Cats & Cat Health

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 constituants of the meals I make for him!! It made me realise I was being a bit too fussy about it all. After all do we carefully measure each vitamin, mineral, protein, cabohydrate and fat we give our children? Of course we don’t. So let’s not get too anal about cat food.

I have been making my own cat food for about 3 weeks now and 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 just fine. So now I can relax about what I am feeding him.

Homemade Cat Food

This is based on the recipe given by Anne . She has been using it for 7 years which is long enough to feel confident of its merits.

I make a bulk amount of food up and put it into little freezer pots. It 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 fomula that I get from the pet shop. I divide the mixture into 6 ounce portions and freeze them. 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.

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.

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