If Q likes cats, then maybe I can slide this thread by without getting in trouble with the moderators. 🙂
My cat will not eat commercial pet food. That's mainly my fault because I've been feeding her human food ever since she was a little kitten. Her main diet consists of grilled chicken breasts that I grill on the barbecue. Long story short, I found out that human food like the kind I mentioned has next to no vitamins. Cats need at a very minimum Taurine and Calcium in their diet. I have been adding Taurine and Calcium powdered supplements to her chicken. It's easy to do if the chicken is already shredded using two forks. Then all I do is add two capfuls of bottled water and mix everything together. She loves it and chows it down. At other times instead of using the Taurine and Calcium supplements, I'll sprinkle a Probiotic on top of her chicken called Purina FortiFlora. It has nutrients in it too, but still not near as many vitamins as commercial pet food.
So here's the question: Do you guys have a recommendation for a multivitamin supplement that I can add to her food?
Either a powder form or a liquid form would probably work fine. If you read all that, ThankYou so much.
Some organic “plant supplement” info that may be helpful and applicable to animals if you do a custom mix:
Calcium-You can create high quality organic concentrated calcium powder using ground up egg shells. Boil old egg shells for 10 minutes, place on cookie sheet, dry and crush. When reasonably dry add parchment paper and place in oven for 10-15 min at 225degF. Take out of oven, let cool. When room temp add to coffee grinder and make fine powder, store in glass jar. Only a tiny amount needed at a time, sprinkle lightly when needed.
Potassium and Phosphorus-similar process as above with washed and cut up banana peels (minus the stems). Use distilled water (with mineral pack soak) or filtered water that removes flouride (like Berkey) if possible. When baking to dry use 55-60 min at 225degF. Grind similarly in coffee grinder. Similar process for sliced banana fruit covered in honey makes dried banana slices (for humans only).
ThankYou for your reply.
Meow greens made by ruff greens.
We buy Aldi local chicken, cooked slow with chicken livers /hearts from butcher, plus rice to soak up all the juices, and carrot chunks. Hard to find "fatty" chicken! When cooled, we mix some sardines in oil, taurine, baked/powdered eggshells, magnesium. Once I noticed them eating grass, I added a touch of metamucil for fiber. I might try growing catnip, parsley and lemongrass for them instead. But they're thriving on this food and although we toss in some canned food so they won't shun it if we run out of homemade, they go for the homemade first when it's separate.
They are obligate carnivores, but it doesn't mean they must eat raw. We cook big batches (big deep pot that we do beef bones in) and freeze.
Yes, there's not much of a Q angle here with this one, but, let's allow it, even though we have removed if you posts here and there last few days, a couple frogs caught vacations for egregious shower thought posts, but
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My coffee came through my nose. 😂😂
Why the useless hateful comment? What are you trying to achieve?
Look into the BARF diet for cats (Biologically appropriate raw food or Bones and raw food). I feed my dogs the Barf diet for dogs and they live long healthy lives with shiny white teeth. I don't know of any cat vitamins though.
What were they thinking when they came up with that acronym? That's awful.
Check out this web blog. It is called All Natural Pet Care and the article is Natural Sources of Taurine for Cats. Lots of interesting comments to read also.
They were probably looking on Google for carpet cleaning companies (for the third time this month)! 😭🐸
I'm sorry, I'm a long time dog breeder and didn't realize how offensive that would sound. it is a legitimate way to feed your animals for their good health by feeding them appropriate raw foods and bones that they would eat in the wild. I guess think of what coyotes, wolves or mountain lions would eat. I have very long lived corgis, the oldest living to 19 years, never had to have his teeth cleaned from eating raw bones. You never feed cooked bones as they can splinter and cause harm. Anyway so sorry that the acronym is so awful. Was trying to be helpful.
There's no need to be sorry; you're not the one who came up with the name for the product. I have to admit, when I first read your post, I thought it was a very bad joke until I confirmed through Google that the product actually does exist. Don't worry about it. Thank you for your reply.
Lmao! My chihuahua is on a different Barf diet. Bless him, he can't help it.
Well, it's a diet, but kind of in reverse, is what you're saying 😂
Red Bull has taurine. Does your cat like Red Bull? I don't remember Q ever mentioning cats. So, I think its safe to assume Q hates cats and probably has allergies.
Why assume Q hates cats? I look at it this way: If cats represent the closest thing to heaven on earth that there will ever be, then Q probably loves cats.
I was just kidding.