| Making healthy cat food recipes will provide your cat | | | | By making the meals mostly muscle meat and bones, |
| with the most variety and so the most nutritional | | | | with a small proportion of organ meat, you are |
| balance. It may take a bit more time than opening a | | | | coming as close as you can to their evolutionary diet. |
| can or packet, but look at the added bonus of great | | | | A cat will not always be successful in their hunting. |
| health for your cat. | | | | They probably wouldn't catch more than about three, |
| This directly translates as less spent on expensive | | | | maybe four mice a day. So their meals need to be |
| professional health care. | | | | spaced out and not huge. |
| Once you get into a routine, duplicating it becomes | | | | This can translate as two meals a day. |
| second nature. | | | | One meal could be based on the muscle and organ |
| You need to start out by understanding what healthy | | | | meat, the other based on the bone content. |
| cat food is. Go back to the evolution of cats. Wild | | | | By making half the meat meal muscle meat (such as |
| cats kill and immediately eat their prey. This means | | | | mince or diced meat, chicken, fish or game meat) |
| their diet is all raw, quality food. Everything is in | | | | and the other half a variety of liver, kidney, heart or |
| balance. There is no excess fat. There are no | | | | brain, you have achieved total balance. |
| chemicals. There are no added nutrients, because | | | | The other meal could be a small whole raw fish |
| they get all they need from their kill. | | | | (including bones and entrails), a chicken neck or half a |
| So let's have a look at a carcass. Mice are the | | | | chicken wing. |
| common prey for the small wild cats, the forebears | | | | You could soon get into a weekly routine, with seven |
| of many domestic breeds. A mice is largely muscle | | | | days of different recipes. That is easy to shop and |
| meat and bones, with a small proportion of organ | | | | store, easy to make up as you go and much |
| meat. | | | | appreciated by your cat. |
| So your cat's diet needs to duplicate this. | | | | |