Home made cat food

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I have a very fussy cat with a throat condition which makes it hard for her to eat some foods. I’m thinking I might start making her food myself, does anyone have any advice / recipes? Thanks

I wouldn’t advise it, she may end up missing vital nutrients -taurine deficiency for example can cause them horrendous health issues.

Just find a food she likes the taste of and maybe blend it if she struggles to swallow it?

No you can't do that without causing ricketts or similar. There are essential amino acids like taurine that cats can only get from food. Proprietary foods have it added in. There's lots of cat soup type diets around that should be easy to swallow. Hills do a diet called a/d that's like mousse and used in animals that are convalescing.

I’d try cat soup and/or recovery food from the vets. Anything you make at home won’t be a complete food and will leave her lacking in vital nutrients.

Of course you can. It might be expensive though. Different kinds of meat for every meal, with an emphasis on offal and fatty, chewy cuts.

Thanks for the advice, I’ll ask my vet tomorrow.

You absolutely can make your own food, but it’s expensive and you need to supplement taurine as cats can die without it in their diets.

I personally wouldn’t speak to a vet as they generally don’t tend to know too much about home cooking and feeding for animals - try and find a feline nutritionist.

How did they cope before cat food was invented (relatively recently).

They’d hunt and often eat the whole animal including crucially muscle, organs and even small bones. From that they could achieve just about a complete diet but still would have been very unlikely to live as long as your average domestic moggie today. OP’s cat is struggling with eating regular cat food due to a throat condition so it seems highly unlikely they’d manage a whole mouse bones and all so whatever she did make at home would need to be carefully supplemented. So I think she’d be far better off looking for a complete cat food her cat can eat- a veterinary recovery food could work as could cat soup. But asking the vet for advice is also a really good idea- hopefully they can help OP!

Update, my vet has said that I can temporarily give Ivy home made food to try to encourage her to eat more, but more permanently she will need the additional taurine etc as some of you thought. He recommends chicken, fish, scrambled egg, cottage cheese, rice, prawns! Not too shabby for my rescue cat! 🤣🤣