Cat Diet
KITTEN GLOP. for hand rearing and weaning kittens
Good for building up Moms and ill cats too
1 can evaporated or goats milk.(2 Cups)
1 sachet gelatine(2 teaspoons) dissolved in 1 can (2 cups) boiling water.
2 tablespoons real mayonnaise.
2 egg yolks
2 tablespoons plain yoghurt
1 teaspoon Honey
1 capsule acidopholus.
Mix well and store in fridge. It will set like jelly. Take out as much as is needed and warm in microwave - it will turn to milk again. It can be frozen in ice cube trays enabling one to use a small amount at a time.
NATURAL RAW DIET.
1 Kilogram (2lbs)of beef minced/ground – raw
250(1/2 lb) grams chicken liver –cooked or raw and chopped finely*
4 slices of brown bread OR 4 Weetbix OR 1 cup cooked rice OR 1 cup oats
(if you use oats pour 1 cup boiling water over and allow to stand)
2 cups water
Optional: 2cups cooked frozen or fresh veggies (pumpkin and Farmers Choice - NO
onions) Mash well
3 teaspoons Vita-mineral Mix. Or Bio-Vita or Vita-Kelp (from your vet)
Mix well and freeze in suitable size containers. Serve at room temperature.
* Omit if the cat gets diarrhoea
Once or twice a week use chicken or turkey meat instead of beef. Occasionally give a boiled or scrambled egg or a little cottage cheese as a treat. Fish is not recommended as lots of cats are allergic to fish. Most cats are unable to digest milk as well and it will cause diarrhoea so is best avoided.
VITA-MINERAL MIX
adapted from the book "The Natural Cat" by Anita Frazier
3 cups powdered Brewers yeast.
1 cup kelp powder
2 cups lecithin granules
1 cup bonemeal or calcium carbonate
1 cup wheatgerm flakes
1/2 cup Vitamin C powder
2 cups Alfalfa powder
1 cup dried/desiccated liver powder.
Mix and store in airtight container in a cool place.
(All ingredients are available from a health shop)
Diarrhoea Diet for young kittens:
Cook 1/2 kilo (1 lb) chicken fillets with 1 cup of rice with double the amount
of water normally used. Add 1/4 teaspoon salt and 1/2 teaspoon calcium. Cook
long and slow till the rice is soggy and starch molecules have broken.
Feed until 2 days after stools are firm and then introduce other foods in very
small quantities.
Fun recipes
CATNIP COOKIES
1 cup whole wheat flour
1/2 cup .soy flour
1 tsp.catnip
1 egg
1/3 cup milk
2 tblsp wheat germ
1/3 cup .powdered milk
1 tblsp unsulphered molasses
2 tblsp butter or vegetable oil
Preheat the oven to 350 F. Mix the dry
ingredients together.
Add molasses,egg, oil and milk. Roll out flat onto a oiled cookie sheet and cut
into small, cat bite sized pieces.
Bake for 20 minutes. Allow to cool and store in a tightly sealed container.
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Tuna Cookies
1 8 oz. can tuna (in oil)
2 cups cornmeal
2 cups flour
3/4 cup water
2/3 cup veg. oil
1/2 teaspoon salt
Mix all ingredients well, kneading just
to combine.
On floured surface, roll out to 1/4 inch thickness.
Cut out into little squares or other shapes.
Place on greased baking sheet. Bake at
350 degrees for 25-30 minutes. Cool on wire rack.
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1 can favorite canned cat food
piping bag with small plain tip
Whirr cat food in blender or food processor till the consistency of frosting.
Put into pastry or piping bag and make "kisses" on parchment paper
lined cookie sheet.
Bake in 300 degree oven till sort of dry and done. Time depends on size of
kisses.
If you make small ones it takes about 15 minutes.
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Go Fish
1 envelope ( 2 1/4 teaspoons) dry yeast
1/4 cup warm water (110 to 115 degrees
1 cup warm chicken or fish stock
2 tablespoons molasses
2 cups all purpose flour ( approx.)
1 1/2 cups whole wheat flour
1 cup cracked wheat
1/2 cup cornmeal
1/2 cup dry milk powder
1/3 cup fish food flakes
1 teaspoon salt
2 teaspoons garlic powder
1 large egg
1 tablespoon milk
Combine yeast and warm water. Let rest 5
minutes.
