I posted this in the cat forum, but I thought that some of our raw feeders here may know the answer.
Our cat is getting older and now has problems chewing (bad teeth). He's going to have several teeth pulled. Since he can't handle dry food any more and good canned food is insanely expensive, I'd like to switch him to raw.
There's one big problem: obviously, he can't crunch bone. Are there relatively inexpensive grinders or food processers out there that can grind up bones? I'm not trying to process shanks or anything, just a few chicken necks.
Or, how about yogurt? I know it's digestible by both cats and dogs. If I mixed in a healthy dose of yogurt with every meal, would that provide enough calcium? It would be very simple for me to make an easy-to-chew prepared raw diet with ground meats, fish, offal and plenty of yougurt.
Our cat is getting older and now has problems chewing (bad teeth). He's going to have several teeth pulled. Since he can't handle dry food any more and good canned food is insanely expensive, I'd like to switch him to raw.
There's one big problem: obviously, he can't crunch bone. Are there relatively inexpensive grinders or food processers out there that can grind up bones? I'm not trying to process shanks or anything, just a few chicken necks.
Or, how about yogurt? I know it's digestible by both cats and dogs. If I mixed in a healthy dose of yogurt with every meal, would that provide enough calcium? It would be very simple for me to make an easy-to-chew prepared raw diet with ground meats, fish, offal and plenty of yougurt.