home made pet food

[Eden]

I tried raw with my kitties (purchased raw) and my boy was vomiting too much too. He's got a sensitive tummy..... I have to heat his food if its been in the fridge or he throws up.... I have to feed him small amounts several times a day or he throws up... sometimes he just throws up... but he couldn't keep the raw food down at all. He's also got a very sensitive urinary tract.... I tried adding in a bit of new foods (all meat, grain-veggie free) and he started getting fus symptoms.....
Oddly he seems sensitive to poultry - it was after I added chicken/turkey/duck that he started having problems. His current food is venison/lamb/fish based.

So mine get the best cooked food I could find, which is Ziwi Peak. It's all meat, no grains, no veggies (except perhaps what was in the stomachs of the animals that go into it.... every once in a while I swear I see a pea).

[Veronica]

No recipes here either.

I explored the homemade options a few years ago too as my then 1 year old cat was getting obese on a quality dry food. We switched our two to Wellness brand - they only eat chicken. he got so much more playful after the switch and lost two pounds. Apparently cats can have issues with wheat.

Hope you find what you need for your babies.

Veronica

[Biciclista]

I feed raw to all of my cats except the old (15 year old ) cat. My 10 year old, 8 year old and one year old all scarf it down.
The old cat will eat it sometimes, but not always so it's easier to just let her eat what she's used to.

I'm sure if you wanted to take chicken and cut it up (or grind it) and then steam it, it would be great for your cats. Be sure to include bones and organ meats.... my cats LOVE liver

[ccnyc]

Some info on a cooked diet for cats.
http://www.holisticat.com/cooked.html

[badger]

Some info on a cooked diet for cats.
http://www.holisticat.com/cooked.html

thank you!

I've found a couple of cooked recipes online, as well. I'll give some of them a try next weekend when my kitty comes back from getting radioactive iodine treatment for his hyperthyroidism.

[Norse]

Holisticat is a great site and the primary one I relied on for switching our cats to a raw food diet. Another site with a lot of info (but no cooked food recipes ), and written by a vet: http://catinfo.org/.

[bmccasland]

thank you!

I've found a couple of cooked recipes online, as well. I'll give some of them a try next weekend when my kitty comes back from getting radioactive iodine treatment for his hyperthyroidism.

Hey Badger,
How old is your hyper-T cat? I'm dealing with a 16-yr old hyper-T cat myself. Maybe because of her age, her vet never suggested the radioactive treatment. Now I have to think about whether she'll even survive the drive to the PNW - as the last time I did a x-country drive my fur babies went off their feed.

[Norse]

Beth, our 17 year old kitty is also hyper-T. Last fall, we had her all scheduled to go in for the iodine treatment - they did a complete physical first to make sure they thought she could handle it. What they didn't tell us was that they wouldn't let her have her raw food diet while there. Two weeks off her diet, that she was doing well on, going back to eating crap food for two weeks, the stress of the treatment and two weeks in a strange place ... well, that was enough for us to decide not to go through with it. She gets a daily 1/2 pill instead along with a 1/4 pill for her recently diagnosed high blood pressure! We use a "pill popper" to get both pills down at once.