My cat just simply won't touch raw meat. Can I sautee or fry it a bit? Because my cat loves fried chicken (not that I feed him that) and I think he'll like sautéed meat. Some nutrition will be destroyed but it's still better than kibble, no?
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Sautée-ing/frying meat
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Absolutely it is! ln fact, my cats' regular vets are proponents of a home-cooked diet.
l feed raw, but for the last couple of decades my parents have augmented their pets' pet food with homecooked and their animals were very healthy until the end (cat 21, dog 17 RIP). I've seen the benefits firsthand.
l feed raw, but for the last couple of decades my parents have augmented their pets' pet food with homecooked and their animals were very healthy until the end (cat 21, dog 17 RIP). I've seen the benefits firsthand.
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l do. l don't often give mine cooked food, but when l do, it's usually something left over that we don't want to eat after a couple of days so the cats get it. l keep raw in the fridge sometimes for 3 days, so l'm sure lightly cooked meat could be treated the same. You could also cook it and refreeze it in portion-sized baggies as l do with the raw. lt makes their mealtimes easier.
Are you just augmenting their diet, or switching over to homecooked? Do you use calcium and other supplements?
Are you just augmenting their diet, or switching over to homecooked? Do you use calcium and other supplements?
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What do you think of this though: http://www.thecatsite.com/t/250047/a-real-study-on-raw-vs-cooked-diets
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I'm planning to switch from kibble to homecooked. And I'll also use supplements of course.
Oh and how about the bone? I'm planning to grind the chicken first then sautée it. Will the bone be safe to eat?
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Did you read the comments in the thread? I think even though that is an old and in some ways out dated study there are still things to be learned from it but that cats shouldn't be fed a cooked diet isn't one of them. Cooking certainly depletes some nutrients but it doesn't completely destroy them. And, studies have shown that cooked meat is easier with regards to energy expenditure for even obligate carnivores like cats to digest although I don't know of any such study that included cats.
Here is a link to some tried and proven recipes:
http://www.dogcathomeprepareddiet.com/index.htm
No, you should never feed cooked bone to an animal. Cooking makes the bone hard. Even if ground the bone can have sharp points that when made hard by cooking can increase the risk of them puncturing or at least irritating the GI tract.
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You can cook it any way you like. If I remember the list of cooking methods in order from best to worst as far as preserving nutrients is:
pressure cooking
roasting
pan frying
boiling
Boiling is the worst because nutrients are leached out into the water. If you use all the water in making your food you can recapture those nutrients. Same with pan frying. Use the pan drippings in the food.
You can also try just partially cooking the food. Some raw feeders do that to kill some of the bacteria on the surface of the meat. So the outside would be cooked but the inside still raw. Your cat might like it like that.
Here is a quote from a nutritionist that I got from someplace. I no longer have a link to the source though:
pressure cooking
roasting
pan frying
boiling
Boiling is the worst because nutrients are leached out into the water. If you use all the water in making your food you can recapture those nutrients. Same with pan frying. Use the pan drippings in the food.
You can also try just partially cooking the food. Some raw feeders do that to kill some of the bacteria on the surface of the meat. So the outside would be cooked but the inside still raw. Your cat might like it like that.
Here is a quote from a nutritionist that I got from someplace. I no longer have a link to the source though:
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You could put the ingredients through a blender if you wanted a pate style food or feed it chunky style. Which ever you, and more importantly, your cat prefers.
Make sure to remember you can't cook the bone in any way!!! You might want to just use boneless meat if you are going to cook it, and use eggshell powder or some type of calcium to substitute for the bone. I currently use Alnutrin....they make one for meat/gone, and another for just meat. I keep both on hand.
Check out www.catinfo.org for how Dr. Pierson partially cooks the food, especially for a rather stubborn won't-eat-raw cat of hers. I used to bake mine only enough to kill surface pathogens and then shock it in ice water to stop the cooking process. Maybe that could work for you? Definitely don't cook the bone!
When our cat Casper was ill recently he refused all of his canned food, ,which he usually has no problems eating. We fed him very lightly pan fried chicken thighs for several days. All I did was cook the outside of them in a small amount of olive oil (enough so it didn't stick to the pan), and when the outside was just getting white colored, flip it over and do the same to the other side. I then put a lid on the pan for about a minute, so that heat would penetrate, I didn't think he'd like the interior cold.
I did not, add any flavoring agents at all.
I shredded the meat off the bone - again, cooked bone should not be fed to cats. He was thrilled and ate it all. Was just the thing to get his appetite back.
Of course this was done on a limited basis so I didn't have to add supplements. But as for the cooking method, I think it was a pretty good one as it left the interior relatively raw and sort of what peole say is "mouse" temperature.
I did not, add any flavoring agents at all.
I shredded the meat off the bone - again, cooked bone should not be fed to cats. He was thrilled and ate it all. Was just the thing to get his appetite back.
Of course this was done on a limited basis so I didn't have to add supplements. But as for the cooking method, I think it was a pretty good one as it left the interior relatively raw and sort of what peole say is "mouse" temperature.
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This short bake won't affect the bone?
No, the idea is to cook the outside but leave the inside, where the bone is, raw. You do have to be careful that you don't over cook and so end up cooking the bone and that there is no exposed bone that might get cooked even if the center is still raw.
