Homemade cat food recipes - got them? Please share.

[lizziegrace]

The real Lizziegrace went back to the vet for the 4th time for an ear infection that will not resolve. Several of you posted recipes to make food that should be allergen-free and that's where we are right now. That, and a heavy-duty antibiotic for a month. Yes, a month. Poor little girl. :(

[China_cat]

1. Cats are obligate carnivores

which means they get no nutrition from anything but meat. They need some grass/roughage/fiber material to stay regular.

Eliminate the dry food. You can feed any kind of meat, lightly cooked, and provide kitty grass to munch on or a bit of canned pumpkin (pumpkin only NOT the pie filling) for fiber. This is the catkins diet used by a lot of sugarcat owners. (Sugarcats=cats with diabetes) It is really a help in controlling glucose levels and weight.

[lizziegrace]

3. Thank you

I will put a couple chickens in the crock pot in the morning and get her off the dry food. Actually, I'll have to take both my cats off dry because I can't keep them apart to feed them. It'll do my 13-year old cat some good though.

:)

[CaliforniaPeggy]

2. My dear lizziegrace!

I'm so sorry about the beautiful real lizziegrace....

At least now you can afford to take her to the vet.....

No recipes, just this: :grouphug:

:hug: for you too!

[lizziegrace]

4. Yep

I can afford it after the 24th (my first paycheck). Until then, they accepted a post-dated check. Her ear was full of nasty stuff again and had to be cleaned out. :( I never dreamed it would be three months and still not resolved.

:hug: back atcha!

[reyd reid reed]

5. I got to thinking this afternoon...

And...have you thought about giving her baby food until this thing clears up? The little jars of Gerber's meat...that nasty stuff, remember? It doesn't have other crap in it, it's pretty much just pureed chicken.

And you can find cat grass in most pet shops, I think (mine stick their noses up at cat grass, preferring to munch on -- and gak-back -- anything green that their Not supposed to eat. One of mine is partial to peas and green beans).

It might be worth a shot -- and a WHOLE lot easier than cooking.

:shrug:

:hug::hug::hug:

[China_cat]

6. It's good, but the baby meats are

SO much more expensive (not to mention the much higher caloric content) than poaching a chicken finger or lightly frying (in olive oil) a bit of hamburger...or saving some of the roast you had for dinner for the cats. Or, if you're a vegetarian, buying one small tougher cut of steak or stew meat to fix for the cats.

We use the baby meats when we've got a sick cat with little appetite. They're easier to mix with liquid and syringe into the animal if necessary.

[scarletlib]

7. Dr. Michael Fox, DVM

He has a web site with recipes for homemade cat food. He has a column syndicated in several newspapers and is really into natural care for animals as much as possible. You can google search his name and put in cat food recipes. It should come up.

[Lethe]

8. I don't have any good ones personally, but there is a place nearby that

has great catfood recipes. It's a place called Cho's Korean. Great restaurant btw.

[Kali]

9. get this book:

Dr. Pitcairn's Complete Guide to Natural Health for Dogs and Cats.

Changed my views on pet food completely. Most allergies are FOOD all ergies. Try this guy's basic diet for a month and see what happens. You will be amazed. No more skin, eye, ear problems.

Here is the basic Cat recipe, but GET THE BOOK and READ IT. (lots more recipes)

2 cups water
1/2 cup of GRAIN (polenta, rice, oat, or mixed human cereal)
1 TBS oil or butter
1 egg
1 lb of fresh meat (2 cups ground turkey, lamb, chicken, beef)
2 TBS Health Powder*
scant tsp egg shell (dried, baked at 300 degrees for 10 minutes and ground)
5,000 IU vitamin A (cod liver oil - don't get it on you it stinks)
(tsp of grated fresh veg - carrot, spinach whatever)

Boil water, cook cereal - while still hot stir in egg and meat so it gets heated but not cooked to death add rest except fresh veg. This will keep in fridge for a few days - and is about 3 or 4 servings. Add the fresh veg when feeding. May take a few days for cat to eat it. The book explains about animal fasting. This does NOT hurt the pet. Predators in the wild often go days without eating. again read this book you may even change your own diet!

*Healthy Powder

2 cups nutritional (torula) yeast
1 cup lecithin granules
1/4 cup kelp powder
1/4 cup bonemeal (or 9,000 mg calcium, or 5 teaspoons ground eggshell)
1,000 mgs vit c (grind up a regular vitamin or two)