only pouches for this cat (sigh) and the prices are forever on the up. Then I came across the BARF concept on the www.
It's only been a month, but it's looking good so far.
I tested out the basics with a lightly baked chicken drumstick before taking the plunge. To this day, chicken still has to be lightly cooked before Nidos will eat it; the difference is that he no longer goes nuts when he sees a drumstick going into the oven. He's already eaten, thanks.
Felini Complete made it very easy to switch to a pure meat diet. Nidos has raw minced beef (value pack split into daily portions, deep-frozen then thawed overnight in the fridge) or lightly baked chicken. He likes a little uncooked lamb's kidney chopped into either meal when I can get it--haven't seen heart(s) on sale in years. Chicken dinners go in one sitting; mince lasts him ages, but since it stays wet for hours he does eventually clean his bowl. When I think of all the expensive pouch-meat I used to throw away on a daily basis, and the days he'd decide out of the blue he didn't like trout or rabbit, this switch is saving us a small fortune in catfood, and my cat seems content. Plus I no longer get nagged every time I go into the kitchen!