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? ===== 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]