The reason why making
homemade cat food as opposed to giving your cat food a commercial diet bowls down to three very important reasons, which are the health of your cat, money, and time.
Not exact matches
Cats need a high protein, high moisture diet such
as canned,
homemade, or raw
food.
Complete and balanced commercial
cat foods have enough taurine but diets that are not complete and balanced (labeled
as for intermittent or supplemental use only), vegetarian diets or
homemade diets can be too low in this nutrient.
For Dr. Jean's
homemade diet recipe,
as well
as in - depth info on
cat food and nutrition, please see her ebook, What
Cats Should Eat, in our Bookstore or on Amazon.com.
As a bonus, most
cats transition easily to
homemade food and truly thrive on a real
food diet.
Homemade cat food recipes are becoming more and more popular
as many owners are turning away from commercial pet
food.
Now,
as discussed on the diets page, you can not make a
homemade raw
food diet that is safe for your
cat and is nutritionally balanced unless you are working with a veterinary nutritionist.
EVO is marketed
as being a good supplement or alternative to raw
food or
homemade cat food diets.
Many
cat owners have turned to raw
food diets, or making
homemade cat food recipes where meals are cooked much
as you would cook a meal for a person.
There are many different possibilities of
homemade, raw or commercial diet, but it's important to feed your
cat as high quality
food as he will accept.
Homemade cat food does not make your
cat sic k,
as long
as you're making it properly, whereas commercial depletes their health.
Even though
cats eating a wet diet (such
as canned, raw, or
homemade food) tend to drink less water, it must still be provided — especially now,
as the weather warms up and summer really gets going!
This may be
homemade, such
as ham baby
food with white rice, or commercial
cat food, such
as duck and potato, or rabbit and green pea.
As someone involved in
cat rescue for over 20 years, I can honestly say that an increasing number of people in the community have found a decent quality canned
food or
homemade diet to be equal to (or in most cases far better than) an overpriced, highly artificial prescription dry
food diet for both diabetic and CRF
cats, and the
cats fed these better diets tend to be happier and have better quality life.