One Health

Hi all, hoping to get some advice! I have 2 cats, 1 senior or one kitten that arrived in the snow right before Xmas. I was advised by my vet that my senior cat would do better with a 75% chicken 25% rice homemade chicken cat food, no seasonings or oils, just cooked and given to her. She hasn't been eating her food, or the other cats food, or the"emergency food" wet food. I am thinking to add chicken livers/hearts for adding nutrients. Has anyone switched to homemade cat food from crunchy/wet mix?

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Amelia Brooks
Animal Welfare Coordinator
Happy Tails Animal Rescue
CA
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Tyrone Pierce
Veterinarian
Maryland Hospital
MD
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For awhile, back when I had time (before I opened an animal rescue!) I would make my dogs' and cats' food.  I ran the recipe by my vet and he loved it.  I do have a meat grinder, which was very handy.  I would buy the bags of chicken leg quarters (very cheap) and boil it all up.  Then I would run it through the grinder (all of it).  In the water/broth I would then dissolve Vitamin E, some salt, taurine (available in health food stores).....I might be forgetting something, it's been a minute.  And then I would cook rice in the mixture.  I would scramble up a bunch of eggs, and put all of that (with the shells) through the grinder too.  All of the wet stuff got made into a slurry.  I would use that for the cats, and add the rice to the dogs' food (my cats were not rice fans).  I put all of this into portions in freezer bags, and every day I would take one out to defrost for them.  The cooking part took a few hours but then I had food for a long time.  I had googled the recipe online.  The taurine is very important for muscle development.  I don't know if this is something that would work for you but maybe it will give you some ideas.  I might have had a B12 vitamin in there too, don't remember.  All the seniors I've had loved human baby food (meats) when they were in the end of life stage and wouldn't eat anything else.  Bless you for caring about your senior.