Healthful Powder Cat Food Sprinkles

CAVEAT: We is regular people and dis our personal recipe. Please consult your vet before feeding your pet ANYTHING you read on da innerwebs.

Purrrrr Dis recipe for cat food sprinkles to add a bit of nutrition to my cat food, especially when da lady giving me sashimi or steak tartar. Da lady adapted it from a recipe from Dr. Pitcairn's New Complete Guide to Natural Health for Dogs and Cats by Dr. Richard Pitcairn, DVM. Is an excellent book with some great recipes for raw or minimally processed pet foods. There are chapters on acupuncture, homeopathy, and other types of holistic veterinary medicine. Dis adapted from Dr. Pitcairn's Healthy Powder on page 53.

Healthful Cat Sprinkles
1 cup nutritional yeast (brewer's yeast is ok.) 1/2 cup lecithin granules 2 TBS kelp powder (alfalfa powder is ok.) 2 TBS bone meal powder - nutritional, NOT garden! 2 TBS ground flaxseed - my own ingredient 2 tsp Taurine powder - my own ingredient 1/8 tsp vitamin C powder (ascorbic acid) (optional)
Serving size: 1 tsp per day per adult cat sprinkled on wet food. Makes about 90 servings

Notes:

• IMPORTANT: This recipe is amateur. Check with your vet.
• DO NOT use garden bone meal. Use bone meal intended for human consumption.
• kCal is what we usually call "calories."
• Recipe assumes a 15lb. cat
• The label of a cat food in my cabinet recommends feeding about 400kCal per day.
• Cats can't synthesize taurine, an amino acid necessary for eye and heart health. Please read abstracts from the National Institutes of Health (NIH).
• PubMed: Retinal degeneration relating to taurine deficiency in a cat.
• PubMed: Echocardiographic evidence for myocardial failure induced by taurine deficiency in domestic cats.
• How I calculated taurine: According to Max's House, AAFCO recommends that cat food be supplemented with Taurine 0.50g/1000kCal.
• Unlike humans, cats can synthesize Vitamin C, however a wild diet provides quite a bit. The small amount in this powder provides a bit of a boost to sick or nutritionally compromised cats.
• How I calculated flaxseed: The innerwebs contain dozens of recommendations for flaxseed supplementation ranging from 1/2 tsp to 3 TBS for a human. I went with the low recommendation based on information in Health and Healing With Bee Products by Dr. C. Leigh Broadhurst, PhD. and scaled it down for cats. This amount is far less than what is recommended on sites that sell ground flaxseed, some of which recommend a tsp per day for a cat. Flaxseed can cause constipation in large amounts.

A Pwize from Nutro!

Oh oh oh Dat @natalieatnutro did have a contesty for most interesting cat bed! Mine is da top of da armoire. Da pixchur won a gift box from the Nutro Company! Da gift box contained a bag of Feline Greenies treats, a bag of Nutro Natural Choice for cats, a Nutro tote bag, and a couple of nommable mousie toys.



Oh oh oh Dem sisfurcats tried to steal my gifts! Dey been pounding down the Natural Choice.


Please I can haz Greenies? I loves dem bery much!


Thx you for da Greenies! Dey do keeps my needle-sharp fangs white and scary!


Sharing my Greenies wif @sisfurcats Bugs Bunny. Miss Natalie sent us savory Salmon flavor and we pestered da lady all day for more. I also likes da Oven-Baked Chicken flavor and Bugs prefers Tempting Tuna.


Purrrr Hellooooo ladies! Would you like some of my noms?


It goes wifout saying dat da gift box was fun to play in and we spread da packing material all over da living room.

Cat and Dog Foods

Thx to my goggie friend @Bellemia for making me think about this.

Did you know that goggies like vegebals and fruits and berries in the wild? Goggies are omnivores like their humans. So you guys could eat at the table wif your humans and it would be healthy for you. Kittehs aren't so lucky.

CATS can't digest vegebals. Since we can't get vitamins out of vegebals we haz to eats dem predigested out of other animals' bellies. NOMNOMNOM! You call it vomit, I call it a side dish. MOL! We carnivores are MAJORLY disgusting, n'est-ce pas?

We cats don't need carbs. Grain in cat food might as well be styrofoam. At least styrofoam wouldn't contribute to diabetes.

The lady thinks we can tell by the taste exactly what by-products are in canned food. She should make her own homemade cat food and freeze in meal-sized packages. I hope she doesn't add a "side dish" to the packages.

So goggies, remember to tell your moms that it's healthy for goggies to eat at the table wif hoomans. MOL!

MEEEORRRRRRRUFF!