Stir in broth and molasses. Add 1 cup of flour
and all the rest except egg and milk.
Turn dough out onto a floured surface.
Knead in enough of remaining flour to make a very stiff dough, divide in half.
Cover and let rest 10-15 minutes.
Roll out each portion to 1/4 inch thickness.
Cut into shapes, preferably 1 inch fish shapes.
Place on ungreased cookie sheet.
combine beaten egg with milk. Brush over biscuits.
Bake at 300 degrees for 35
minutes.
Turn off oven and let biscuits cool in
oven overnight.
MouseBurger Bites
74g (3 oz) sausage meat or finely minced beef
Knead the ingredients together very thoroughly and form into a flat oval. Grill under a medium heat for 5 - 7 minutes, turning frequently, until the outside is crisp. Wait until cool then slice into bite size chunks.
Tuna Cakes
2 eggs
Beat eggs together in bowl. Add tuna, bread cubes, salt, brewer's yeast and bone meal. Mix thoroughly until moistened. Form into small patties. Melt margarine in skillet and fry patties until golden brown. When cool, crumble each patty and serve. Yields 3 to 5 servings. Store unused portion in an air-tight container and keep refrigerated.
Kitty Litter Cake
1 18.5-ounce package spice cake mix 1 18.5-ounce package white cake mix 2 4-serving packages instant vanilla pudding 1 12-ounce box vanilla wafer cookies, crushed 6 to 10 Tootsie Rolls Confectioner's sugar 1 brand new cat litter pan (advised) 1 brand new pooper scooper (there are also metal serving pieces that look like scoopers) green food coloring
Prepare the cakes and pudding according to package directions. Crumble the baked cake into the kitty litter pan, then add the pudding and mix. Add a few drops of green food coloring to 1 cup of the cookie crumbs and set aside; mix the rest into the pan.
Soften the Tootsie Rolls by placing in the microwave for 10 seconds on high and shape to resemble cat droppings. Caution: be careful with hot Tootsie Rolls. They are very hot and will burn your fingers. Arrange the Tootsie Rolls on top of the cookie-pudding cake mixture, sprinkle all with green cookie crumbs, then with a bit of confectioner's sugar. Serve with pooper scooper. Serves a lot of people as some just want to look and some just want to taste a little. It's really good.
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"LITTERBOX" COOKIES ---------------------------- There are two flavor cookies: chocolate & gingerbread. The cookies are dense and not very sweet, this is necessary so that they will keep their shape during baking. If you use white flour or sugar they may be tastier but they won't look like sh*t.
Chocolate ingredients: 1/2 cup honey 2/3 cup (11/3 stick) butter or margarine 1 egg 1 tsp vanilla or peppermint extract 2 cups whole wheat flour 1/3 cup cocoa powder Grape-Nuts cereal
Gingerbread ingredients: 1/4 cup honey 1/4 cup molasses 2/3 cup butter or margarine 1 egg 2 1/3 cups whole wheat flour 1/2 tsp each Ginger, Cinnamon, & Cloves Grape-Nuts cereal Mix-ins for either recipe: Coconut; Chocolate Chips Butterscotch Chips, Peanut Butter Chips
Microwave the honey till it bubbles (about 1 minute). Add the butter and molasses, if any. Add the egg, mix well, then mix in all the other stuff. Add mix-ins of your choice to some or all of the batter.
Chill 1 hour in the freezer or several hours in the fridge. Roll dough logs of random length and the diameter of cat poops. Roll logs in grape-nuts and bake at 350 degrees till done(10-15 minutes).
Serve in a disposable cat litterbox on a bed of Grape-Nuts, with a cat litter scoop. I hear you get lovely effects by decorating the box and scoop with melted chocolate or pudding. NOTE: This recipe worked especially well at my Halloween party where the table was already decorated with plastic flies.
: Grape-Nuts is a Post breakfast cereal made with wheat?, barley? and looks, now that I think about it, like bumpy clay litter.
