I am interested in switching to a natural diet, but due to misinformation
when the fuzz were babies, I've only fed kibble and are they ever
imprinted!  They do not recognize any type of meat as food.  I have
gotten them to eat the soup made of a/d, heavy cream, and baby food,
but only after alot of patooeying and messy seringe feedings.  If they
don't get it every day it starts over.  I could not get them to sit
still for Bob Church's Gravy at all!  (I'll try it again, though.  Great
lecture series on bone, sir!)
 
What are the dangers, if any, to switching them "cold turkey" to a
natural prey diet?  (Consisting of frozen chicks and mice and fresh
killed mice)
 
Even if I don't switch them completely how do I go about getting them to
recognize a mouse as a treat?  Should I try a fresh killed first or live?
I'm a little squeemish about putting a whole mouse in the blender to try
to trick them into thinking it's soup and the idea that they might not
see a mouse as prey and the poor thing would die of stress instead of a
killing bite distresses me.
 
My Timmy has IBD and only eats Iams Lamb and Rice formula, he's also
insulinomic, what kind of fresh meat treats can I try with him?
 
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Lisa
Fuzzies Frank, Pikachu, Godiva and Timmy and the Beige Kitty
 
"We are led, when we share our loves, to an enchanted life of inner
happiness, which unsharing others cannot know."
Antonius Ferret, Fables
Richard Bach, Ferret Cronicles
[Posted in FML issue 4161]