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Shaz
Lv 4
Shaz asked in PetsCats · 1 decade ago

Kitty Feeding Areas?

I'm a little perturbed. Why must both of them take the chunks of raw meat out of their bowl and onto to the carpet to eat them?

Isn't the lino in the kitchen good enough for them? When I give them canned food, the bowl is fine with them.

Update:

I'm slowly weaning them on to raw meat and following the guidelines of the raw fed kitty site http://groups.yahoo.com/group/rawcat/ so I make sure they're getting the right nutrients :)

Update 2:

I find they prefer raw - I had one bowl full of canned food and they other had raw kangaroo steak in it - they both wanted the steak and left the canned food.

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  • goddessdawnie
    1 decade ago
    Favorite Answer

    LOL Welcome to the world of the cat. I don't know any cat that doesn't do the same thing. I believe the only reason the bowl is OK for the canned, is because it's too hard for them to pick up!

    The only reason I can think of WHY they do it is as the old instinct of dragging their prey to a safe place before eating it. All I know is that they ALL do it, and I've not yet found a way to train them out of it.

    My cat even drags the canned out of his bowl before eating it -- but he's OK with the tabletop, he has his own disposable tablecloth to eat on! My other cat dips everything she eats in her water bowl, and leaves it there half the time.

    I'd suggest that, if you really want to feed them chunks of raw meat, watch them while they eat -- so you can pick up the leftover chunks rather than stepping in them later (eww!)

    You can probably sit in the doorway to the kitchen while they eat, and they may keep it in there rather than take the chunks past you. Or try a little area rug (carpet scrap, blanket, towel) near their food dish, maybe they'll be satisfied with that!

    Source(s): Kitty-sperience!
  • old cat lady
    Lv 7
    1 decade ago

    My cats eat their raw meat from their plates. It is ground meat so cats may react differently to "chunks".

    I know if you give a kitten a chopped up chicken wing - raw and with bone - they will growl over it and want to take it away from the feeding area.

    I hope you are balancing out your cats' diet with the right amount of calcium if they are not eating the raw with bone. The calcium/phospohorus ratio must be right as the meat chunks themselves would mean your cats are getting too much phosphorus.

  • Malia
    Lv 7
    1 decade ago

    I don't think you should be feeding cats raw meat. I was told not to from my vet. But sometimes cats have trouble chewing big chunks of stuff. And also, what's the shape of your bowl? Is it circular? And if it's tall all around it may be hard for the cat to reach his face in the bowl so he quickly reaches in with his mouth and takes it out to continue chewing. Try oval bowls which are better shaped for their faces. Or square bowls. Bowls with low sides so they can get to the food easier.

  • grabber21
    1 decade ago

    Maybe its some primal thing where the cat has to take the meat away from the site of the kill to hide it from others who would steal it. By the way, is it safe to feed a cat raw meat?

  • x_foxgirl_x
    1 decade ago

    are you raising lion cubs?? why are you feeding them chunks of raw meat?? lol

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