Lori
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Dr. Linda East, DVM 311 S. Pennsylvania St. Denver, CO 80203 (303) 733-2728
Nutrition And The Cat The only truly balanced and complete diet for the cat is the one provided by nature millions of years before packaged commercial foods became available. The natural diet is freshly killed prey because cats evolved as PURE CARNIVORES, and this means their nutritional requirements are much more specialized and fragile than those of dogs or humans, who are not pure carnivores. But since today's house cat is mostly unable to hunt and is instead dependent upon us to provide food, it is important that we understand the impact of substituting the NATURAL diet of fresh raw meat with packages and cans of processed, refined, highly cooked commercial cat food.
I don't believe it is possible for cats to be truly healthy when living on commercial foods for a long period of time. This belief came about after contrasting the condition of house cats with feral cats who have access to adequate prey. These feral cats are simply magnificent, with strong teeth and gums, thick shiny fur, clear eyes, and well-developed muscles. (I am not talking about feral cats in diseased, starved colonies where there is not adequate food of any kind.) There are other variables present as well, but certainly diet is of prime importance,.
So while I don't believe our commercially-fed house cats CAN he as healthy as cats eating the diet Mother Nature designed for them, there are ways we can improve their nutrition to minimize health problems.
1. Realizing that cats need most of all RAW MEAT as the main part of their diet, supplement with RAW MEAT. I suggest ground raw turkey, frozen and then thawed to kill some important parasites. Offer an ice cream scoop-sized portion at least twice a week in place of the cat's normal meal. Some cats refuse raw meat at first, as it is the nature of the cat to distrust strange food. Just persist! Let the cat miss a meal or two and get really hungry. Once they start eating raw meat, they love it and feel much better afterward because they are getting what their body really needs without any added preservatives or chemicals.
2. Feed a variety of commercial brands. No commercial food is perfect, as it is impossible to duplicate the natural diet in processed cooked form. There have been numerous cases of serious illness in cats on commercial foods (blindness, cardiomyopathy, kidney failure), and the cats involved were eating one food exclusively. Feed one brand for a few weeks, then switch to another brand. 3. Feed canned food (the more expensive the better) as the mainstay of your cat's diet. Canned food contains more animal-derived ingredients (dry foods rely heavily on vegetable-derived ingredients) and provides a great deal more moisture. Never feed the soft-moist packets. (Have you ever wondered why the stuff won 't spoil, even if unrefrigerated?) Dry food can be fed, also, but should not be the sole diet for the reasons given above: low meat content, low moisture. Dry food does NOT clean the teeth. The teeth of cats do not have grinding surfaces for chewing, as our teeth do. Cats' teeth are sharp and pointed, designed for catching prey and pulling meat from the bones. They chew very little. And anyway, you wouldn't expect chewing on crackers to clean your teeth. Even the pet food companies do not put the claim that dry food cleans the teeth on their packages.
4. Feed supplements in addition to commercial food, realizing that many of the nutrients and all of the enzymes have been cooked out at high temperatures. Raw meat and other raw foods have enzymes that self-digest the food. This is what cleans the teeth of cats on their natural diet. When enzyme-deficient food is eaten, the pancreas must then produce enzymes to compensate. Studies in rats have shown that the pancreas becomes swollen and less efficient on a cooked diet, because it is "overworked." With time, the pancreas fails to function properly, becomes "burned out," and the cat becomes finicky, wants to eat but doesn't, loses weight, gets diarrhea, and will die without nutritional help. I can advise you on proper supplements.
5. A healthy cat receiving all nutrients it needs will eat to fill its needs, and then will eat no more. If your cat is too thin or overweight, do not be too quick to switch to a special diet which supposedly will correct the weight Many of these diets are simply high-fiber, which can decrease the absorption of essential nutrients even further. I believe a cat overeats because something is missing in the diet, probably meats or enzyme& Do not simply attempt to cut or add calories. Go through the steps above and make sure the diet is as close to the natural diet as possible. I have many cats lose (or gain) weight simply by adding the raw meat supplements.
Some people choose to prepare their cat's food at home, avoiding commercial foods entirely. This is wonderful, but does require some knowledge as to mineral supplementation. Remember that eaten prey consists not only of raw meat, but the minerals from the bones as well I can also advise you on this route and suggest appropriate books and other reading materials.
A cat without proper nutrition as intended by Nature (not pet food companies) is like a plant in poor soil. It cannot resist disease or parasites and becomes progressively weakened. Drugs are powerless when you do not get at the source, just as it is no use spraying your plants time after time but neglecting to enrich the soil.
