Your cats wellness depends on the care in which they receive in your home. Feeding a balanced organic diet is the foundation to your cat's health.
Benefits of Homemade Organic Cat Food
A healthy pet is a happy pet. And, in today’s fast society, the family feline is often times ignored when it comes to the nutrition on their dinner plate. You cat's wellness depends on the care in which they receive in your home. Just like switching to a fruit, vegetable and protein diet with exercise in a human creates a balanced mind, increased energy, and body strength; in your feline, a holistic, healthy and organic balanced diet is the fundamental foundation for your cat’s wellness in life.
Just as your pet provides health benefits in your home, you need to provide your pet with proper nutrition so they can reach optimimum health. Having a pet is known to improve the moods of their owners, relieve stress, relieve high blood pressure, combat loneliness and provide unconditional love.
Knowing your feline can have a life expectancy of twenty to thirty years, proper nutrition is vital. One step that will improve your feline’s wellness and maintain health is switching to an organic, holistic, cat food. Organic cat foods contain no artificial chemicals or genetically modified products which has tremendous influences on your feline’s long term wellness.
Preparing your feline’s dish can be done in your own kitchen. Many owners are opting to make their own organic cat food, which is quite simple. All ingredients can be purchased at your local grocery store and the following list of ingredients will provide you with the most balanced organic cat food recipe you can create for your feline friend.
Grocery List
Grocery List:
1. Purchase meat that is antibiotic and hormone free, in other words, fresh and organic. Choice selections of meats are whole chicken, turkey thighs, whole rabbit, and whole guinea fowl.
2. Purchase organ meat. It is extremely important to purchase organ meat that is from non-medicated animals and is organic.
3. Psyllium. Psyllium can be found in most grocer and health food stores and should be purchased as lose husk powder.
4. Dulse and kelp. These are trace minerals which should be added to your feline’s food.
5. Salmon oil. Salmon oil provides fatty acids for the feline and will help with her smooth coat.
6. Glandular supplement. These are supplements that are made from the glands of animals such as the spleen, brain and heart and provide an excellent source of nutrients.
7. Vitamin E. Vitamin E and B complex provided balanced vitamins and nutrients for your feline’s food.
8. If not in your kitchen, you will need to select an electric grinder to purchase. This will make the chore of grinding much easier.
Organic Cat Food Recipe
How to make your organic cat food:
1. Clean your grinder and plug it in.
2. Gather together your ingredients.
3. Take the animal carcass and cut it up into large pieces.
4. Leaving just a shaving of the bone attached, cut the meat from the bones and set bones aside in a large bowl.
5. Cut the meat into feline bite sized chunks.
6. Gather your organ meat. This should be 7 oz of raw liver. and 14 oz of animal raw heart meat.
7. Place the organ meat with the bones.
8. Add four egg yolks to the bowl of bones and organ meat.
9. Add your dry ingredients in a separate bowl. 4 capsules glandular supplement, 200mg vitamin B, 4000g salmon oil, 800 IU vitamin E. ¼ tsp. of both dulse and kelp and 4tsp. of psyllium.
10. Grind the meaty bones and organ meat.
11. Stir in the meat chunks to the ground bones and organs.
12. Add supplement mixture and stir well.
13. Spoon into small containers for freezer storing. Fill container ½ from top.
14. Label each jar and put the appropriate date.
15. Each container should stay in the freezer no longer than three months.
Of course, if you don't believe you have the time to make your own, you can always purchase top-rated organic cat food.
Photo Credit: http://www.flickr.com/photos/rene_ehrhardt/2391328062/
Disclaimer:
Before changing your cat's diet you may want to consult your veterinarian. Please read this full disclaimer regarding the contents of this article.