The Best 2 Easy Ways Of Making Raw Cat Food At Home

Consulting a vet is essential before you start, as your cat’s health and environment might necessitate a customized approach. Many pet owners choose home-cooked meals due to their simplicity and reliability. Making raw cat food at home involves more than just meat; it requires a balanced mix of nutrients. This includes organ meats like kidney and liver, fish, calcium, vitamins B and E, omega-3, and water. You can adjust the ingredient quantities to meet your cat’s specific needs.

Easy Ways Of Making Raw Cat Food At Home 

Unlike commercial pet foods, raw food offers a rich source of proteins, minerals, and vitamins, essential for your cat’s growth. However, it’s essential to handle raw food with care to avoid bacterial contamination.

Currently, there are many easy ways of making raw cat food at home, with the most popular being the combination of chicken and rice because chicken and rice are readily available to everyone. A chicken provides its organs as well as an adequate amount of calcium and a high protein source. Another easy method is chicken thighs with bone. I use both methods.

Process 1: Chicken and Rice:

Ingredients

• 1/4 cup of cooked chicken breast
• 1/2 cup of steamed long-grain rice
• 1/2 ounce of chopped canned clams in their juice
• 1 tablespoon of chicken fat
• 1/8 teaspoon of potassium chloride (salt substitute)
• 1/4 crushed multivitamin tablet
• 1/10 crushed vitamin B complex tablet

Mixing Process: 

The first step emphasizes the importance of preparing each ingredient separately, allowing better control over the cooking process and ensuring each component is cooked or prepared as needed. Chopping the chicken into small pieces ensures it blends well with the other ingredients, creating a consistent texture and flavour throughout the dish.

Mixing all the ingredients together evenly distributes flavours and textures, making the dish more enjoyable. Serving the dish immediately after preparation ensures it is fresh and at the optimal temperature for consumption. The final step, removing leftovers after 30 minutes, is crucial for food safety, preventing bacterial growth, and maintaining the dish’s quality.

 

Process 2: Chicken Thighs with Bone

Ingredients

• 5 pounds of bone-in chicken thighs
• 7 ounces of raw chicken liver
• 14 ounces of raw chicken heart
• 8 ounces of bottled spring water
• 4 raw egg yolks
• 2,000 mg of taurine
• 4,000 mg of wild salmon oil
• 200 mg of vitamin B complex
• 200 IU of vitamin E
• 1 ½ teaspoons of lite iodized salt
• 4 teaspoons of psyllium husk powder (optional)

Mixing Process: 

The process begins by removing the skin from half of the chicken thighs while retaining the fat, which ensures that some fat content remains for nutritional value. Deboning 20% to 25% of the thighs helps create a more manageable texture and allows for easier processing. Rinsing the meat is important for cleanliness and preparation. Combining dry supplements and creating a slurry with egg yolks and water ensures that the nutrients are evenly distributed throughout the mixture.

Weighing and chopping the chicken liver, heart, and thigh meat helps in portioning and grinding. Using a meat grinder ensures that the ingredients are finely ground, and adding fish oil capsules intermittently ensures they are evenly distributed. Mixing the ground meat with the slurry and psyllium husk powder helps create a consistent texture. Finally, portioning and storing the mixture in the refrigerator or freezer ensures it remains fresh and ready for use. This method ensures a balanced and nutritious mixture, ideal for specific dietary needs.

Side Effects of Raw Cat Food 

I mentioned earlier that there are good and bad sides to everything. Before choosing an ideal diet for your cat, you should always consider the advantages and disadvantages.

Advantages

• You get to choose the materials as you like.
• You can provide higher-quality nutrition than commercial diets, if desired.
• Depending on your cat’s health, you may want to avoid ingredients that pose a risk to sensitivity, including allergies.
• You can use supplements directly if you want.

Disadvantages

• Raw food can easily carry bacteria such as Salmonella and E. coli, which can spread infection to both cats and humans.
• Balance the same nutrients manually, as in a commercial package, is difficult.
• It has to be stored very carefully, from processing to feeding.
• Its preparation process is time-consuming and expensive.

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