all right so this is our order from hare today
jericho's mice
here we go
let's see what we got jericho what did we get?
what is it Jericho?
so we have adult mice sampler
and some pinky mice get a baby place jericho come here
and whole carcass ground mouse
hey friends it's jess and jericho we're in the kitchen today
here to teach you how to feed your cat better.
so i get asked a lot "what do you feed your cat"?
i'm going to portion out jericho's food and explain what's necessary and why while i do it.
this is the simplest way to make raw cat food with no grinder
i've been doing it this way since 2019. so right now jericho is eating whole carcass
ground mouse mixed with nutritional supplements.
i also give him specific treats for additional nutrients and i'll explain those later.
so this is hare today if you don't want to feed mice you certainly don't have to.
you can get ground turkey bones organs, ground duck bones and organs,
ground beef bones and organs, and ground chicken bones and organs.
just to name a few proteins.
and then under nutritional supplements you would get alnutrin and fish oil.
you can also use their raw food feeding calculator to put in your animal's weight
the percent that you want to feed.
and then you can use this budget calculator down below.
choose your products and then it'll calculate the
cost that you're going to spend per day, per week, and per month.
so these are alnutrin nutritional supplements that you mix with ground meat bones and organs.
and it includes egg yolk powder which provides protein and essential amino acids.
taurine which is water soluble and absolutely necessary for your cat's health.
and the rest of the ingredients are vitamins and minerals that might be
either too low or missing from the ground meat bones and organs mix.
i also put extra taurine. as i mentioned taurine is essential to your cat's health.
jericho's walking all over my setup.
taurine is essential for your cat's eye health, his heart health,
his brain, his nerves, his immune functioning, reproduction and growth.
essentially everything that your cat needs to survive. and in fact
without taurine cats would die.
taurine is water soluble so any excess will just flush out in the urine.
so it's better to add extra than not have enough.
you can visit al nutrition's website knowwhatyoufeed.com and they list
the country of origin of all of their ingredients.
hare today works for me because i've been paying customers since 2019.
jericho likes everything that i buy from them. they have a ton of variety which is great.
and you can earn discount points on all of your purchases. you can also share a
referral link with friends and family and then you get points when they purchase.
and they have a lot of raw feeding information on their website
so i know that they are legit and they care about your cat.
if you don't feed freeze-dried minnows or any other type of fish
you would add fish oil supplements at the time of feeding the food.
whenever i portion jericho's food i put saran wrap down.
i wear gloves, i use a digital scale and a stainless steel plate to weigh everything.
portion it out into daily servings which i store in glass jars.
i thaw jericho's meat in a glass container in the refrigerator for 24 hours before i need it.
since i have two pounds right here i'm going to add half a cup of filtered water
then i'm going to add..
this is what the supplements look like and it comes with a scoop.
since i have two pounds i'm going to add jericho's helping me today
i'm going to add two level scoops worth into the water.
additionally i'm going to add half a scoop
of tarine and the instructions for both are on the packs.
so then i give the supplements a little whisk in the water.
and then mash the meat up.
jericho's walking on the saran wrap and then he's flicking his paws around
because he doesn't like the texture.
some of the meats are a little bit more watery than others so you can always decide whether
you want to add a quarter of a cup per pound or half a cup per pound you'll just have to test.
i found that chicken if you get one pound of chicken meat bones and organs it's a little
bit more watery so with chicken i'll add a quarter of a pound or excuse me quarter of a cup of water.
but with turkey it's a little drier so i'll typically add half a cup of water.
with the mouse i add quarter of a cup of water per pound so half a cup total.
jericho you're in the way.
so i just mixed it up good and make sure that it's all mixed and broken up.
turn on the digital scale put on the plate oh wait i have to change it to ounces.
tare it out to zero.
stop eating it.
and jericho eats about five ounces a day.
so i just get as close to five without going too much over
if he gets a little extra he gets a little extra.
put it into the glass jars.
and then that goes in the freezer.
so i just portioned out jericho's food and here's everything in the freezer.
i also included some whole mice that's right there right there.
so usually two pounds of food without the mice lasts one week.
with the mice they're a little less than one ounce so that isn't really the entire meal.
so with the mice i have one two three four five six seven,
there's one in the refrigerator for tomorrow so eight days worth of food.
and then this one has like half a day's worth of food in it.
jericho gets nice little pinky mice as a snack healthy crunchy treat.
i hide freeze-dried pieces of green tripe and freeze-dried minnows on jars for jericho to hunt
around the apartment.
where is it where is the jericho here.
hunting for treats great for stimulation.
hmm.
