She said they were foster failures which normally means they were originally placed as fosters but she couldn’t bear to give them up so she adopted them. The rescue no longer owns them she does.
Right SonnysMom. And I never said I could not feed them, was just looking at cutting costs. I also have 10 ferals that needed a barn and they get the grain free kibble too.
Ironically their poop is much better on Friskies than on the American Journey. They are doing quite well and cut my cost in half.
I also foster and the shelter does pay for those costs.
I have a friend who feeds her dogs raw and she also said that making cat food from scratch is not easy and is expensive.
Thanks all.
I feed my 3 Friskies 5oz cans. I split one can between the 3 of them every morning. So a 40 count box would last 40 days, so about 50c a day. For them its just a supplement to their dry food, that’s obviously a lot more economical to feed than canned. Cats have complex nutritional needs so most vets that I’ve heard of don’t advise making your own, but if you really chose to I’d research it heavily.
@Jackie_amp_Starlette American Journey was horrible for mine. I had to switch back to Friskies right away.
I did a homemade diet for a cat with guts that would not respond to gastro diets. I cooked venison and brown rice for him and added a supplement from the vet to ensure he was not getting shorted on taurine.
It was easy enough, but I had friends that hunted, had a large freezer, and more venison roasts with freezer burn than they would ever use. It would have been a hellish expensive experiment if I had had to buy the meat.
The brown rice was an important component for fibre and fill, btw.
Personally don’t find feeding raw terribly expensive. Good canned cat food is expensive too. Making cat food from scratch isn’t hard. If you can follow a recipe you’d be good to go. I like making the raw food because I can just make a big batch and it will last me for quite a while. Then again, I’m only feeding two cats now.
