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Does raw food digest faster?

   
Hermes

I'm not a cat,- I'm satan!		 
 
Barked: Sun Jan 25, '09 8:43pm PST 
It seems like it does for my friend's cat Buddy (he's with me for a couple of weeks). He's about 9 years old and he's always been a little neurotic about food. Now that he doesn't have kibble around for him all the time, he seems to be on a very accurate timer for food.

What's really bothering me though is that I've noticed that he starts acting like he's hungry again after a couple of hours when I give him food. He weighs 16 lbs but his ideal weight is around 12 or 13 lbs. I've been feeding him a little more than 4 oz. a day (in the 2% range to see if that'll help him lose the extra weight). In order to deal with his yowling in the middle of the night, I've been giving him a stripped chicken leg every night so he can at least feel he's getting a full meal.

I'm just worried that he'll be horribly constipated if i keep on doing this for him and I want to know if anyone else has had to deal with this.

Any advice will be greatly appreciated.
Shade

My name is not- Kittyfloss!
 
 
Barked: Fri Feb 6, '09 1:14pm PST 
Hi Hermes. You know, it might digest faster since it has no fillers or anything!big grin Also, the less fat a meat has in it, the faster it will digest, so chicken probably goes through pretty quickly. I know that my guys sometimes get 3 suppers (like 3pm, 6pm, and before bed). They are 7 month old kittens though, so I'm wondering if they'll grow out of it. Also, I'm wondering if I'm not giving them enough at one time.

Anyway, I guess I wasn't too much help. Good luck!
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Bishop

Mr. ``B``		 
 
Barked: Sun Feb 8, '09 3:55pm PST 
When my cat was on full raw he would walk away full (but I was feeding from 2.5 to 3% of his body weight). Right now I have my cats on half raw and half canned and he is constantly hungry....poor thing. But I am making the switch to raw again so I am hoping this will help with the hunger pangs shrug I will be decreasing his intake to about 2% b/c he is overweight....
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