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Hi all,
My cat eats a home cooked meal recipe prescribed by his vet, which consists of:
125g of turkey escalope
4g of Vit'i5 (French meal completer)
7ml of canola oil
55g of zucchini
I really want to change the oil in the recipe. I've noticed it gets "stuck" to the fur on his chin and he has a slight inflammation to it now - it could be an allergic reaction to the food in general, but I'd like to try changing just the oil first to see if it will make a difference. In parallel to that, I've also started cleaning his chin with warm water after each meal (will use Vetericyn Plus Antimicrobial Feline Facial Therapy once it arrives).
Thing is, I know the recipe is supposed to be properly balanced. I'm scared of changing the oil on my own and getting the amount of omega 3 and 6 wrong. A few oils that have been recommended to me on facebook were: coconut, avocado, salmon, or Agepi pills. The recipe also "allegedly" takes my cat's constipation issues into account - though I've tried an online home cooked calculator that doesn't take any health concerns into account at all and it generated a recipe that looked almost the same, so I don't know how accurate that is. His constipation problem is also not related to intestinal activity, apparently, but to muscle tension caused by a surgery he had in January.
Vets can't help with this because 1) they ordered the recipe from a specialist; 2) every recipe generated by this specialist's calculator involves canola oil.
My cat eats a home cooked meal recipe prescribed by his vet, which consists of:
125g of turkey escalope
4g of Vit'i5 (French meal completer)
7ml of canola oil
55g of zucchini
I really want to change the oil in the recipe. I've noticed it gets "stuck" to the fur on his chin and he has a slight inflammation to it now - it could be an allergic reaction to the food in general, but I'd like to try changing just the oil first to see if it will make a difference. In parallel to that, I've also started cleaning his chin with warm water after each meal (will use Vetericyn Plus Antimicrobial Feline Facial Therapy once it arrives).
Thing is, I know the recipe is supposed to be properly balanced. I'm scared of changing the oil on my own and getting the amount of omega 3 and 6 wrong. A few oils that have been recommended to me on facebook were: coconut, avocado, salmon, or Agepi pills. The recipe also "allegedly" takes my cat's constipation issues into account - though I've tried an online home cooked calculator that doesn't take any health concerns into account at all and it generated a recipe that looked almost the same, so I don't know how accurate that is. His constipation problem is also not related to intestinal activity, apparently, but to muscle tension caused by a surgery he had in January.
Vets can't help with this because 1) they ordered the recipe from a specialist; 2) every recipe generated by this specialist's calculator involves canola oil.