this superfood is high in protein and has moderate fat perfect for cats it also has
a really great calcium and a phosphorus ratio and matches a mouse perfect for cats it has an acidic
pH perfect for cats omega-3 and omega-6 fatty acids perfect for cats and naturally occurring
probiotics and digestive enzymes again perfect for cats it's completely perfect
except for the smell and I'm talking about stinky green tribe it's so stinky so what is Green Stripe
just in case you don't know it is the stomach lining the chambers of the stomach lining of
ruminating animals so that includes cow sheep deer mainly the animals that chew the cud meaning they
regurgitate their food and then bring it back down and digest it again you may have seen tripe at the
grocery store and it's completely white that means that it's been bleached cleaned bleached
and scalded and that is not the same as green tripe so green tripe that you buy from raw Pet
Food suppliers will still contain the pre-digested plant material in in the tripe so that's why it
stinks but it's full of nutrients and again it is a superfood so if you can stomach the smell
I highly highly recommend feeding it to your cat do cats even like green stripe well I would say
that the smell could be a good smell attractant if you're trying to get your cat to eat new food
can also help with the transition considering that it has the probiotics and enzymes Jericho really
likes it he takes a big whiff of it and then he eats it I don't know how it is really stinky you
could try freeze-dried green dried first because I've noticed that it doesn't smell as much as the
raw like frozen ground green tripe I have used it as a smell attractant with my mom's four cats so
they might smell their food and then they're like man I don't know if I want to eat it so then I'll
take freeze-dried raw green tripe let them smell it and then sprinkle it over the food and then
they smell the tripe and then they start going to town on their food so the nutritional benefits are
really great the moisture content is the same as a mouse about 70 percent which is great obviously
cats need high moisture food a mouse provides about 50 to 60 percent protein on a dry matter
basis which means when you remove the moisture from the food then you can actually Compare Foods
properly because dry food and wet food have very very significant changes in moisture contents so
a mouse 50 to 60 percent protein on a dry matter basis whereas green tripe has about 55 protein on
a dry matter basis so it's right in the middle of what a mouse would provide which is perfect
a mouse is between 18 and 20 percent fat on a dry matter basis so typically that's why I say
when you're looking at cat foods it's good to have about half the amount of fat compared to protein
because that's exactly what a mouse provides now green tripe is much higher in fat it's about 30
percent fat on a dry matter basis but that's fine because fat is a great source of energy
and you wouldn't only feed Green Stripe this is just a small part of your casserole diet the
calcium and phosphorus ratio is really great guess Jericho doesn't want to talk about green tripe it
also provides B vitamins and arachidonic acid and cats have a higher requirement for those nutrients
it's also a great source of Manganese I think that feeding green tripe is the best way to mimic the
cat eating the stomach contents of prey because if you think about it they eat the entire prey and
mice rats Birds primarily their diet is vegetation so they're going to eat their food their plants
and then either digest it or pre-digested some of that's still going to be in the stomach and in the
intestines and the cat eats the entire prey so he's going to take in some of those pre-digested
plant materials now the key here is that it's pre-digested he's not the cat isn't eating raw
veggies it's eating the stomach contents and the intestines of the pre-digested plant material
and the green tribe is technically the same thing it's this the lining of the stomach Chambers that
would contain some of that pre-digested plant material that the cow or the sheep or the goat
Etc would eat so how to feed you might be thinking well if green tripe is so beautiful and so perfect
minus the smell can I feed only that to my cat and I would say no you know variety is key cats in the
wild eat five to seven different proteins so they don't just stick to one thing and additionally
like I said it's this it's basically to mimic the stomach contents of the prey which is just
a small amount so when you're feeding green tripe as part of your raw cat food diet it fits under
the muscular tissue muscular organ category so the muscle meat the bulk of the diet that muscle meat
category but you don't want to do that entire 83 to 85 percent muscle meat just green tripe so I
I would say you know stick to a smaller percent of that within the muscular organ category along with
heart and lung and tongue those kind of muscular organs Jericho eats around one ounce per week and
that's split between the days and so this is about four percent of his diet but I'm probably going to
increase this as I adjust his diet I'm adding new ingredients all the time but green shrimp has been
part of his diet for a really long time if you're feeding green trip as treats like freeze-dried raw
green tripe I would say stick to around 20 and that just is across the board with all with all
treats so up to 20 that's the max that you want to feed of like what you're feeding each day
from treats and you want to make sure that you're including that amount in your cat's
total daily intake of food because you don't want to over feed your cat because even if
it's healthy feeding too much food can lead to weight gain so where to buy raw green tripe
the places that I'm familiar with is Hare today although I've never purchased green tripe from
them before because they sell out really quickly but Jericho did eat before he was eating more of
a Whole Foods diet he was eating their ground beef bones and organs which also includes tripe
in that mix so he has had that but not just not their product that's only grain tripe the place
that I currently buy from is raw feeding Miami now Hare today is on Susan Thixton's 2023 list
human grade quality raw feeding Miami is not but a note about green tripe technically green
tripe with all of the plant material in it would never be considered human grade quality because
the tripe at the grocery store is completely cleaned out it's bleached it's scalded washed
and and all of that so none of the nutritional benefits basically that cats need are in the
trip that you find at the grocery store so whether it's human grade or not like it's it's the green
stripe that we feed to our cats will never be of human grade quality because humans don't consume
green tripe they consume white tripe I have also tried feline Naturals freeze-dried raw green tripe
used to give it to Jericho also tested it with my mom's cats they really liked it that's the
one that I used as the smell attractant I will note though that feline Naturals food is not
on Susan Thixton's list either just putting it out there and you know I did say moving
forward I only want to talk about brands that are actually proven human grade quality but those are
the brands that I'm familiar with and I get the frozen raw green tripe from raw feeding Miami
and don't really do the freeze-dried raw treats anymore and you can check out this raw cat food
playlist for beginners to get your cat adjusted to his new raw food diet thanks for watching