hey friends it's jess and Jericho and if I could feed only one type of cat food it would be whole
prey why because it's natural it's what they were born to eat it's what they choose to eat in the
wild and it provides everything that they need including teeth brushing crunching and chewing
and mental stimulation Jericho currently eats a whole prey Quail that I cut up and spread out
among the wheat and some day old peeps which includes chicken duck and turkey this didn't
happen overnight it actually took me five years to get here but I can get you there faster because we
can learn from what I've already done what worked didn't work so first things first you gotta has
to be eating raw gonna be the first step it's going to be difficult to go from kibble straight
to whole prey because your cat isn't going to know what the whole prey is even if he's eating
raw like the first time I gave Jericho a whole Mouse he wanted to play with it even though he
had been eating raw for years before that so I have other videos that go deep into switching
your cat to raw and I also have ebook link that in the description below but basically your first
step would be to feed your cat at scheduled meal times if you're feeding wet food you might already
be doing this but the next step would be to add some fresh food Toppers help your cat get used
to eating better quality ingredients that's an easier step than going all in on raw or homemade
because it's a small amount so you don't have to go through the trouble of getting a recipe
putting it all together or ordering raw online just start with some fresh fruit Toppers that
you can get at the grocery store The Next Step would be to replace your cat's treats so ditch
those crunchy treats that they're addicted to and instead use freeze-dried raw meat or dehydrated
meat like turkey thigh liver anything like that so you're going to replace the treats get rid of
those carbs and that'll help get your cat used to eating better quality ingredients then the
next step is to upgrade the food if you're feeding kibble I would try freeze-dried raw not dehydrate
it first just pretend that it's dry food and then gradually increase the amount of freeze-dried raw
gradually decrease the amount of kibble and then slowly rehydrate it so that your cat gets used to
that mushy texture and then go to raw or you could go from kibble to wet to raw or if you're already
feeding wet food you can go from wet wet food to Raw I would suggest a commercially available
already complete brand first just because again that's easier to portion and serve than putting
together an entire recipe and you know doing all that work so get your cat to Raw put some links
in the description below to help you with that I also introduced whole carcass grinds
to Jericho so he was eating crowned raw already then I found some whole carcass grinds of quail
and mouse and you can get whole carcass crimes of quail from here today raw feeding Miami real
meal pet food and Savage cat food again I'll put links in the description below there's also some
discount points and coupon codes and everything so check the description and you can shop around to
see what works best for you so getting Jericho to whole prey I started with pinky mice they're tiny
like the name pinky is true to its size they're very very small because I wanted him to get used
to chewing and and actually like chewing on his food because he was eating ground raw and that was
it no rotting raw meaty bones or anything like that at the time so I got pinky mice from here
today now this horse from Layne Labs which is a breeding facility and then and they only have
the one pinky mice and adults so what I did was I bought from rodent Pro which has multiple sizes of
mice so you can get the pinkies and then like each step up growing in size up to adult now the pro
is that you have the upgrades of different sizes but the con that I would say or I don't feed mice
anymore because they come from breeding facilities so it's like even if they have access to clean air
and light and food and clean bedding it's still not a natural habitat and I don't personally know
what they feed them because on the website it just says scientifically proven diet and we all
know that we can find the very same copy on these vet recommended brands that aren't that great so
I just kind of tossed with it for a little while and then decided that it wasn't for me anymore so
that's why I don't feed mice anymore but what you want to do is is up to you give me a finely thumbs
up if this is helpful so far so more cat parents that want to feed their cats better can find this
video thank you rodent Pro also has the baby quail like the day old baby quail and so does hare today
but again they're both breeding well here today is sources from a breeding facility now like I
mentioned before Jericho just wanted to play with an adult Mouse the first time I gave it to him
even though I worked my way up from the babies so if I was doing it all over again I wouldn't even
bother getting the babies and gradually growing up from there I would just get the adult and cut it
into a couple of pieces that way the some of the organs and the blood is exposed so that your cat
recognizes that as food that's what I had to deal with when I gave him the whole mouse or the other
thing that I did was smear some of his ground Raw on top so that gets him licking and in the eating
habit and then all of a sudden he just starts crunching down on it raw feeding Miami also has
baby quail chicks and they have the day old peeps so if I was starting over that's what I would go
with first cut it up maybe into three pieces so that it's smaller small enough so that your cat
isn't going to swallow it whole but you know large enough so that he would bite on it and then or you
could smear the ground Raw on top that's what I would do if I was starting over so from raw
feeding Miami they have the baby chicken they have Goose chicks pheasant chicks they also do have
fuzzy mice the pinky rabbits they're pretty large compared to baby day old peeps so you definitely
will have to cut those up and raw feeding Miami says that they Source local farms so that's why
I prefer that than the breeding facilities and if you use my link in the description you'll get 10
off your first order another one that I mentioned here today like I said it is from a breeding
facility Lane labs in California and sometimes they source from rodent Pro so they have the day
old Quail which are about a quarter of an ounce they're very tiny chicks about the same size as
raw feeding Miami then the pinky mice and the pinky rats and they also have the pinky rabbit
another option is real meal pet food so I actually just got the whole Quail they're adults and I also
got the day old Peeps and their website says the day old peeps could be chicken turkey or duck
sometimes they varied it out and it also says that they're from local farms I actually gave Jericho
his first duckling I got all ducks when I ordered it that's just what came to me I gave Jericho his
first duckling the other day it's funny because I was portioning out his food he sees the duckling
on the plate and he's sniffing at it like he's very interested then when I give it to him the
next morning he's sniffing it doesn't really know what to do with it so even though he's been eating
whole prey he still didn't really recognize what it was because he's never had it before so I ended
up sprinkling some of his treats on top he has dehydrated beef spleen which is very very powerful
smell so I crunch that up and sprinkle it on top of the duckling and then he went to town and he
ate it had to head to feet that's another thing that you can do is if your cat isn't really into
it what I did with Jericho you know sometimes with those Quail legs there's a lot of feathers so now
I trim the feathers but back then if there was a lot of feathers he wouldn't really like want
to go for it so I would just break off a piece of one of his treats let him smell it first and
then put it on top of the leg and then he'll start licking and start eating and then he'll get into
that eating habit and that's a really great great way to entice your cat to eat it to get him into
that habit eating habit and then once he eats it a few times he'll be used to it and he'll recognize
it as food there's also a Savage cat they're over on the west coast they have a dog hole
quail and these are large it does say that it's raised locally in Southern Cali but it doesn't
specify if it's a farm or not but the other meats on their website do specify so again and there's
links in the description below but until then you can get your cats a raw watching this playlist
right over meow specifically for beginners it has everything you need to know thanks for watching