Help on diet

tmasood

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Hi,
I have a young 8-10 week kitten(not sure of the age but it is b/w this). Since I live in a place where getting pet food is quiet difficult, so I am forced to feed human grade food to my kitten. I did some digging on internet and did find some home recipies and using that I have built a diet for my kitty, which is
1/2 pound mince beef or chicken shreds (good in protiens), cooked with
2 tbl spoons of tomato puree or few slices of tomato (good in potassium)
2 tbl spoons of carrot puree or slices (Best source for Vit A)
Few slices potato(Carbohydrates)
1 tea spoon garlic powder
I ocassionaly add baby vitamins just before serving to this meal (takes care of other required minerals and essential vitamins)
1 boiled egg fed over period of three days.
I also occasionaly feed baby cereal along with this.
I think I almost cover all nutritional requirments execpt Iron and calcium

Now what should I add to cover for these.?
IMO since cats like milk but it it said to be not good for cats, why not feed low fat cheese! It is known to be quite high in calcium.

All comments are welcome
 

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Originally Posted by tmasood

Hi,
I have a young 8-10 week kitten(not sure of the age but it is b/w this). Since I live in a place where getting pet food is quiet difficult, so I am forced to feed human grade food to my kitten. I did some digging on internet and did find some home recipies and using that I have built a diet for my kitty, which is
1/2 pound mince beef or chicken shreds (good in protiens), cooked with
2 tbl spoons of tomato puree or few slices of tomato (good in potassium)
2 tbl spoons of carrot puree or slices (Best source for Vit A)
Few slices potato(Carbohydrates)
1 tea spoon garlic powder
I ocassionaly add baby vitamins just before serving to this meal (takes care of other required minerals and essential vitamins)
1 boiled egg fed over period of three days.
I also occasionaly feed baby cereal along with this.
I think I almost cover all nutritional requirments execpt Iron and calcium

Now what should I add to cover for these.?
IMO since cats like milk but it it said to be not good for cats, why not feed low fat cheese! It is known to be quite high in calcium.

All comments are welcome
If you cook the meat, the taurine will disappear from it. If your cat does not get taurine, she will suffer problems and eventually die. I would not feed garlic to a cat since it could lead to some kind of anemia (Heinz bodies are formed). Cats do not need veggies and carbohydrates. (carbohydrates have been linked to feline diabetes)

I would avise you to feed raw meat to make sure she gets taurine. You also really need a calcium source, you can feed bone to cats, as long as they are raw (cooked bones are dangerous) and not too big. You could also put eggshells in a coffee grinder, grind them to powder and mix that with meat. The only thing there is to raw feeding: feed 5-10 % organ meat (half being liver, the rest heart, kidneys etc), 10-15% edible bone and the rest meat, fat, skin etc. Feed it raw. Easiest thing is to use whole prey animals, for a small kitten I would start small with whatever small animals you can find where you live (i feed chicks, quail, mice, rats, rabbit). As an alternative you take pieces of bigger animals, but the parts with soft bone, like the ribcage of a chicken, as long as you stick to the percentages above. Red meats and heart are good because they have lots of taurine.

If I were you I would try to find a rawfeeding sites or lists like these:
http://www.rawfedcats.org/
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/rawcat/
 
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