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AHHH!!! A VULTURE!!!
"Marina" wrote in message ... meeee wrote: Is there any reason why you don't feed them the mince raw? Heating it destroys the taurine in it, which is essential for cats (their bodies don't produc taurine, unlike e.g. humans or d*gs). I heat poultry for the cats, too, though we haven't had salmonella or any other nasties in Finland for years. Just to be safe. You can get taurine and add it to the cat food. I saw it in some pet care books. A health food store I frequented carry taurine supplements for humans. Winnie -- Marina, Miranda and Caliban. In loving memory of Frank and Nikki. marina (dot) kurten (at) iki (dot) fi Stories and pics at http://koti.welho.com/mkurten/ Pics at http://uk.pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/frankiennikki/ and http://community.webshots.com/user/frankiennikki |
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AHHH!!! A VULTURE!!!
i use OE, i guess i ought use plain text more?
wrote in message ... Denise Clere wrote: [-- text/plain, encoding quoted-printable, charset: iso-8859-1, 23 lines --] ;0 Denise, I'm not sure why, but your posts always cause problems in my news reader. Does your news program insert MIME characters into your posts? I guess you're using Google? Maybe there's something on the site that would tell you what's going on. I can't read your posts because of those characters. Joyce |
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AHHH!!! A VULTURE!!!
guess i'm too fond of HTML,i can switch it,i forget some folks seem to
dislike it. "Adrian A" wrote in message ... Monique Y. Mudama wrote: On 2006-03-27, penned: Denise Clere wrote: [-- text/plain, encoding quoted-printable, charset: iso-8859-1, 23 lines --] ;0 Denise, I'm not sure why, but your posts always cause problems in my news reader. Does your news program insert MIME characters into your posts? I guess you're using Google? Maybe there's something on the site that would tell you what's going on. I can't read your posts because of those characters. Joyce Me, too. I can't read those posts. I'm ashamed to admit that I assumed they were spam and ignored them. For some reason most of Denise's posts are HTML, I don't know why, it is very easy to set Outlook Express to post 'Plain Text Only' -- Adrian (Owned by Snoopy and Bagheera) Cats leave pawprints on your heart. http://community.webshots.com/user/clowderuk |
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AHHH!!! A VULTURE!!!
meeee wrote:
Mainly as I was told by several people to NEVER feed raw meat. Possibly because of worms, not sure exactly why. All meat I give them is bought in bulk, then frozen and defrosted in the microwave immediately before cooking. That's very interesting about the taurine. In that case, if it's safe enough, I would prefer feeding it to them raw. In your opinion, considering the immediate freezing/defrosting/consumption, would it be safe to feed raw?? We also have no rabies etc here. Sorry, I don't know what your meat may or may not contain. I know that in some parts of the world pork can contain some bacteria (tricho-something? can't remember the name now) that it doesn't contain here in Finland. Maybe your health authorities have info available on the web or somewhere? Ours does. Oh, speaking of worms, raw fish can have worms. Otherwise, I can't advice you. I feed mine fresh meat (beef and pork), in fact, that is all Miranda will eat - she doesn't recognize cat food as food. -- Marina, Miranda and Caliban. In loving memory of Frank and Nikki. marina (dot) kurten (at) iki (dot) fi Stories and pics at http://koti.welho.com/mkurten/ Pics at http://uk.pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/frankiennikki/ and http://community.webshots.com/user/frankiennikki |
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AHHH!!! A VULTURE!!!
On 2006-03-28, Denise Clere penned:
guess i'm too fond of HTML,i can switch it,i forget some folks seem to dislike it. It's more that our newsreaders can't handle it. I think mine can handle an HTML post that advertises itself as such, but if I recall correctly, it can't handle HTML posts that say they're just plain text. Or something like that. It also wouldn't be hard if clients that used HTML used the minimum amount necessary to do their formatting -- then I could easily read the actual content. But for some reason, auto generated HTML is always ridiculously complicated. -- monique, who spoils Oscar unmercifully pictures: http://www.bounceswoosh.org/rpca |
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AHHH!!! A VULTURE!!!
