Am asking this for myself and someone else :) Goldimal I know feeds hers raw and I gather it isnt as straight forward as with dogs. Can anyone give me some information or point me in the dirsction of good books and websites please.

Home-prepared Dog&Cat Diets By Donald R.Strombeck, DVM,PhD is brilliant. I think some of his diets are available online.

Will give you links tomorrow, in a van full of dogs at moment and won't be home until late. :)

That sounds fun van full of dogs ! No problems when ever you have a moment

Had a long day yesterday first going to a show, taking my Malinois pup along to socialise, then driving all the way down to London (as in a 3 hour journey) to pick up an older Papillon pup. :) Along the way acquired agility equipment, crates, beds, a show trolley etc -bit mad day all told LOL.

This link I have found THE most useful and easy to understand:
http://rawfed.com/myths/cats.html
The following are a bit longer, go a bit OTT about "you're killing your cat by not feeding raw" (I don't think scare tactics are the way to go) and are a bit more complicated, but does have plenty of info:
http://www.rawfedcats.org/practicalguide.htm
http://www.catnutrition.org/
http://catinfo.org/

Thanks marianne will get reading. I would love mine to go raw as the dogs have. Been raw since by now five year old gsd was 6months old. Whether the cats will oblige remains to be seen. Quick question do you feed just rrmb and do you add supplements for the cats ?

I feed raw minces from Prize Choice/Natures Menu plus their heart chunks, also chicken wings and the odd chicken carcass when I have any (butcher), and I do add taurine to play safe. I joined an email list (left it again, it was a bit OTT and very American) and they said there you cannot overdose on taurine as any excess is just passed out via the urine, so best to play safe. I didn't go and buy expensive taurine sold for cats though, I bought it from a body building place <grin> which was much cheaper. A £20 bag  lasts me about 4 months and I have lots of cats. :)

Thanks Marianne. I can always ask my son to get the taurine as you say to play safe as it was something that concerned me. Son is into weight lifting so does vaious suppliments ! I will have in sharing the bag with the cats next either that or they will be drinking red bull Lol
On off topi question hope the mods dont mind. Daughter and bf are getting a kitten ( burmese or burmesexbengal  female) currently age 12 weeks. They live in a flat so the intention is that apart from perhaps if they can train it to a harness (??) cat will live in doors what age would you neuter ?

I have 2 kittens on part raw they have the odd tin of Animonda Carny and also Applaws dry food but are mainly raw fed. A mixture of mince from DAF, chunks of heart and turkey and chicken wings drumsticks and thighs. I do add taurine powder and also Denes All in one powder.

I don't plan to carry on feeding tinned and dry once I have finished what I have. How does that sound to you Marianne?

On off topi question hope the mods dont mind. Daughter and bf are getting a kitten ( burmese or burmesexbengal  female) currently age 12 weeks. They live in a flat so the intention is that apart from perhaps if they can train it to a harness (??) cat will live in doors what age would you neuter ?

Some cats like going outside on a harness and I can imagine either of these breeds/cross might well do -it's worth a try. :)

Lots of vets these days neuter at 14 weeks, lots of breeders too -I hate that. Tried it once, poor kitten was traumatised and nearly died.  For my slow maturing breeds I don't see a need to neuter until about 10 months but again for the above breeds they mature quicker, so about 6 months should be about right. Unlike in dogs there is no advantage to leaving it later, although like I said I wouldn't want to have it done much before 6 months.

I don't plan to carry on feeding tinned and dry once I have finished what I have. How does that sound to you Marianne?

Sounds fine. :) You want a mixture of meats and some organs. What I feed mine is chicken, lamb, beef, chicken with liver and then heart. So I get the organ meat from the liver in the chicken/liver mix and the hearts.  I used to feed rabbit but had to stop as the cats just left it, even after months they never took to it properly and too much was wasted. But that's my cats! I found it was important to not feed too much of minces with the bones ground in as it caused constipation, but beef mince seems to loosen them up so to get a perfect stomach I now mix beef with chicken in the same meal -doesn't then bung them up too much OR make them runny.

Thanks for advice I tend to feed mince with bone once a day and chunks of meat tinned fish or canned at the other two meals. One of mine does't care for kidney fussy boy :) I also give wing or drumstick a couple of times a week.

When would you drop to 2 meals they are well grown boys 21 weeks and weighing 2.66 and 2.6Kgs