Paleo Diet: Raw Paleo Diet and Lifestyle Forum
Raw Paleo Diet Forums => Off Topic => Topic started by: Raw Kyle on April 28, 2009, 07:37:56 pm
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I have a cat and I feed him raw paleo. He doesn't like suet or even fatty pieces of muscle, he usually eats around it. Occasionally he'll eat something fatty but not often. His favorite foods are raw fish and raw red meat. I've been told by neighbors that he sometimes goes around the neighborhood and eats some cat food that people leave out for neighborhood cats.
My question is, do carnivores like cats have a different metabolic way of dealing with protein burning waste? He seems to only like eating lean protein from what I feed him. I have seen him lick at butter before and I have fed him egg yolks, but like I said he doesn't seem interested at all in suet. I tried to cut it up small and put some red meat fluid on it but he still doesn't like it much. I don't think he likes the texture of it, chewing something that soft and sticky.
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*bumpety bump*
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I have two cats. One does eat fat. The other will not. Yes, they metabolize protein differently than us, and their livers work differently and have different needs than us in respect to ammonia. I'm not very familiar with it, but you know cats are famous for eating mice. Mice are low in fat. Humans don't make a mono meal out of mice. Mouse is a whole food to a cat. Cats tend to be 100% carnivores. People tend to be omnivores. I think our constitutions tend to be more like that of a dog or a rat, other omnivores.
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Ya he can obviously take it cause I've had him for about 2 years now and he's been eating a lot of lean meat that whole time. He had heart and muscle from ox yesterday and today, a little more fat than usual as he ate some of the fat stuck on the heart meat.