Rrraw Feeding for Your Cat

Making your own cat food is easy. Once you do it a few times, it gets even easier. Most people end up feeding a combination of homemade, commercially made raw diets and whole meats. This is actually preferred, variety is important, both in the types of meat and the different recipes. This variety helps to even out the nutrients provided. 

Typically, a healthy adult cat should eat 2 - 4% of its body weight per day (double that for kittens up to a year old) and be fed twice daily. As an example, a ten pound cat, eating 3% of its weight would intake 4.8 ounces a day. Kittens should eat about every four hours, and senior cats often do better eating three or four smaller meals per day. 

If your cat is not at an ideal weight or has existing medical conditions, consult a qualified animal nutritionist, a holistic veterinarian, or your current vet prior to beginning a new diet.

When embarking upon a homemade food for your cat, the basic ratio guideline to follow is:

83%  meat

  7%  bone

  5%  liver 

  5%  other organs 

Important supplements to have on hand include:

Taurine powder

Vitamin E capsules

Vitamin B Complex (powder or capsules containing powder)

Wild Salmon Oil (do not use cod liver oil as it contains high levels of Vitamin A which can be toxic for your kitty)

Lite Salt that is iodized (or use regular iodized table salt but use 1/2 the amount any recipe calls for)

Psyllium Husk Powder (Temporary use is beneficial in the prevention constipation as your pet adjusts to its new diet.)

Both recipes call for eggshell powder. You can make this yourself by leaving the shell's nutrient rich membrane, removing the egg white from the shells and drying them in a 300 F oven for 10 minutes. Allow them to cool then grind to a fine powder using an old coffee grinder or mortar and pestle.

Raw Chicken Dinner

4.5 lb   boneless chicken thighs and breasts (If they have skin, remove it from half of the meat.)

   7 oz   chicken liver

  14 oz  chicken heart (If you are unable to locate chicken hearts, add 4,000 mg taurine to the amount listed below, plus 3 ounces of thigh meat.)

   8 oz   spring or filtered water (do not use unfiltered tap water)

   4       egg yolks

   2 tsp egg shell powder (Grinding the shell of one large egg yields approximately 1 tsp of powder.)

2,000 mg taurine

4,000 mg fish oil

   200 iu  Vitamin E

   200 mg Vitamin B complex  

   4 tsp psyllium husk powder (optional)

Mix together well, serve a meal fresh and freeze the rest

Raw Rabbit Dinner

3 cups    rabbit meat (ground or chunks)

1/3 cup  chicken liver

1/2 cup  chicken heart

   1         raw chicken or turkey neck, chopped (DO NOT COOK)

1/2 cup  cooked carrots, diced small

   1         egg

   1 tsp   fish oil

   4 tsp eggshell powder

3,000 mg  taurine powder

Mix well, serve appropriate portion and freeze the rest