Homemade Cat Food

Some people wrongly think that to give pets industrial products is a is a too comfortable option and they work hard cooking fresh home made food.

The money you save is so little if your looking for variety and a balanced diet at the same time, while the time you take and the effort you make is multiplied, and the necessity makes you to have to complement the diet with vitamins and minerals.

For example, a cat that usually is fed with fish and meat cooked at home requires you to give him additional doses of calcium, thiamine and taurine, as regular doses of codfish liver oil to obtain vitamins A and D, without it having an excess of other nutrients.

One thing is to give them once in a while meat or fish to eat, always that the cat understands that this is only on occasions and not on a daily basis.

To offer small portions of normal food, warmed lightly for them to smell more, is a good method to encourage a surgical operation or of an stressing situation.

Tasty food as is minced meat, chicken, fish with spine and all (fresh, frozen or canned) or liver doesn't do any harm to a healthy cat, but veterinarians usually don't recommend them.

Nutritional needs
On general terms, an adult healthy cats diet must be composed of 31% of proteins, 41% of fats and 28% of carbohydrates. However, the labels on foods are not easy to understand and it's complicated to find out the average values.

On one hand, the needs of these nutrients vary in function of the age of the cat. The best solution is to buy a type of food with all in it, from a quality brand, appropriate to the age of the cat, and to consult the veterinary in case of doubts.

If your cat usually leaves rests of food on the dish, reduce gradually the portion until you see that he leaves nothing.

With difference to dogs, almost all cats like to eat slowly and several times.

Water
The quantity of water that usually drinks a common cat is of 200 ml. Per day, although it varies in great measure depending on the diet they have.

On the wild world, they obtain mist of it from the hunted preys, composed of 70% of water. In the case of domestic cats, the water they ingest comes mainly from what they eat, overall if they are canned foods, but it is advisable to always have at its disposition a bowl of fresh water and to observe when they drink. If your cat empties systematically the bowl of water and the veterinary discharges illnesses as the diabetes or hyperthyroidism, pour some warm water over the food to increase its levels of liquids, due that the absence of water can cause urinary problems.