FAQs

check out our Meal Calc here: https://rawinstinctsmia.com/pages/meal-calc

Get your pets, Age, weight, and activity level- we need this information to calculate how much food your pet is going to need. If you’re just trying to supplement raw this information is also necessary.

For Pet’s activity level if your cat or dog is just a normal house pet use the lowest activity level, if your pet goes on a total of 1.3-2hrs a day outside use moderate activity. 

Head to our meal calc put all the information on our calculator and it will give you what you need for 100% raw feeding

The chart underneath (meal calc) gives you an estimate of what it would look like for your cat or dog to feed per week.

Now that you know what it would take to feed your cat or dog per day and per week you can now decide what % of raw food you would like to feed your pet.

We recommend starting with the protein that your pet currently has on the menu. Check your dry food, canned food, or cooked food ingredients and see if it’s chicken, beef, or salmon based. If your pet’s food is chicken based then I would recommend starting with chicken and turkey. If your pet’s food is beef then I would recommend starting with our beef. 

After they have gotten acquainted with the texture of the raw food and you monitor the stool and they like the food. 

Then you can start adding in new variety. I like to say at the beginning of raw feeding start with the basics like Beef, Beef & Salmon, Chicken, Turkey, or Pork. (if they have allergies I don’t recommend doing any of our poultry mixes) If you go with our novel proteins and they have never had raw before they most likely will not like it as novel proteins have a more gamey taste making it even weirder for your pet as a first-time raw feeder. A couple of months down the line then of course you can try our other blends like goat or venison.

Allergies have to do a lot with your pet’s being flared up inside, raw pet food helps with anti-inflammatory benefits. I recommend starting with our Beef and Salmon or our Duck, Turkey, and Pollock. Both of these have fish that have Omega-3s which helps reduce allergy symptoms. Along with either one of these, we recommend adding in either bone broth or goat milk which has a great amount of pro and pre-biotics that also help provide aid to your pet’s allergy symptoms.

If your pet has Poultry allergies: please start with our Beef & Salmon 

If your pet has Beef allergies: please start with our Novel proteins like Rabbit, Venison, or Lamb. 

Once you notice changes in your pet you should be safe to start rotating other proteins. We like to make sure to always recommend variety in your pet’s diet.

GI issues have to do a lot with your pet’s microbiome, but luckily raw pet food helps heal your pet’s microbiome. I recommend starting with our Beef and Salmon meal with beef green tripe that helps soothe your pet’s gastrointestinal issues and either bone broth or goat milk that has a great amount of pro and pre-biotics that also help provide aid to your pet’s GI.

Once you notice changes in your pet you should be safe to start rotating other proteins. We like to make sure to always recommend variety in your pet’s diet.

YES! During the first 6 months of your pet’s life, their requirements change monthly. After the first 6 months they change every 2months and then once they reach 1 year and ½ then they can be fed the same till the end of time. This although can change based on activity level. For example, if your pet is a working pet their caloric needs are much higher than a dog at home with daily walks.

Yes, our food is made for Cats and Dogs.

And for all life stages.

We always recommend to supplement your pets meals.

Yes, raw food can be fed as soon as your pup or kitten is weaned off its mom.

No, it’s never too late to start raw feeding. Although older pets cats or dogs might be accustomed to their food and it might take a little patience on your part to get them to eat raw food. Before starting raw I recommend with older pets to start by hydrating their bowl, you can do this by adding bone broth, Keifer, or goat milk and see how they do with that. Then start adding in some raw after since the texture of raw food is completely different than dry foods by adding in some hydration they will get used to the texture and approach raw foods with a more open mind.

Cats have a requirement for taurine. Although our meals are high in protein, we recommend adding eggs, and other treats that can be used as a topper high in taurine. This can be smelts, anchovies, or beef hearts. All are high in taurine and great supplements to your cat’s diet.

What a great question! My top 3 suggestions are always Eggs, Beef Green Tripe, and some extra hydration you can do bone broth, goat milk, or Keifer. I’ll throw in an extra one being some fish we have a variety of fish options in our treat/toppers section. You don’t have to feed these in 1 sitting you can rotate them throughout the week. Remember we want to balance your pets meals over time.

A topper is a treat that can be used on top of the raw food or can be used as a treat. That’s why we call them toppers or treats.  Due to our treats being single-ingredients their health benefits are many.

I recommend:

Perfectly Rawsome & The Raw Storm

No, our food does not go through HPP Processing.

No, none of our food has any denatured animals.

woah! this is a loaded question get ready for a long response.

In short according to AAFCO guidelines NO our meals to not meet their "requirements." AAFCO guidelines are built for processed foods where companies need to synthetically add nutrients since they are selling dead nutrient product. Even raw companies that sell "complete" meals have to add synthetic nutrients to be able to meet AAFCO guidelines. So our meals do not meet AAFCO guidelines due to there being NO additives.

Now, if you're a raw feeder or new to raw feeding complete might mean a lot of different things to a lot of different people.

There are many types of raw feeder categories so we like to say our blends are the baseline.

Prey model raw is 80% muscle meat, 10% bone 10% organs (5% of that liver)

Its the purest baseline and you as a pet parent choose how you want to supplement if you believe your pet needs veggies add veggies, if you believe your pet needs fish add fish ect...

That being said,

There is NO such thing as a complete meal because all animal proteins have different nutrients percentages and vitamins so there is not one animal protein that will meet all your pets needs if fed with no additives. This is why it's so crucial to rotate different proteins in your pets diet.

Focus on balancing your pets meals over time and NOT daily.

We like to call our blends baseline because if you just feed our blends without anything else your pet might be deficient in the following:

• Zinc : Raw Eggs, Keifer, Goat Milk and Meat products
• Magnesium: Goat Milk, Fish
• Manganese: Bone Broth, Mussels, Beef Green Tripe, Fur or feathers.
• Iodine: Eggs, anything from the sea like fish, mussels, oysters, dairy products, kelp, liver and real salt we love Edmunds a great source of iodine naturally.
• Vitamin E: Found in Fish like Salmon
• Vitamin D: Eggs, Fish or Mushrooms
• Omega-3: Grass Fed Animals, Eggs or mushrooms.

Please don't let this overwhelm you this is something you do not need to feed daily as long as you rotate items throughout the week you're fine. If you read through the list one more time you can see that these can be hit with just the top 4 things I always say to supplement with.

Eggs, Fish toppers, goat milk or bone broth and tripe.

Also why I love recommending our Beef and Salmon or our Duck, Turkey and Pollock blend.

We also have supplements on our extras page if you rather just scoop something to your pets raw food.

The beef we source is grass fed but not grass finished.

No need, our food is ready-to-serve! All you need to do is to weight out your pets serving size. You can serve it directly from the fridge or add a touch of hot water if your dog or cat prefers warm food. If you are not ready to use our food keep in the freezer till you are ready to feed.

Yes! our food is made of all life stages.

Yes! our food is made for all life stages of your pet.