Cat Raw Recipe

My recipe is modified from this site for Munchie who has heart disease:
http://catinfo.org/?link=makingcatfood

 3 pounds of poultry thigh meat/bones/skin (If using Boneless add the eggshell or bonemeal powder)
 Liver - add 4 ounces of chicken livers per 3 lb of meat/bones/skin.  * For future recipes I am probably going to give 2oz of Liver and 2oz of Kidney as I feel they need the variety of the organs)
    1/2 cup water (or, preferably, more if your cat will eat it with more water)
    2 eggs - use the yolk raw but lightly cook the white
    5000 mg fish oil  Do NOT use cod liver oil!
    400 IU (268 mg) Vitamin E (powdered E in capsules is the easiest to use)
    50 mg Vitamin B-complex (capsules or tablets)
    2,000 mg taurine (use powdered - either in capsules or loose)
    3/4 tsp Morton Lite salt with iodine (contains potassium and sodium - make sure that it contains iodine)         (½) teaspoon of eggshell or bone meal powder is needed per pound of meat and organ ONLY if using Boneless meat
   
My Additional Supplements for Munchie's specific needs for arthrits, bladder and heart health.
2 Glucosamine MSM Tablets 1500mg (so he gets 250mg per day)
Lysine 12 scoops (needs 1 scoop twice a day) 500mg per day so 6000mg is what is needed
2,000mg additional Taurine
400 I.U. addition Vit E

It calls for 1 cup of water but that made it really liquidy so next batch am just going to do 1/2 cup of water.  I put the water in a bowl, then added the eggs and all the supplements and stirred until they dissolved, then added that to the meat mixture and liver, and then blended it up using my Ninja processor.

Munchie my 15# cat needs 2oz per meal twice a day.

Zoey's Mix

So little Miss Zoey (4# chihuahua) is extremely picky when it comes to organs.  So I make her up a mixture of everything she needs for a balanced diet.  I still give her boney meals a couple times a week alternating between rabbit, cornish hens and whole prey mice.  The she gets either chicken, pork, beef, turkey, fish, duck for her other meals that are made into little ice cube shaped cubes.   Zoey loves these little cubes and what she doesn't know is that she eats the organs without problems......won't hurt her :-)  Here is my 'recipe' that I use for her:
14oz meat (beef, chicken, pork, turkey, duck, fish)
4oz beef heart or chicken or rabbit hearts whatever I can find
or 1# Meat
1 oz Liver I use beef or chicken liver.
1 oz Other Secreting Organ kidney, spleen, thymus, pancreas, lung, testicles, or brains.  I mostly used Beef Kidneys as that is what was readily availabe.  I am running low on it so I am going to have to go hunt down some other organs.
1 sardine
1/2 teaspoon ground egg shell
1 raw egg
1 fish oil capsule (1000mg)
2 & 1/2 Vit E (400IU) Capsules
2 oz Vegetables/Blue Berries (I use these as antioxidants for Zoey since she has so many health issues).  I mainly use pumpkin, spinach, broccoli.  Notice if you feed Prey Model Raw, the veggies are usually omitted.  But after research I decided to include this small amount as she needs the antioxidant properties of them. 

Here is her meat thawing

 I put everything into the Ninja and chop/mix it up.

Here it is portioned out in the cubes.  After they are flash frozen, I put them into snack bags and then into a gallon sized ziplocked labeled with what meat it is. 

They are a little more than 1oz per cube, Zoey gets 1 cube twice a day.

Easy Way to Transition Cats...

I have been trying to switch my cats to raw for a few months...little by little.  I have to leave for work by 6am, and I am SOOOOO not a morning person so waiting for my cats to finish eating their chunks of meat is not my favorite option...So a friend on Chi People forum offered to send me a 4# box of http://www.thehonestkitchen.com/products/prowl/ for my cats since hers wouldn't eat it.  I am very happy to say that all of my cats LOVE it!  It is a GREAT option to use to help transition as well as for feeding as a supplement to Raw or in place of Prey Model Raw if that 'weirds' you out lol.  It is a Dehydrated Raw and can be used as a stand alone diet or in addition to your own Raw Diet.  You can even add Cooked Meat/Protein to it if you don't want to go raw.

Right now they just have "Prowl" formula available for Cats but they have lots for dogs!

Here is what it looks like right out of the box

Add water to it, it suggests 1.5 Tablespoon per tablespoon of mix

Wait 5-10 Minutes....if they will let you....this is Munchie investigating...Cedes wanted to eat it right then and there without waiting for it to rehydrate the goof!

DeeJay is 11 & 1/2 years old, so any diet changes are harder for her...but Prowl has been very helpful as she's been having issues with constipation lately.  The week they've been eating it, she's doing a lot better in that area.

Tigglet is still a kitten so she's been easy to switch lol

Mercedes enjoying some

  

Munchie....her food is better lol

Munchie butting in on Tigglets bowl...

 

Yes he can eat out of his own bowl...well Tigglets...

My kitties are now members of the clean bowl club...well almost...but if you notice the stuff that's left is the added Grain Free Canned food I used....