In a message dated 11/18/02 12:58:21 PM, [log in to unmask] writes:

<< FWIW, my 12 y/o dog is on a diet that consists mostly of raw meat, bones,

etc.  Yet, when she is given an opportunity to eat cooked meat she is far

more excited about eating it than her room temperature raw meat. >>

My elderly terminally ill cat won't eat raw meat at all but stands there
begging as soon as I cook any meat. A former old, ill cat was the same.
They liked raw meat when younger and healthy and both refused it as
they got older and sick. But they will eat a lot of cooked meat. Frances