my cat eats homecooked food... - cat friendly recipes needed

[Niggaplease]

am I spoiling my cat? because I literally make homemmade cat pates for her every week instead of feeding her canned stuff. any cat friendly food ideas? I sense she's getting bored of the status quo..

 

[Cast Iron Pan]

That's not spoiling, that's probably the best nutrition possible. As long as the food has enough taurine, can't beat homemade.

Treats:
- A good way to turbocharge your cat is to feed it bloody raw/mostly raw steak. That will make even the laziest cat do backflips.
- Liver. I can't stand it, cats seem to love it. Supposedly highly nutritious.
- Moths are apparently tasty.

 

[The Real SVP]

Raw beef liver and raw chicken hearts make nice cat treats. IIRC you want to pace them because there is some theoretical possibility of overdosing on some of the micros in there, but cats love them.

 

[NOT Sword Fighter Super]

If you really want to shake things up for her maybe try feeding her rectally so she shits out her mouth.
#CartmanWasRight

 

[DumbDude42]

cooked food? for a cat?
no thanks. my cat gets raw meat like nature intended, because she's not a faggot.

 

[MrTroll]

A cat that can't feed itself by catching rats is a cat that doesn't deserve to live.

 

[Marche]

My cat eats mince meat with cooked pumpkin in it and some powder stuff to give him more healthy cat stuff to make him alive better.
he is very cute and worth the effort.

 

[Local Coyote]

I generally don't recommend home cooked diets without consulting a veterinary nutritionist. Just winging it means that the nutritional properties vary wildly from batch to batch. Even recipes on the internet usually aren't balanced. Raw food also carries risk of foodborne illnesses like salmonella and listeria.

Home cooking is entirely doable but it does take work. And unlike humans in veterinary medicine "nutritionist" is something you get board certified through the main veterinary organization (AVMA). It isn't diploma mill bullshit.

 

[L50LasPak]

Yeah as long as you avoid loading it with carbohydrates, which cats aren't suppose to have in high quantities (being carnivores) its not a big deal. A buddy of mine had to take his cats off of store-bought wet food because it just kept making them sick consistently. They got fat on dry food but he figured it was better than having them puking constantly.

So I say if you don't mind putting the time in to whip that stuff up and it doesn't make your cats sick, I say go for it.

 

[Niggaplease]

A cat that can't feed itself by catching rats is a cat that doesn't deserve to live.

she is a good mouser but we lack mice or rats.

 

[Orion Balls]

Raw cow liver and kidneys works well. Especially when you have organ meats to spare.

 

[XYZpdq]

my parents had a cat make it to her mid 20s and a largish dog that lasted to her late teens getting whatever was the cheapest raw chicken, boiling the shit out of it, and giving them the meat