Homemade Cat Food Recipes Biography
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The raw meat cat food recipe I developed in the period of 1995-1997, subsequent to starting my own cats on homemade cat food and founding the “Feline Future Foundation” with co-creator Scott Baker, has become the bread and butter to many who feed a raw meat diet to cats today. I would even say that my recipe is the most popular raw meat cat food recipe in use, shared and republished countless times in various medias to eventually even appear on WikiHow.
See what the recipe looked like in 1997!
Scott Baker and I approached the subject of feline nutrition with a deep passion for cats, and our devotion to their well-being has been an inspiration to thousands over the years.
The recipe first appeared in 1996 as a single sheet info hand-out and then as “The Recipe for our Nutriment for Cats” as part of a 39 page information booklet called “Nurturing the True Carnivore” published by the Feline Future Foundation. The first online version of the recipe, and revised formula without vegetables, was published by us on the felinefuture.com website in 1997 for a much greater and global audience.
Leave through a 1999 version of the “Nurturing the True Carnivore” booklet
The recipe was published in conjunction with us making a pre-made frozen raw cat food which sold very successfully in Vancouver, BC (Canada) and area.
In 1998 the idea of the raw cat food PREMIX was born, because distribution of our pre-made frozen raw cat food became an impossibility after we moved with our 19 cats to Salt Spring Island, BC. The raw cat food premix, now known as “TCfeline”, supplies all the ingredients of the food or recipe except for the meat, which customers add fresh. The premix became extremely popular and sold throughout the world within a few years of when I first created it.
Around that time we befriended Ms. Michelle Bernard who had contacted us about raw feeding and our experience with it, and later, in 1999, proof-read our book “The Backyard Predator”. All this inspired her to write her own book “Raising Cats Naturally” based on her “Raw Feeding Notes” – a diary she had kept while transitioning her American Shorthair cats to raw with our help. Ann Jablonski, in turn, was inspired to feed raw by Michelle Bernard’s book, and re-published the original recipe on her now well-known catnutrition.org website. Ann Jablonski’s website was, in part, the reason why Dr. Lisa Pierson explored raw feeding, which resulted in the creation of the popular catinfo.org website. Over the years, Dr. Pierson made good alterations to the recipe based on her own experience. From here, the recipe was even used to create commercially available frozen raw cat foods.
See what the recipe looked like when we published “The Backyard Predator” 1999. This is the most distributed recipe! Note the copyright notice on the bottom right, which everyone ignored, resulting in the recipe becoming a global sensation among cat lovers.
Here is the original recipe and a recipe using whole ground chicken from our Feline Future website in 2002. Some of the more difficult-to-source ingredients had been omitted at that time to make the recipes more user-friendly. The benefits of these ingredients had never been proven.
Although most people today, nearly 20 years later, can no longer trace the innovator of this unique raw cat food recipe, I am nonetheless so pleased that the results of my work are so popular and a truly functional and beneficial alternative that has gained global acceptance.
This website still features my original cat food recipe in an updated version
With multinational companies like Purina mass producing cheap cat food in places like China, where controls are limited even for products meant for human consumption, many people are beginning to go back to the basics for their pets. If you would like to surprise your kitty with a wonderful treat, or even transition entirely to homemade kitty food, consider these guidelines, recipes, books and websites as a starting point.
Ingredients to Avoid
As tasty as a chocolate-covered mouse may sound, this is definitely a no-no for kitty. Chocolate, in general aggravates the tummies of many of our animal companions, not just cats. Some other ingredients to avoid in homemade cat food include:
Garlic
Onions
Raisins
Raw Egg whites
Tomatoes
Grapes
While the above ingredients must be avoided, any regular cat food diet must also include a number of ingredients, but especially animal protein. You may be okay being vegan, but your cat certainly will not thrive on a diet of tempeh and tofu! Your cat is a carnivore and there is no way around this evolutionary fact. Cats need between 60% and 80% meat protein in order to acquire enough essential amino acids such as taurine, arginine, lysine and cysteine. Not getting enough taurine, for example, will make your kitty blind.
The Essentials
Animal Protein:
The protein in your cat’s diet should come from chicken (or other poultry), beef, pork, rabbit, fish or liver. Liver is especially important because it is chock-full of Vitamin A and cats cannot produce this vitamin on their own. Variety is important, so you should not just feed your cat liver or straight fish on a daily basis. The other essential ingredients include:
Animal Fats:
Not only does animal fat make food tastier, this essential ingredients is also mandatory for healthy skin and fur, as well the circulatory and urinary systems. Kittens need about 35% fat while adult cats thrive on a diet of about 30% fat.
Calcium to Phosphorus Ratio (Ca:P):
The ratio between calcium and phosphorus should be 1 part calcium to to 1.3 parts phosphorus. The easiest way to accomplish this ratio is to add calcium supplements. Commercial cat food usually uses bone meal. If you choose to use bone meal only use a product meant for human consumption, not one intended for gardening. Veternarian Dr. Pierson is a supporter of grinding up bone herself and says it is much easier than it sounds.
Water:
Homemade cat food will ideally be 10% to 30% water weight.
The second part of the question is easy to answer: I really love cats.
The first part of the question takes a bit more explaining.
I never imagined that I would become such an outspoken veterinarian regarding matters of optimal feline nutrition and care given that my primary focus straight out of veterinary school was equine medicine. I never dreamed that I would end up writing pages and pages detailing how to make a healthy diet for cats, or passionately discussing the prevention and management of feline diabetes and urinary tract diseases, or writing about the dangers of ‘dry pilling’ cats, or putting a litter box-cleaning video on the internet especially considering the fact that the World Wide Web was years away from even existing when I graduated from the University of California, Davis School of Veterinary Medicine in 1984!
So how did I become so deeply passionate about cat nutrition, general care, and the various medical conditions that affect the cats that we share our lives with?
Austin, Robbie, and Anne Jablonski.
Let’s start with Austin who I am pretty sure was a long lost love from a former life. I adopted Austin from a shelter when he was 4 years old. His time was running out and I am a sucker for the adults that nobody wants. Plus, brown tabbies really do something for me. Our hearts were instantly connected and when I had to say goodbye to him in 1998, I was devastated. I still cry over him.
After losing Austin, I wanted to do something to honor him so I started volunteering with a local cat rescue organization, TLC Adoptions, to pay tribute to my very sweet boy. Over the next 13 years, I rescued and placed approximately 550 cats and kittens in homes.
Unfortunately, I saw very quickly that we could never adopt our way out of the overpopulation crisis since the math just does not add up. There are FAR more kittens being born each minute than there are available homes.
The answer lies in getting humans to become more responsible about spaying and neutering.
During my years of involvement in the rescue world, I spent many long hours doing TNR work (Trap/Neuter/Return) of feral (wild/unowned) cats in order to prevent the suffering endured by homeless cats and kittens living in a concrete jungle and to try to make a dent in the large number of unwanted kitties that lose their lives in shelters every day.
I would often go on periodic 3-4 day-long trapping marathons to stabilize large feral colonies using traps that I designed and built for increased efficiency. This would entail starting to trap at around 7 or 8 PM, staying out until 4 or 5 AM, then performing surgery until all of the cats were spayed or neutered. After a few hours of sleep, I would get up and start all over again.
I wish that I could say that rescue work is all about warm and fuzzy feelings - and no sadness - but that could not be further from the reality of the situation. After spending 13 years heavily involved in rescue work - and having it exact a tremendous toll on my heart - I am now taking a bit of a break and concentrating more on helping cats live better lives all around the world through my website.
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