Thread: Raw Food in Conjunction with Dry

Hi All

I have a twelve week old MC who was ill for a few days and that made me start thinking more carefully about his diet. He is on Royal Canin Baby Cat and Royal Canin MC Kitten but I did supplement that in the mornings and evenings with kitten pouches or tinned food.

I started looking at the ingredients in the tinned food and pouches and saw that the majority was animal or protein derivative and contained preservatives and flavourants. I came to the conclusion that if I was eating protein derivatives I would not be getting the vitamins I needed and that in that case, I could not expect that for kitten.

I am very reluctant to go raw food all the way as I have heard that even bad commercial food is better than an unbalanced raw food diet. At the moment he is getting chicken on the bone, beef mince and chicken liver (but only rarely because it is very rich). I sometimes mix the beef mince with a kitten pouch for him. He has access to his RC dry food all day and he still eats this.

I was wondering whether what I am doing at the moment is a correct approach or if there is something I am doing very wrong by mixing both types. Ideally I want to have the benefits of raw food but also to have a balanced diet which I hope he is getting from the dry food.