cats

We keep our food in the fridge. We have three containers. Two days worth of food (morning and night) is defrosting at any given time. 1 days food in each of the two containers. Once one day is empty, that container is put to wash, and the third container is refilled with another days worth of food. The second container is brought forward for the next day and the third container is put at the back so it has 24 hours to properly defrost. Think stock rotation basically. This keeps the food edible without spoilage. It is always either in the freezer or the fridge. We've never had food go bad. Some of the meats can be a bit pungent (e.g. possum and fish) but never bad. We also occasionally fast them (about once a month) yo replicate times where hunt would be unsuccessful. (Fasting for dogs and cats has similar benefits to humans). They get meaty bones (chicken necks, duck necks, feet, whole fish, possum bones, hare shoulders, rabbit frames, etc) in the mornings. Then a minced meat mix in the evenings. The bones help keep their teeth clean amongst other things. In winter they get slightly less meaty bones as otherwise they put on a bit too much weight. But its very easy to regulate their weight by the amount of meaty bones. Mince amount is always the same. We're in New Zealand and use a local brand (Raw Essentials). Their mince mixtures come in preformed amounts that makes portion sizes easy. Its important to feed a variety of meats through out the week. Its fine just to give chicken based mixtures for 2-3 days and then switch to something like goat for 2-3 days. Just so long as overall there's at least three different meats in different meat types (muscle, bone, organs, etc.) in a week (more variety is better).

Raw Essentials has pretty good info on how to and also can see the types of products they sell if you want to find equivalent in your area: https://www.rawessentials.co.nz/education/raw-feeding/raw-feeding-101

Hope this helps 😊