The things we do for our furry children...

[Magelet]

We feed our kitty raw food, and don't eat pork in the house. (DP will occasionally cook a sausage on foil in the toaster oven, and then eat it with his fingers, when I'm out, other than that, no pork).

Anyways, a 2in by 1 in peice of raw pastured pork liver got dropped on the floor today. Instead of composting it, I took it home for the cat. I just spent 25 minutes trying to break up a very tough piece of pork liver into small peices with my nails with my hands inside a plastic baggie, over a piece of foil, and praising the cat heartily for eating what was the biggest, toughest meat he's had yet. (still transitioning.) I'm so proud of myself and him.

It was kind of comical though.

[blessedwithboys]

ah...glancing at your sig line...do you keep a kosher/halal kitchen? you do love your kitty! i am not opposed to eating pork, but chopping up any kind of raw liver for my dog skeeves me out! LOL

[SoulCakes]

Ugh, I know! Our love for pets makes us go to extremes. Back when I was still getting the hang of the raw-food diet for our cats, I remember thinking that if the cops just happened to knock on our door at that very moment, I'd be immediately arrested. Because my entire kitchen was covered in either blood or pieces of raw muscle from all the chopping, blending, mixing... it was so gross.

I'm glad the raw food thing caught on, and now I don't have to bother with mixing the different meat/bones/vitamins. I can just buy it at the store.

[Magelet]

yeah, i keep kosher. I'm finding feeding him raw pretty easy, not too much chopping, but then he is much smaller than a dog, so it's just a lot less quantity. I can't imagine preping food for say, a newfie, without a much bigger kitchen and a chest freezer.

[greenmagick]

Lol!

Ah but bigger animals can handle bigger chunks of meat. Most cuts I can just give to my dogs whole so very little chopping unless it's something like pork shoulder

[34me]

I had a very similar conversation the other day. Mine was because my pup LOVES to hang his head out the window when we pick my ds up from carpool at 9 at night. Where does the fuzzy love come in? It's been 18f out lately and here I am
with the back windows open!

[Magelet]

wow, that's love :P