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Home Cooking for cats?!

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♥The- Brat- Pack♥-

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Barked: Wed Jun 23, '10 1:04am PST 
Do you home cookers out there home cook for your cat(s) as well? If So how does it differ?
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Sassy

Princess and the- Pea		 
 
Barked: Wed Jun 23, '10 7:09am PST 
The only thing I know is you must watch the level of some minerals in cat food and you must be absolutely certain there is taurine in it. Sassy gets taurine supplements, I don't think cooking preserves it at all and some dogs really need it. Just read across the first turquoise chart on this page to see how cooking destroys taurine.
http://web.archive.org/web/20070116093635/http://www.serve .com/BatonRouge/taurine_chmr.htm

http://www.peteducation.com/arti cle.cfm?c=1+1399&aid=2575
is an overview on cat nutrition.

http://web.archive.org/web/20061016171022/www.serve.co m/BatonRouge/nutr.htm
is an old website that has a lot of interesting pages on it.

And to top it off, cats are imprinted on food much more than dogs so can be very difficult to change to a fresh food diet! If I had a cat it would absolutely be put on a raw diet. Cooking would be much more difficult.
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Addy, CGC

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Barked: Wed Jun 23, '10 7:33am PST 
Any supplements should be added AFTER cooking, not before. For dogs or cats.

Whole ground mouse would be a good choice for feeding cats. big grin
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Sassy

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Barked: Wed Jun 23, '10 7:52am PST 
Only minerals can be added before cooking. I used to open capsules of taurine and mix with a bedtime treat of canned tripe or peanut butter but Sassy won't go for that any longer and she gets it pilled now. Some say taurine needs to be ingested away from food but that really seems odd to me.

That ground mouse needs to be eaten raw. I cannot imagine cooking it anyway. Eww.
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♥The- Brat- Pack♥-

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Barked: Thu Jun 24, '10 1:28am PST 
"Whole ground mouse would be a good choice for feeding cats"

LOL My cat is a country cat and comes and goes as he pleases he gets LOTS of mice in his diet LOL
big laugh
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Snickers

I'm a 50-pound- lapdog :)		 
 
Barked: Thu Jun 24, '10 7:41pm PST 
Sassy is correct. Many nutrients can easily be destroyed by the cooking process or even re-heating food via microwave. If the cat food is cooked, I would always add supplements after it's cooked. Also, If possible try to only lightly cook it.

A solid website for making cat food:
http://www.catinfo.org/index.htm

The previous link focuses mainly on raw food but also mentions cooking for cats. Also, make sure the diet is balanced. Cats have more specific nutritional requirements than dogs. Do extensive research before preparing your own cat food.

I personally feed my cats prepared raw food (nature's variety) and a few other high-quality canned foods, in rotation.
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