From Scottish Owl Centre
It was time to check the Long-eared Owl nest box to ring/band the owlets today. Little dude has attitude!
From Scottish Owl Centre
It was time to check the Long-eared Owl nest box to ring/band the owlets today. Little dude has attitude!
I wouldn’t have though cats eating bones would have been a hard thing to look up, but after a few different queries, all I get is from stuff about people trying to give a raw diet to housecats. As they’re 100% carnivores, I’m sure they’re designed to handle whatever they would eat purposefully, but it would be nice to have more details.
That reminds me, I heard someone “donated” a case of vegan dog food the other day, whatever that is. I didn’t get a chance to check it out.
I love hotdogs, despite their reputation. After having about a quarter million as a kid, it’s just too late to worry about their contents at this point! 😄
The animals that aren’t on formula all eat ambient temp food as far as I’ve seen thus far. I’m just happy if someone actually bothered to thaw out prey items for me, I usually have to thaw them myself and it takes forever soaking them in water and flipping and separating them and all that to try to speed it up. Some animals have the precise weight of the food recorded, and since they swallow it whole, I have to make sure it’s flexible, so I’ve got to thaw the whole bag to make sure I can get something appropriate for the specific animals.
In the wild, they’ll eat cached or found found, so most don’t require it to be so particular. We do accommodate if they’re picky eaters though, like with the pregnant opossum that wouldn’t eat the raw eggs, only scrambled.
Tbf, I don’t want them raw either, especially nowadays.
I found something but the always playing kitten cleared all my browsing history. Anyway, the page said the bones are small enough to crush and gives needed calcium and strengthens teeth. The biggest issue is roundworm and toxoplasmosis.
Kitty didnt want you paying attention to other cats? 😁
That was much the extent I saw too, it was mainly from blogs or vendors though, so I had been hoping for something with some more credentials. Lots said chicken neck bones were good for size, digestibility, and as a source of collagen.
She doesn’t want me paying attention to anything. I was speaking with my progeny recently about how if she’s not eating or sleeping, she’s in my lap, or on my chest, and how a rescue center for wilds requires feeders to wear masks of the animals they handle. Imprinting is real.
The bunny babies don’t get handled any more than necessary for how delicate they are. The lady that handles them dropped 3 off in a nice field the other week, and she was saying she stopped back and did a “hey bunny bunny!” and one came hopping out to see her. I think they were calling it a Snow White Moment, when you call and the wild animals you took care of recognize you and come check you out. 😇