vet-toon: Homemade Cat Food Diets

if you can boil water, you can become a cat chef too!

Animal ingredients (meat and eggs) should be cooked for at least 10 minutes at 82ºC	Vegetables ingredients should be at least washed or rinse, and cooked if increased digestibility is desired.	Keep the food in airtight containers and mix it well before each feeding. You must, on daily basis, be aware of color and odor changes, which may indicate spoilage or deterioration.
All items should be blended together to prevent your pet from picking out single food items. A nutritionally balanced homemade food could result in an imbalanced intake of nutrients if ingredients are allowed to separate and the animal does not consume the entire food mixture.
If building a new homemade diet, feed the meat and grain source tolerated by pet for 3-6 days, then add the fat (if prescribed) for another 3 days, then add the vegetables (if prescribed) the next 3 days, and if all is tolerated then add in the supplement. It is by method you will build a balanced diet tolerated by the pet.
At the first sign of food intolerance; such as vomiting, diarrhea, decreased appetite, weight loss or food rejection; offer old food and seek veterinary attention if clinical sign continue for more than 24 hrs or become serious.

Reference:

Rebecca L. Remillard, Ph.D., D.V.M., DACVN, Veterinary Nutrition, MSPCA-Angell Boston. http://support.mspca.org/site/DocServer/MSPCA-Angell_Generic_HM_cat_diet.pdf?docID=1561

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