What nutrition do I need to consider for a serval kitten?

Question

I am getting one next year and I know they eat raw meat. I am wondering if I should suppliment the diet with a cat food or what...

If anyone owns any exotics or hybrids some info would be great.

Answer 1

Here you go:

http://www.savannahcatbreed.com/savannah...

That has info on servals.

http://www.donamae.com/servals/kittens.h...

Hope that helped.

Answer 2

The diet most commonly recommended is one consisting of raw, bone-in poultry and meat, supplemented with vitamins made for wild felines. I feed a variety of foods, with raw meat, fish, and poultry forming the base of the diet. I supplement this with the Oasis wild feline vitamins and the Oasis calcium supplement, although I have heard very good things about Wild Trax vitamins as well. Some of the foods I give my serval include:



Chicken; quarters, necks, thighs, wings, and ground

Turkey necks and ground turkey

Beef, any cuts as well as ground beef

Rabbit (recently found someone to sell them to me at a reasonable price!)

Fresh fish filets, smelt, tilapia, squid, and mixed seafood

Cooked chicken quarters, with bones removed

Super-premium natural canned cat food

Canned tuna

Canned salmon

Canned Jack mackerel

Snacks and Treats

Cheese

Beef jerky

Cottage cheese

Strawberries

Cherries

Oranges

Bananas

Tomatoes

"Serval tacos;" refried beads, cheese, tomatoes, guacmole, and lettuce

Macaroni and cheese

Servals eat between one and three pounds of meat a day. It is generally regarded as safe to feed raw meat with bones included to servals. While this may go against what many people suggest for domestic animals, consider what these servals eat in the wild. Nobody removes the bones for them! However, it would be dangerous for you to feed cooked meat or poultry with bones in it to your serval (or any animal). When bones are cooked, they become more brittle and can splinter. Here is a website about feeding your future pet: http://www.exoticcatz.com/spservaldiet.h...   I hope this helps?

Answer 3

Wow!  I hope you are ready for what you get!  Servals take a LOT of care and attention (not really them as much as their environment).  I'm sure you know all of that.  

Yes, cat food is appropriate, but not just any cat food.  It needs to be a high end cat food- see link below.  Also, raw meat, llike chicken and ground turkey is a must.  They make really good mousers and will eat rodents and small birds (so if you have any other exotic pets, say fish or birds or ferrets you will have to keep them seperate).  

Good luck with your new pet!

Answer 4

Nope, no need for "cat food". A balanced meat diet is appropriate for all felines... serval, lion, or domestic shorthair.

I personally feed a ground Raw Meat, Bones and Organ based diet to my cats and they are incredibly healthy on it. I HIGHLY recommend it. While scary at first, once I got the hang of it and felt comfortable with it it's a snap to prepare.

Cats are obligate carnivores after all and must derive ALL their nutrients from meat based sources. They are unable to absorb them from any other source. Despite thousands of years of domestication they remain strictly carnivorous. True and honest meat eaters and that is what they need most. Protein from meat!

If you are interested in feeding a raw diet some great places to start learning are http://www.catinfo.org/  , http://www.catnutrition.org/  , and http://www.felinefuture.com/nutrition/  .

If you would like to try raw with your cats and don’t want to get all technical about it but want to try a trusted, time tested and balanced raw diet you can order from http://www.felinespride.com/products/cat...  . I purchased this myself when I first started and my cats loved it!

Another premade Raw you can try is Natures Varity. I personally have never used this but know many people that do and it’s pretty easy to find http://www.naturesvariety.com/content.la...

Here's a bunch of websites to help you learn what you need to know.

www.catinfo.org/

www.catnutrition.org/

www.rawfedcats.org/

www.felinespride.com/

www.felinefuture.com/

www.felineinstincts.com/

www.raisingcatsnaturally.com/

www.blakkatz.com/

www.holisticat.com/

http://www.goldcoastragdolls.com/MyOwnCa...

Answer 5

oh woo wooo woooo..

what a world.........

I hope all you guyz above questioner and answerer spare a moment and also think about that there are ppl in this (your own) world who doesnt have anything in the name of food to eat, after you finish discussing nutrition for your pets........ god bless all of them.

Answer 6

I am not so sure that raw meat is the best thing to give, pet food has all the vitamins and nutrients a cat needs and it doesn't have to be expensive!

If you give him raw meat, he might get parasites.

Answer 7

yeee id like to know too man