Homemade Cat Food Recipe

Have you thought about making you own homemade cat food ? I have just begun doing this after reading a lot about how our little furry friends are being given the wrong type of food and that it shortens their lives.

It is  a hard thing to do because instead of relying on the company from whom you bought the cat food to get it right suddenly it it up to you.

My husband brought me down to earth when he asked if I carefully considered the exact constituents of the meals I make for him!! It made me realize I was being a bit too fussy about it all.  After all do we carefully measure each vitamin, mineral, protein, carbohydrate and fat we give our children? Of course we don't.  So let's not get too anal about cat food. Cats were home fed, mainly scraps, for eons before the big pet food companies made us all feel we were unable to do this ourselves.

I have been making my own cat food for about a year now and my gorgeous cat Alfie looks pretty healthy. I took him for his annual vet check this week and the vet said he had lost weight- which was good.  He still needs to lose a little more, not much. He was very healthy with good strong teeth. (The vet experienced those for himself!). So now I feel very relaxed about what I am feeding him.

Homemade Cat Food Recipe

This is based on the recipe given by  Anne at Cat Nutrition a real cat lover site. She's been using this raw home made cat food recipe for 7 years, which is long enough to feel very confident of its merits.

I make a bulk amount of food up and put it into little freezer pots of 6 oz each. That is about what an average sized cat needs per day. It will be too much if the cat is an indoor cat who gets little exercise.

The recipe is a mixture of  raw meats such as minced chicken, including finely ground bone, some minced raw venison, egg yolks, minced heart and minced liver. I buy the meat from the pet food butcher. All this is mixed up together and then I add a vitamin and omega formula that I get from the pet shop. Its called "My Beau" and it was created by the veterinary school in New Zealand.

All you have to do then is remember to take a package out of the freezer each day. If you forget it soon thaws if you put the pot in warm water. Microwaving is not easy as it so easily cooks at the edges.

I have had no trouble changing him onto this new  cat food recipe, he seems to love it.

I would love to hear from anyone who has fed their cat on a natural all meat diet like this.