Raw food diet for Sphynx cats and kittens.
RAW DIET FOR CATS AND KITTENS
2 kg [4.4 pounds] raw muscle chicken meat with bones (chicken thighs and drumsticks)
400 grams [14 oz] raw heart (try to use chicken hearts) You may substitute kidney if heart is not available)
200 grams [7 oz] raw liver (try to find chicken livers, if they are unavailable, you can use calves liver)
8 oz [1 cup] water
4 oz oat bran
4000 mg salmon oil
800 IU Vitamin E ("dry E" works well)
200 mg Vitamin B complex
1. Grind the chicken with skin and bones.
2. Grind the raw liver, any skin, raw meaty bones, and raw heart.
3. Add 1 cup of water, oat bran, salmon oil, vitamin e and vitamin B to the raw mixture and mix together well.
4. Separate. Refrigerate or freeze. I normally refrigerate enough for 4 days and freeze the rest in small containers.
I am currently taking on new clients. I will design a customized diet for your cat or dog based on several things such as breed, activity, age and weight. If your cat or dog is suffering from an ailment or undesirable behaviour, many times diet can help with this. Below is a brief history of commercial foods and why your cat or dog should be on a natural diet. My services will include a transition to a natural diet, recipes you can make yourself and/ or natural foods delivered to your door.
Beginning in the 1970s, pet health declined significantly. Cancer, hyperthyroidism, allergies, arthritis and kidney disease among many others became much more common.
Similar to humans, all animals have an emotional state as well as a physical one. Optimal health for any animal includes good mental health. If an animal’s mental state is unbalanced, the physical body will manifest symptoms physically. A healthy, happy mind leads to a healthy, happy animal.
Until less than a hundred years ago, cats and dogs relied heavily on prey and table scraps. Similar to commercial cat and dog foods, the commercial foods, such as pellets and premixed feeds, for birds, rodents, horses, and pigs have only recently been developed and manufactured. When commercial pet foods
flooded the markets and became widely employed, the ill health of pets soon followed. A literature review suggests that many veterinarians, particularly ones embracing a holistic approach, believe that commercial food play a large role in the declining health of pets.A common characteristic of all the companies above is the poor governmental oversight in the United States for the food they produce. While the quality of commercial pet food varies in
quality, the general problems associated with commercial foods are artificial preservatives, questionable ingredients, processing, aluminum toxicity, refinement, and labeling.Any food product that makes its way into a bag or can to be sold off the shelf must be preserved. Without preservatives the fats in the foods would become rancid. When the fat becomes rancid, all the nutritional value of the food is lost and poisonous toxins are created. While the chemical preservatives, BHA, BHT, ethoxyquin, and sodium metabisulphite, are listed as safe for use in pets foods, they are known to cause problems in pets.
Understanding pet-food labels is the key to helping one determine the quality of the commercial food. While the ingredients of the food on the label are listed in decreasing order of weight, this arrangement of ingredients does not give a consumer a clear idea of the proportions of the ingredients. Meat is going to be heavier than other ingredients, such as wheat, because it contains significantly more water than the wheat. Therefore, meat would be listed before wheat even though there could potentially be a great deal more wheat in the food then meat.
Nourishment for cats must be composed of a wide range of foods that contain macronutrients and micronutrients. Each is a vital part of the feline’s diet. The nutritional and caloric requirements will vary according to their age, weight, and activity levels. There are some commonplace developmental stages that affect the macronutrient and micronutrient needs of the cat. Dietary guidelines can also be affected by the temperature of the cat’s environment.
Raw versus Cooked Foods
Raw foods are definitely more natural for animals. Before the domestication of animals, all they ever ate were raw foods. However, over the thousands of years since the domestication of particular animals not only has man been cooking food and sharing it with them to varying degrees, but also the sources of those natural raw foods from thousands of years ago are no longer as common.
Here are some examples of my diet.
Did you know that a cat is an obligate carnivor. Yes, that is correct, their diet should be mostly meat. The following pictures show the preparation of a raw diet for an adult indoor cat.
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Did you know that every dog should have its own specialized food according to its breed.
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