Cat cookbook: Make your own cat food - Cat cookbook with delicious recipes

By Roswitha Berger

More than 90% of cats get ready-made food from the can or the bag. This does not have to be. Give your cats a treat and cook the food yourself.

The book deals comprehensively with the demands on the diet of cats and also takes into account the psychological aspects associated with food intake. Some cats strictly refuse to touch anything that is unknown to them. Other cats even become little bullies. They "force" their humans to give them the food they like. In the book you will learn how to cope with these problems and what to consider when feeding the little tigers.

The topics in the book are extensive:
- Ancestral eating habits and how they changed over time.
- What cats need to eat and what harms them.
- Explanations to the topics raw, defrosted or cooked as well as vegetarian or vegan nutrition.
- Tips for changing the food
- Feeding methods: Raw, Franken-Prey and Prey-Model-RAW
- Ingredients and preservation of the food

In addition, the book contains a comprehensive collection of recipes:
- Small menus for special occasions with meat and fish.
- Raw food with supplement
- Dry snacks made of fish, meat and cheese

Reading the book will help you better understand your cat and feed the animal healthy. If you make the food yourself, you will have a full overview of what your cat gets. You have the assurance that the cat food is free of dyes, preservatives, grains and sugar.

For good reason, the book is not simply limited to recipes, but provides a comprehensive knowledge of cat nutrition. Have fun and bon appétit!

• Language: English
• Publisher: XinXii
• Release date: Apr 16, 2022
• ISBN: 9783986469252

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Cat Cookbook

Make your own cat food -

The cat cookbook with delicious recipes

Roswitha Berger

Table of contents

List of Figures

Now I make the cat food myself

Back to nature or better not?

This is how the wild ancestors fed themselves

The long way from the wild cat to the sofa cat

The problem of natural nutrition

Advantages and disadvantages of home prepared food

What the cat really needs

Meat

Fish

Fat

Cartilage and bone

Offal

Vegetables and spices

Vitamins, minerals, taurine and co.

What your cat should not eat

Health aspects of cat food

Raw, thawed or cooked?

Vegetarian and vegan diet

Consistency and taste

Great pieces versus one-size-fits-all

Sense of taste of cats

Why is sugar in cat food?

Is purchased feed really optimal?

Switching to homemade cat food?

Natural hunting behavior of cats

Assert yourself

Almost hopeless - food changes in free-rangers

Finding the right composition

Use supplements

Rebuild a mouse with "Franken-Prey

Prey Model Raw (PMR) - Feeding small animals

Procurement of ingredients

Basic equipment for the cat kitchen

Basic information about the recipes

Quantities in the recipe

Determine the right portion size

Encourage drinking

Consider sauce and jellies

Three aspects you must never lose sight of.

Handling ingredients and feed

Defrosting

Freeze

Boiling down the feed

The collection of recipes

Small menus for special occasions

Meat menus

Offal is delicious

Menus with liver

Fish menus

Barfen - raw food for the cat

Recipes with supplement

Recipes by "Franken-Prey

Recipes according to Franken-Prey + Supplement

Dry snacks for in between

Treats with fish

Cat cookies with fish

Treats with meat

Cat cookies with meat

Drying fresh meat for cat treats

Treats with cheese

Treats from ready meals

Other treats

Broths, soups, sauces and jellies

Cooking with ready meals

Making cat food more complete

About our series: My cat for life

Imprint

List of Figures

Figure 1: Our little cat loves homemade food. Majabechner

Figure 2: African wildcat

Figure 4: Comparison No. 1 with and without sauce,

Figure 5: Comparison No. 2 with and without sauce,

Figure 6: Comparison No. 3 with and without sauce,

Figure 7: Our summoned cat examines the food in its own way.

Figure 8: This is what normal minced meat looks like.

Figure 9: Our cute cat eating.

Figure 10: Some cats prefer water dispensers to bowls.

Figure 11: The cats love our drinking fountain, © rgladel

Figure 12: Various baking mats from us made of silicone.

Now I make the cat food myself

More than 90 % of the house tigers get ready-made food from a can or a bag. The diet seems to be excellent for the animals. Despite this, the trend to make your own cat food is emerging. Unfortunately, there are many misconceptions about what a cat needs. Not infrequently, chronic diseases develop because the cat owner has fed incorrectly for years. Some well-meaning people even unknowingly poison their cat.

For good reason, the book is not limited simply to recipes, but provides a comprehensive knowledge of cat nutrition.

Figure 1: Our little cat loves homemade food. Majabechner

Back to nature or better not?

The advocates of the natural diet of cats usually forget two essential factors. The cats, accustomed to humans for centuries, are hardly willing today to accept the food that your ancestors ate. The other aspect concerns the owner. Even an animal-loving person certainly does not like prey animals in the apartment.

This is how the wild ancestors fed themselves

Figure 2: African wildcat

The common ancestor of all domestic and pedigree cats is the African dun cat (Felis lybica lybica). The animals fed primarily on smaller rodents. Second on the menu were birds and other small animals, such as lizards. Larger animals such as hares or rabbits were captured only in exceptional cases. Falcats base their diet on the prey they find in the environment and they are very adaptable. In an arid region in Botswana, for example, they feed mainly on roller spiders. In Namibia, insect remains were found in 70% of fecal samples.

Many domestic cats also occasionally chase and eat spiders. This shows that even pampered cats will enthusiastically eat insects or earthworms they have killed themselves. A mini snack always seems welcome.

The long way from the wild cat to the sofa cat

A tomb that was laid out on Cyprus around 7,500 BC contained skeletons that lay symmetrically to each other, of a human and a cat at a distance of 40 centimeters. From this it can be concluded that already at that time there was a close relationship between cats and humans. Such a long coexistence with people certainly did not pass the diet of cats.

Presumably, our ancestors initially tolerated the cats only because they kept rodents away from the supplies. But it can also be assumed that the animals got slaughterhouse waste and food leftovers of the people. The life that cats lead on farms or that stray cats have in big cities is probably about the same as what cats led for thousands of years near people. They ate even killed booty animals and what there was otherwise after at edible.

Many cats are no longer willing to eat a mouse whole. Some refuse raw food. The idea that a species-appropriate diet necessarily means that the cat will only eat mice and chicks is not entirely true.

Today, we humans no longer eat the way we did 10,000 years ago. Even if some specialists are of the opinion that the diet was healthier back then, a high life expectancy and increase in body size speak for the modern diet. Transferred to the cat this means: Even a sofa cat needs food that corresponds to the composition of a mouse. However, it does not need to consume mice or raw meat to reach a healthy old age.

The problem of natural nutrition

The organism of cats copes with almost all germs that live in the prey animals. This means that the animals do not fall