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COOKING FOR FLUFFY: Healthy Home-Made Feline Diets

SLS-001, 24 pages, 5.5 x 8.5, softcover, saddle-stitched, B&W illus., $9.95

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Introduction

How to Make Homemade Cat Food

Ingredients:

      Meats, Grains & Starches, Vegetables, Juice & Stock,

      Nuts, Oil & Seasoning, Medication & Supplements

Side Dishes and Treats: Dairy Products, Salads

No-No’s

Purchasing Your Ingredients:

     Canned? Frozen? Fresh?

     Buying in Bulk – and on Sale!

     Vitamins and Other Supplements

Preparing the Mix

Making a Supply of Mix

Weekly Preparation

Cooking

Serving

SAMPLE EXCERPTS

"... Commercial cat food is convenient, but as many experts have pointed out, even the highest-end products are made of the lowest quality ingredients and contain any number of meat toxins, hormones, and animals fats that are not fit for humans. Add to those the chemical preservatives and artificial additives such as color and flavoring, many of which are known carcinogens. Then there are the molds and allergens and the chemical contaminants (such as lead, pesticides, and pollutants). And when you read the term “meat by-products” on the pet food label, this refers to such things as leather meal, fecal waste, fetal tissue, glandular waste, animal hair, connective tissues, and feather meal. In some states the laws even allow manufacturers of pet food to use tissues from animals that are classified as “4-D” sources: dead, dying, disabled, or diseased. Many commercial cat foods contain non-food items, such as peanut hulls. These same foods are also deficient in vitamin B-complex and other vitamins and minerals, or do not allow the absorption and usage of nutrients they do contain. Think of how all of this could be affecting your cat’s health. And don’t you think it must be pretty boring for your cat to eat that same processed food day in and day out? ...
 

... Thaw out a two-day serving of meat and a two-day serving of mix as soon as you are down to about the last two meals/servings of food.

Use a deep frying pan, cast iron skillet, or a wok. I prefer the latter because I am cooking for four and it is easier to stir everything up in the wok without it splattering all over. Place about one tablespoon of oil per cat in the bottom of the pan. Put the meat and the veggie mix in the pan. Lightly salt to taste. Add just a touch of garlic if you like, but remember that your house will smell of it from the cat’s bowl and your cat’s breath will smell likewise. Add enough water to make it about the consistency of a loose slurry. Stir until it is completely blended but still watery.

Stir periodically while heating until the meat is thoroughly cooked. For my four cats that takes about ten minutes maximum. Depending on your stove and the pan you cook in, you may need more or less cooking time.

While the food is cooking, grind up any nutritional supplements or herbal medications you want to add to the food. Once the food is done cooking, spoon it into a plastic container, cover it, and place it in the refrigerator. About six hours later when the mix has cooled, you can stir in the ground up nutritional supplements or herbs, or you can add the avocado and/or ground nuts. ..."