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Healthy Homemade Cat Food

May 25th 2010 15:12
There are many people who feel as though making homemade food for their cats is better than any dry kibble or can cat food that can be purchased at a pet store or boutique. This may be true, but it's seldom that you'll find a vet who will readily recommend switching from a commercial cat food to a homemade or a raw cat food diet.


If you choose to switch your cat to a homemade diet, you want to make sure that you can provide a varied and healthy diet in order to maintain your cats' nutrition and nourishment.

You want to make sure that you can maintain proper levels of proteins, amino acids, fatty acids, vitamins, minerals, and of course water. You can offer carbohydrates, such as rice or grains, but you want to do so in limited quantities in order to provide proper energy levels and even reduce the overall costs of making a daily homemade diet for your cat.

When feeding your cat a homemade diet, you want to be careful to avoid salmonella concerns, zoonotic disease transmission (animals to human transmission), contagion issues, and overall food safety.

If you opt to feed raw meats to your cat(s), you want to be very careful, as feeding raw can leave a large margin for error. For example, you don't want to leave raw foods out for long, as they can go bad, which means that if you go out of town, you'll need to find a sitter because unlike kibble, you can't leave a big bowl of raw meat and foods out all weekend for your cat(s) to much one.


You want to make sure that you are fully aware of where your meat comes from. Basically, if you wouldn't eat it, don't feed it to your pet. It's pretty simple.

If you want to offer homemade food as a staple diet for your cat, you want to add taurine and arginine supplements, to ensure that the cat is getting proper amino acids. Consider fish, rabbit, and poultry as great sources of tasty proteins, and consider adding vegetable, safflower, olive oil or fish oil for fat content.

In general, consider the following foods added to your cat(s)' diet. The amounts of each food and category will vary, depending on the size and health of your cat.

* Protein: cooked dark meat chicken, beef, pork, lamb, salmon, or tuna
* Carbohydrate: cooked white rice, oatmeal, barley, corn, peas, or pasta
* Fiber: cooked sweet potato, without skin
* Fat (optional): vegetable, safflower, olive oil or fish oil

You want to add other supplements to ensure that your cat is getting all the proper nutrients from a raw diet. Consider adding the following supplements into your cat's diet:

* Omega 3
* Vitamin E
* Vitamin B
* Taurine
* Arginine


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