The absurdity of it all.
We are making cat food or the husband part of we is making cat food while I write this post.
So far there's about $7 worth of ingredients now freezing in muffin tins, which amounts to enough food for one cat for three days. I don't know -- not sure about our recipe or not sure how long we can afford to make their food, but after researching cat food since the Menu Foods recall, I don't think I can bear to feed canned food to them anymore.
Menu foods had to recall a variety of pet food due to rat poison which was miraculously getting into the pet food cans and causing death. I think if only they had kept the rats in the food rather than the poison, so many animals would not have died and we wouldn't be going broke trying to feed our guys something akin to healthy, nutritious food.
It shouldn't be this hard to feed a cat. Years ago, there was a time when there was no such thing as pet food in cans. I am not sure what they ate back then. Probably rats.
Anyhow, our recipe so far is 1 1/2 pounds ground beef at $4.39 a pound, 3/4 cup brown rice, 4 ounces of peas and carrots 1/4 cup blueberries and cranberries mixed, salt Olive oil and one multivitamin crushed.
Finbar has had numerous signs of food allergies and now since I can't trust any manufactured pet food, we're giving a go at making our own.
Progress! Huh?
If anyone has a recipe for cat food they've used, please share it. I'm not ready to feed raw food to my boys and not sure how long my bank account will last with the price of ground beef!
Back to stirring the pot, the cat food pot.
We are making cat food or the husband part of we is making cat food while I write this post.
So far there's about $7 worth of ingredients now freezing in muffin tins, which amounts to enough food for one cat for three days. I don't know -- not sure about our recipe or not sure how long we can afford to make their food, but after researching cat food since the Menu Foods recall, I don't think I can bear to feed canned food to them anymore.
Menu foods had to recall a variety of pet food due to rat poison which was miraculously getting into the pet food cans and causing death. I think if only they had kept the rats in the food rather than the poison, so many animals would not have died and we wouldn't be going broke trying to feed our guys something akin to healthy, nutritious food.
It shouldn't be this hard to feed a cat. Years ago, there was a time when there was no such thing as pet food in cans. I am not sure what they ate back then. Probably rats.
Anyhow, our recipe so far is 1 1/2 pounds ground beef at $4.39 a pound, 3/4 cup brown rice, 4 ounces of peas and carrots 1/4 cup blueberries and cranberries mixed, salt Olive oil and one multivitamin crushed.
Finbar has had numerous signs of food allergies and now since I can't trust any manufactured pet food, we're giving a go at making our own.
Progress! Huh?
If anyone has a recipe for cat food they've used, please share it. I'm not ready to feed raw food to my boys and not sure how long my bank account will last with the price of ground beef!
Back to stirring the pot, the cat food pot.
posted by mary bishop | 11:46 AM
6 Comments:
heh i avoid that by feeding my cat dry food.
every once in awhile she will get deli turkey or turkey we've cooked and some ice cream.
wet food on a regular basis or as their sole source of food isnt good for their teeth.
and actually my cat wont eat the wet stuff.
yeah, i was thinking dry food, too. that's all my April has ever had. but then again, she pukes everywhere.
but it's not so bad. it looks just like the dry food she just ate.
Great idea Mary! I thought about making my own cat food, but it's too much work! Feeding only dry isn't good for a cat's kidney's, so wet is essential. I read that you MUST include calcium, taurine, and vitamin C in the food. Make sure that stuff is in the multi you put in. The meat should be raw or lightly cooked, and the meat portion recommended is 50 to 90 percent of the food. Good for you and better for your cats!
Hi Miss Mini...we had a male cat with urinary problems caused by dry food so since we currently have two males we are very careful with the dry food...only as a snack once in a while. My kitties would love icecream or milk but they instantly barf. I was told that cats start off life lactose tolerant and if you continue to give them milk products they continue to be able to digest them. But if you stop, they enzymes go away and it becomes a digestive nightmare.
Finbar ate one meat-muffin and I thought wonderful, but last night and this morning he stuck his nose up at it and walked away. Guess my dogs will have plenty of cat muffins to enjoy.
Wenig, instapuke isn't bad to pick up...another thing animal food manufacturers do that drives me crazy is color the freaking food so that the puke leaves a color. We have finally found two dry foods, one for cats and one for dogs without dyes!
Husband asked me what kind of dry food I wanted him to buy and I told him anything that's the color of the rug. Tan.
Lori, oh how I wish I could tell you that the kitty meat-muffins were a roaring success. The first time Fin was served his human grade and edible food he seemed to like it but dinner and breakfast he refused it.
We were planning on adding the taurine if the muffins were a success. (He'd heard that the meat should be lightly cooked which he did, he also cooked the veggies separately and blended them in the processor.) The cat food experiment took up the bulk of the day as the kitchen was a total mess - we would have felt good if either the turkey muffins or the beef muffins had made Fin happy. Now that he's refusing it I don't know what we're going to do.
At least we're trying...I keep hoping that more and more pet owners, maybe some vets would get into the process and come up with a relatively easy yet palatable recipe for those of us who have allergic animals. (I will not do the live baby chicks as one woman recommended!!)
It might be easier to stick to high-quality brands that weren't affected by the bag gluten...Petguard and Wellness are two of the best, and that's what we are feeding our three.
Any new recipes? I just started feeding our sid wet since he's older and he was lookng so skinny. Then this recall happened.
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