Making your own pet
food
Making your own pet food is an option, if done carefully. Dogs
are opportunistic carnivores, or omnivores, as humans are. If
you can feed yourself properly, with goodf nutrition, you can
probably feed your dog.
Cats, however, are obligate carnivores. They need meat for proper
nutrition. They cannot manufacture certain nutrients that humans
and dogs can. For example, a diet deficient in the amino acid
taurine can result in blindness or heart failure. Taurine is a
very fragile nutrient and oxidizes/degrades quickly and easily.
For good cat food recipes, that satisfy the nutritional requirements
for cats (as recently updated), see:
I have a video
of how simple this is!
If the above recipes are a bit daunting,
or you'd like to try something simpler to start, consider a simple
ground meat (or ground meat and bone) with supplements added.
Info on Instincts TC versus Feline Instincts here.
You can also buy a raw meat diet that's already nutritionally
complete (has supplements added), such as Feline's Pride.
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