Liver...I should've known better.....

[Millys Mum]

Iv not braved offal yet 

[Mark]

I have to recommend Kitchen Devil scissors - I bought a pair in 1994 (I know as I bought them in Tesco the day I moved into my 1st owned flat  ) and have always used them to cut up chicken, meat and the odd bit of cardboard and they are still really sharp 

[unseeliechylde]

oooh, kitchen scissors! Gillian, you're a genius I'll have to invest - anything that minimises the handing, and avoids the "sawing through blood vessels" experience - bleugh! I would probably have to go to the local butchers anyway (which I admit I don't do enough), as the chicken livers seem to go quite quickly, for some reason..(maybe I'm not the only crazy cat lady in Aberdeen who feeds her furbabes liver). At least that way I can ask for free range specifically

[Gillian Harvey]

That sounds like a good plan, Gillian - the less smell the better! I'm guessing the chicken ones won't need so much chopping either (a task I really don't relish! )

I guess the other benefit of chicken liver is it will prob say whether its free range or not - I'm never sure what you are meant to look for, welfare-wise, when buying other meat. We tend to just go for "organic", but I'm not entirely clear on the welfare standards for organic meat when it comes to cattle, sheep etc.

You'd be surprised, at how big chicken livers actually are! I know I was. I snip the livers up with kitchen scissors.

I've bought chicken livers from a local traditional butchers and their chickens are all free range, so I'm guessing that the livers come from those chickens, hope so anyways! but I have bought them from Sainsbury's and they are not labelled as free range or organic.

[Sam (Fussy_Furball)]

At least liver is better than Tripe 

Only slightly 

[Den]

At least liver is better than Tripe 

[unseeliechylde]

That sounds like a good plan, Gillian - the less smell the better! I'm guessing the chicken ones won't need so much chopping either (a task I really don't relish! ) - you're right though, we've been getting ox and lamb liver - nasty stuff, but they love it.
They took to it rather too well, if anything!  Skye was straight in, but she's such a little carnivore I'm not surprised. Also, she's not quite a year yet, and we've had her on occasional raw food since she was 6 months, so she's used to it. Riley was a little more circumspect - watched Skye eat hers, followed her around for about half an hour to look for side effects, then decided it was obviously safe as she neither puked nor keeled over, and promptly devoured his like a starving street urchin
I guess the other benefit of chicken liver is it will prob say whether its free range or not - I'm never sure what you are meant to look for, welfare-wise, when buying other meat. We tend to just go for "organic", but I'm not entirely clear on the welfare standards for organic meat when it comes to cattle, sheep etc.

[Gillian Harvey]

We've recently taken to buying fresh, raw liver for the cats as an occasional treat.

I'd forgotten just how gross liver actually is  - the texture, smell, appearence - ugh! But, rod for my own back - it may make my stomach churn,

Haha! rod for your own back - deffo LOL!  What liver did you buy? I get chicken livers for mine and I don't think they smell as bad as lamb, ox or pigs livers. Mine took quite a long time to get used to raw liver when I started feeding raw - I would put a tiny sliver in with their raw mix and most would get it in their mouths and your could almost see the disgust on their faces LOL! - but they all love it now.

[unseeliechylde]

We've recently taken to buying fresh, raw liver for the cats as an occasional treat. Mistake, BIG mistake. They LOVE it, of course - it's the only thing they WILL NOT share, with warning growls and dagger stares all round, even though they both have a bit and are half a meter apart No fights, just emphatic "this is MINE!"....
Anywhooo......the problem is, I'd forgotten just how gross liver actually is  - the texture, smell, appearence - ugh! But, rod for my own back - it may make my stomach churn, but what I wouldn't put up with for anyone or anything else, I'll do for the furbabies without question....was there ever a clearer illustration of just who owns who in this relationship?