Denise Clere wrote:
i use OE, i guess i ought use plain text more? You should make plain text the default for usenet, there is no place for HTML in any group. -- Adrian (Owned by Snoopy and Bagheera) Cats leave pawprints on your heart. http://community.webshots.com/user/clowderuk |
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AHHH!!! A VULTURE!!!
"meeee" wrote in message ... -- Mainly as I was told by several people to NEVER feed raw meat. Possibly because of worms, not sure exactly why. All meat I give them is bought in bulk, then frozen and defrosted in the microwave immediately before cooking. That's very interesting about the taurine. In that case, if it's safe enough, I would prefer feeding it to them raw. In your opinion, considering the immediate freezing/defrosting/consumption, would it be safe to feed raw?? We also have no rabies etc here. A friend of mine from another group has to feed her Bengal's a raw diet. One of them cannot tolerate anything else. Do some searching for information on the internet and you will find a lot of information on feeding cats a raw, whole diet. It looks like a lot of trouble to me unless a cat really couldn't eat anything else, but it sounds like you are doing most of the work already anyway. It seems I remember when I was reading about it that you can even buy raw, frozen cat food in some of the pet chains. Just thaw and serve. Jo |
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AHHH!!! A VULTURE!!!
"W. Leong" wrote in message .. . "Marina" wrote in message ... meeee wrote: Is there any reason why you don't feed them the mince raw? Heating it destroys the taurine in it, which is essential for cats (their bodies don't produc taurine, unlike e.g. humans or d*gs). I heat poultry for the cats, too, though we haven't had salmonella or any other nasties in Finland for years. Just to be safe. You can get taurine and add it to the cat food. I saw it in some pet care books. A health food store I frequented carry taurine supplements for humans. Winnie I'm pretty sure the dry food I give them contains added taurine. I'll have to check! -- Marina, Miranda and Caliban. In loving memory of Frank and Nikki. marina (dot) kurten (at) iki (dot) fi Stories and pics at http://koti.welho.com/mkurten/ Pics at http://uk.pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/frankiennikki/ and http://community.webshots.com/user/frankiennikki |
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AHHH!!! A VULTURE!!!
"Jo Firey" wrote in message ... "meeee" wrote in message ... -- Mainly as I was told by several people to NEVER feed raw meat. Possibly because of worms, not sure exactly why. All meat I give them is bought in bulk, then frozen and defrosted in the microwave immediately before cooking. That's very interesting about the taurine. In that case, if it's safe enough, I would prefer feeding it to them raw. In your opinion, considering the immediate freezing/defrosting/consumption, would it be safe to feed raw?? We also have no rabies etc here. A friend of mine from another group has to feed her Bengal's a raw diet. One of them cannot tolerate anything else. Do some searching for information on the internet and you will find a lot of information on feeding cats a raw, whole diet. It looks like a lot of trouble to me unless a cat really couldn't eat anything else, but it sounds like you are doing most of the work already anyway. It seems I remember when I was reading about it that you can even buy raw, frozen cat food in some of the pet chains. Just thaw and serve. Jo Yes, there's plenty of gourmet pet food here, but it's so expensive I'm better off making it myself. I still feed them dry to make sure they are getting everything they need, but they seem to do better when I cook them some food. |
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AHHH!!! A VULTURE!!!
Denise Clere wrote:
guess i'm too fond of HTML,i can switch it,i forget some folks seem to dislike it. I don't dislike HTML on principle or anything. But I use a text-only newsreader, and it doesn't like HTML. It does weird stuff with your posts, asking me if I want to use a "mime reader" to view your post, which I find to be a pain in the butt, so I just end up deleteing them. So if you were to send posts in plain texts, then I would be able to read them! Joyce |
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