I use a fish oil in a squirt bottle. However, this last bottle I bought, I suspect was old, as the cats and small dogs won't eat it. So, I've gone back to sticking a needle in a capsule and squeezing it on their food. My Doberman is easy. I put the capsules in her bowl and she just eats them. For the raw diet, I use what's called a prey diet raw which is very simple. 80% muscle meat ( predominantly red meat and heart), %10 bone and %10 organ with that broken down into %5 liver, %5 other organs. I use that as a rough guide and the cats don't need as much bone. You can judge the bone based off stool consistency, bone firms up the stools. Cats are a little harder to convert than dogs, mainly because they can get very sick if you starve them. My cats took to it very easily. I think because they've eaten baby doves and bunnies forever. And the kitten was feral and very young when I started him, maybe 5 weeks, he probably never tasted real cat food. My little dogs are a little fussy but we make concessions. Oh, they also get some cooked or raw eggs, a few times a week, since I give them any broken yokes or cracked eggs. I get my food from a coop and the best deal is that we get marked down red meat from groceries for 50 cents a pound once a week, our "cheap meat" deals. For all the meat I buy, I average about $1.00 a pound but as I start using more of the cheap meat it's getting much cheaper. Feed lots of heart, as it had a lot of Taurine, essential for cats, and I don't think it's as good to peregrine too much as taurine degrades when peregrine. One thing common in cats is tooth resorption. My vet feels its from vitamin D toxicity in commercial cat foods. Both my older cats have bad tooth resorption. Will be interesting to see what my kitten's teeth look like on an all raw diet.

My 7 month old labradoodle recently started having loose stools. It started out watery and really runny, but now it's a bit thicker, but not solid like it was before. He cleared up right after I took him to the vet of course. The vet suggested keeping him on a round of antibiotics and something for diarrhea. He went right back to loose stools while on the meds. I think I have read before that some antibiotics, like Metranodazole can cause diarrhea in dogs. Also don't let your vet give your dog an antibiotic and a probiotic at the same time. The antibiotic will kill off the the good bacteria in the probiotic and you'll be paying for nothing, and possibly doing more harm to your dogs immune system in the long run. An antibiotic course and then a probiotic course would make more sense. I got my dog a new bag of food (same kind/brand etc), no more rawhides, sensitive stomach treats and one-two teaspoons of plain yogurt a day. I'm giving it a week of this treatment and seeing if it clears up. I think he got backed up from too many treats and rawhides in a short period of time.

Ironically when he was having the problems he was eating Natural Balance Duck and Pea because that's what my IBD cat was eating. He was also eating some Wellness canned grain free food because IBD cat was also eating that. So I thought it couldn't be the food because I thought he was eating good food for sensitive intestinal issues. Vet said to switch the food though to any other kind of food. So he is now eating Natural Balance weight reduction food - exclusively - since he also needs to lose some weight. Fortunately he is a good boy and goes in the litter box. When he was having the runs though I would some times see him making a mad dash for the box like he thought he wasn't going to make it in time. And sometimes it looked like he barely made it before he let loose. He doesn't have that problem any more.

TJ's trip coming up soon and they have organic canned available. They have an All-Bran version, just in case…. Unadulterated pumpkin seems awfully unappealing for a baby. Good to know it's available, though. Thanks for checking out the site lukki. I will give more and hopefully, the pumpkin will balance things out. I have a severe PC allergy-if you give me instructions to post a pic, I'll try and if not, my very proficient daughter will do so when she comes home from work.