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Don't really have a setup currently, and it certainly takes the most of my time in the preparation.
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How Do You Guys Cut The Soft-gel In Fish Oil?
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When I give my dogs fish oil caps I just use a needle to poke a hole in the end and squeeze it out.
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Same. Poke a hole in it with a knife and squeeze the oil out.
Poke a hole with a needle (a sewing one with the round end) and use the needle as a stopper if I don't need the whole gel.
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Per catinfo.org you can also leave the fish oil in warm water for 15 minutes. Once they are somewhat dissoved you can squeeze the capsules. She also says it's fine to leave the gelatin capsules in the mixture since it's a protein.
Yup, poke hole in the end with a needle (sewing needle, etc. I use lancets, the same ones diabetic people use) or tip of a sharp paring knife, then squeeze out the oil. You may need to poke two holes if the oil won't come out of one.
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A tiny screw driver works well too.
I just bite the end. . .
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Wow lol! Thats a lot of fishiness.I just bite the end. . .
I started using the Nordic Naturals brand with a dropper to give a daily dose rather than mixing into batches. Works great.
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From the Feline Nutrition recipe,
“Wild Salmon Oil or Wild Caught Small Fish Oil – Some cats don't like the taste of salmon oil. Get capsules, not a liquid in a bottle. Once opened, the liquid can go rancid quickly. It's okay to drop the whole capsule into the grinder, the gelatin capsule is edible.
© 2018 Feline Nutrition Foundation
Read more at Recipe: Feline Nutrition's Easy Raw Cat Food
I guess it depends on how well you store it and how quickly you go through the bottle. Personally, I’d rather stab a capsule than worry about rancid oil.
Excellent point about rancidity. I only buy the 2 oz bottle (so go through it in a reasonable amount of time) and follow the directions about not storing the dropper in the bottle, storing the bottle in the fridge, etc. Just posted as an option.
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That's pretty pricey? When you're making cat food or if you're already feeding pricey commercial you really want to try the costs down. I just bought 2 bottles of 200 omega 3 pills each bottle for $18 at costco. But nordic naturals is a good brand and your kitty is very lucky to get that fish oil!
I don't taste it. I just pinch a bit of the capsule in a sharp part of my teeth and kind of twist and pull. It makes just a little hole like a pinprick.
But I used to chew cod liver oil capsules when I was little so I suppose I wouldn't mind too much if some got in my mouth, lol.
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The gel caps are perfectly safe to consume. Dissolve in hot water and mix well with the rest of your slurry ingredients. I don't puncture or cut anything, and it can dissolve while I do my meat grinding.
I snip one of the tips with a little pair of scissors and squeeze the oil out of the capsule.
I keep mine in the freezer (huge bottle the cats and I share) and pierce the ends with an ice pick.
