Commercial vs. home-made cat foods

[cassiesmom]

PT, I have a question for you. If it has already been answered, just tell me where to find the answer. If not, maybe some of you can help me. With all the pet food recalls, I wonder if I should be making my own cat food. I don't know enough about cat nutrition to be confident, though. Should I keep feeding the purchased foods that have not been recalled? I have a friend who has completely stopped feeding her cat commercial foods and is giving her a mixture of cooked ground meat, brown rice and very finely ground steamed vegetables. I am not sure what to do!

thanks
elyse

[DrKym]

Elyse I feed Raw anyway but Pennys cats came here on commercial brands.
I have been switching them to raw, and to cooked leftovers and tempting tidbits from the table, they are all losing a bit of weight and enjoying it.

I will tell you this cats are carnivores, not opportunistic omnivores or opportunistic carnivores they are pure carnivores. I do not add any rice grains or vegetables to the cats diet never have never will, and until I see a discovery expose on a lion pride hunting down corn i won"t ;)

That being said, the easiest diets and nutrition is the healthiest for your cat.
I use a simple ratio of organ meats 10% of their total diet, I use meat muscle as nearly 70% I factor in about 10% bone and the rest is supplemented with eggs and fish and yogurt/cottage cheese/sour cream.
It is simple quick and my cats do very very well on it.

Hope that helped

[Freedom]

there have been a few threads on this recently.

Try here:
http://petoftheday.com/talk/showthread.php?t=124882&highlight=feline+raw+diet

and here:
http://petoftheday.com/talk/showthread.php?t=117214&highlight=feline+raw+diet

also here:
http://petoftheday.com/talk/showthread.php?t=52432&highlight=feline+raw+diet

[cassiesmom]

here is an article that recommends some brands I was not familiar with.
FEEDING YOUR CAT: KNOW THE BASICS OF FELINE NUTRITION by Lisa Pierson, DVM


bottom line: For me it is not time to start cooking yet. There are other high-quality cat foods that can be purchased.

http://www.catinfo.org/

[kt_luvs_kitties]

I have been feeding Innova EVO since the recall. It can be fed as a complement to raw diets, or as a whole food. It is high protein low carb with NO grains. My cats wont eat anything else now, and it is made with raw ingredients. It is the best food I think personally you can buy for your cats, as it is based on all natural raw foods, and cats are carnivores.
Only one downside... Smelly poo for the first 4-6 weeks. Because of course their is more meat= more protein= STINKY! lol
Hope you give it a try. I think it is GREAT!