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I'm torn because my cats are noticeably healthier eating my homemade food but they often hate it.
I have two cats, one is 9 years old and the other is about a year old, and they are best buddies. I started learning how to make cat food because my older cat was sick after eating commercial food his whole life. He's made a dramatic transformation on homemade cat food, from being very sick to now having shiny fur, better teeth, and he looks younger now. He's not in perfect shape and is still overweight, but he's doing much better. The younger cat is really healthy and energetic too.
I have been making the cat food using the recipe at My Diet | CAT LADY FITNESS - Raw Cat Food & Apparel by Puppy the Cat . I have been using hamburger meat (from my family's farm raised cow) instead of chicken, and eggshells as a bone substitute, because that's what I have. I don't have access to chicken hearts but I put chicken liver in the food like it says. I also cook the livers and the brown the outside of the meat, for fear of bacteria. The last batch I left raw to see if they would eat it, and they ate it at first but are already tired of it.
The cats have been eating the food on and off the whole time, sometimes they like it and sometimes they don't. Right now my older cat has been eating the food and the younger cat refuses to eat. My dad (I take care of my cats but they are at my parent's house) gives the young cat dry food (Purina indoor chow) in the afternoon because she begs loudly. She is now addicted to it and is refusing to eat other food.
My older cat goes through spurts of liking and hating the homemade food and really wants to eat dry food but I don't give it to him because he doesn't drink water (I put extra water in his food). He also throws up commercial food like Fancy Feast, 9Lives, and Purina so he can't eat those.
I briefly fed both cats Freshpet cat food in the tubes but they got tired of it and refused to eat.
Am I doing something wrong? Are my meat choices ok? How do I make the cat food taste better for the cats?
I have two cats, one is 9 years old and the other is about a year old, and they are best buddies. I started learning how to make cat food because my older cat was sick after eating commercial food his whole life. He's made a dramatic transformation on homemade cat food, from being very sick to now having shiny fur, better teeth, and he looks younger now. He's not in perfect shape and is still overweight, but he's doing much better. The younger cat is really healthy and energetic too.
I have been making the cat food using the recipe at My Diet | CAT LADY FITNESS - Raw Cat Food & Apparel by Puppy the Cat . I have been using hamburger meat (from my family's farm raised cow) instead of chicken, and eggshells as a bone substitute, because that's what I have. I don't have access to chicken hearts but I put chicken liver in the food like it says. I also cook the livers and the brown the outside of the meat, for fear of bacteria. The last batch I left raw to see if they would eat it, and they ate it at first but are already tired of it.
The cats have been eating the food on and off the whole time, sometimes they like it and sometimes they don't. Right now my older cat has been eating the food and the younger cat refuses to eat. My dad (I take care of my cats but they are at my parent's house) gives the young cat dry food (Purina indoor chow) in the afternoon because she begs loudly. She is now addicted to it and is refusing to eat other food.
My older cat goes through spurts of liking and hating the homemade food and really wants to eat dry food but I don't give it to him because he doesn't drink water (I put extra water in his food). He also throws up commercial food like Fancy Feast, 9Lives, and Purina so he can't eat those.
I briefly fed both cats Freshpet cat food in the tubes but they got tired of it and refused to eat.
Am I doing something wrong? Are my meat choices ok? How do I make the cat food taste better for the cats?