Have you tried giving her chopped up raw chicken? She make like that better than cooked (my cats aren't huge fans of chicken, but love rabbit, and a lot of cats love turkey). You can basically feed her ANY raw meat. Cats are carnivores, and their digestive systems is built to get the nutrition they need from raw food. Unlike dogs, they don't have the ability to convert a number of vitamins and amino acids into a usable format for their bodies. Carrots, for instance. They get NO vitamin A from carrots, they lack the digestive enzymes necessary to convert beta carotene into Vitamin A. They can't synthesize taurine or arginine from their amino acid building blocks the way dogs and humans can, the MUST get it either from animal flesh or as a supplement.Can you help me. I cooked boiled chicken and carrots without any salt or seasonings for my cats but they don't like chicken at all. There are also no good canned food in my area, only whiskas and fancy feast are available which I know is not good to feed to my cats. What other meat should I buy that I can cook that is ok for cats?
If you look at canned foods or kibble, you'll see that there is a long list of supplements. This is because when you cook meat, many of the nutrients are rendered either unusable or are reduced greatly in quantity. So the vitamins and amino acids have to be added back in. But if you give your cats raw meat, they get all those nutrients they need. :nod:
Of course, to feed them ONLY raw food (which you CAN), you do have to do it correctly. It needs to be done with the proper balance of muscle meats, bone and organs, and it is very important to rotate proteins (chicken, turkey, lamb, rabbit, etc.). If you're going to treat it like a "treat," it's safe to give up to 15% of their food as "unbalanced" (not nutritionally complete) stuff.
Here are some resources if you're interested: http://www.thecatsite.com/t/240809/raw-feeding-resource-thread