Catnoms!

Since the humans in the family are eating at a friend's today, this is for the four-footed family. Nadja, our elder cat, is on a renal diet. Alex, the younger (and resident kitchen god) is on a normal diet. Our recipes are adapted from a couple of books on dog and cat diets. Phil has done a lot of research to augment these for our specific needs, so I'm am not posting the actual recipes because what works for us may not work for you. But there's enough so that you get the general idea of what goes into it. If you are seriously interested in investing the time and effort into making your own cat food, please contact me or send a comment and I will get back to you. It really has made a difference for our cats, but it takes a commitment - you can't just dump table scraps into a bowl!

The picture of the food in the mixer shows the yield from one pound of lamb, mixed with millet (more for the renal diet than for the regular), animal fat (for the renal diet), and various supplements (again, Nadja needs more supplements and potassium blockers because of her kidney disease). The other two pictures show the completed food - Nadja's is the first picture and Alex's is the second. Alex's has more volume because he does not have the added fat added in (the fat is a lot more dense than the equivalent calories in meat).