I get green tripe and minnows both are freeze dried.
they're from raw paws pet food. i'm an affiliate so in the past i've received free products
but after those free products ran out i bought these.
and i feed green tripe for the probiotics, digestive enzymes,
its essential fatty acids, protein, great calcium to phosphorus ratio.
this is what it looks like.
so green tripe is the unwashed unclean lining of the stomach and it's from ruminate animals.
which is cow sheep lamb well lamb is baby sheep goats basically grass grazing four-legged animals.
they have four stomach chambers that help them digest the plant matter.
and the green tripe is typically one or two of the linings of those stomach chambers.
so it includes all of the pre-digested plant matter and that's where all the essential
fatty acids, probiotics, digestive enzymes, and all that come come from.
do not use white tripe that you find at the grocery store.
that's been bleached and scalded for human preference. it's not for cats and dogs.
it offers very little nutritional value. it's bleached, scalded,
chemically treated, all of that.
so green tripe the green refers to the fact that is unwashed not chemically treated etc
and if you're buying from grass-fed ruminant animals so if it says grass-fed beef grass-fed
goat then you know that you're going to have those essential fatty acids omega-3 and omega-6.
and minnows that's another great omega 3 and 6 fatty acid.
here's one of them dana dana no jericho come back look up here come look.
they smell.
come on up here there you go.
so omega-3 and omega-6 has to be epa and dha the plant-based version of these acids is ala.
the cats cannot convert ala into the versions that they need epa and dha.
the prey does the work for them.
so cats eat herbivores like rodents and small mammals.
the prey does the conversion from the plant-based version to what they cats need.
so since they eat the stomach contents of the prey they're getting the correct version epa and dha.
since the prey does the conversion for the cat the cat lost the ability to do this conversion.
so we need to provide epa and dha not plant-based fatty acid oils.
so i like to feed both just to give variety
and with the green tripe you get the probiotics, digestive enzymes, extra protein and all of that.
and omega 3 and 6 fatty acids specifically epa and dha
good for the immune system, brain function, and really great for the skin and coat.
they also regulate inflammation.
you can buy probiotics and digestive enzymes supplement powders if you want.
green tripe is very stinky but these freeze-dried green tripes actually don't don't smell that bad.
the minnows smell worse you know it's that strong fishy smell.
if you're not feeding freeze-dried fish
or a fish type of treat then you would have to supply fish oil supplements to the diet.
and that's if you're making it at home like i did before with hare
today ground meat bones and organs and the alnutrin nutritional supplements.
you need those fish oil supplements for the epa and dha.
a lot of people ask me "what do i feed my cat"? "what do you think about this cat food brand"?
and it's difficult for me to test every single cat food brand because
cats are very sensitive to dietary changes.
so although i rotate proteins and and rotate brands i stick to the same brands
pretty much the same you know couple of brands like hare today raw paws pet food.
so like i said i can't test every single cat food brand.
if these don't work for you, if this routine doesn't work for you,
then i suggest learning how to read cat food labels properly.
that way you can find something that does work for you and for your cat.
and even if these do work for you i still recommend
learning how to read cat food labels properly.
because education is the best tool that you have
and at the end of the day you are responsible for your cats so you have to make this decision.
and you know your cat best so you know what's going to work for your cat.
additionally every living situation is different.
i only have jericho. my mother has four cats so she rotates between freeze-dried raw
and then some other wet food brands that i recommend on my website.
i'll leave a link in the description below of all of the cat food brands that i recommend
based on my experience with jericho, working with cats, and with my mother.
thanks for watching!