I have six beautiful loving kitties who love real quality meat from good butchers.
Cats can derive some fibre from veg, and even some vitamins and minerals, but in both cases only negligibly so in terms of their obligate diet. It's mostly helpful in terms of moisture content. If you find they do like something that's non-meat, then so long as it isn't harmful to them per se, it's fine as 'treats' in strict moderation. Two of mine love sharing a couple of baked beans when 'daddy' has them, go figure 😁
About the best non-meat thing they can consume nutrition-wise is egg, and they seem to instinctively love it. My cats' favourite treat is an egg or two barely scrambled into very lightly fried mince. If you're going to give them 'real' meat, cook it only barely as cooking breaks down taurine, which is an essential dietary requirement for them.
Mince and very thin stir fry strips is good as cats can only 'tear' as opposed to chew, so with commercial wet food they basically just gulp and swallow it and so don't use their teeth in the ancestrally intended way. Also, they love observing the food preparation process, it's stimulation and routine for them and bonding for all of us 😻😻
When I’m pet sitting for my family in Hawaii, they have six cats. Fresh raw mahi, and cooked chicken breast. These cats are spoiled, but they don’t all get the goods. Just the two that live on the second floor. The rest are strays that they have caught, had them fixed and their shots, and then released, but they still live on the property. They are still fed a pretty good diet, but the two highly favored ones are eating high on the hog.
I have six beautiful loving kitties who love real quality meat from good butchers.
Cats can derive some fibre from veg, and even some vitamins and minerals, but in both cases only negligibly so in terms of their obligate diet. It's mostly helpful in terms of moisture content. If you find they do like something that's non-meat, then so long as it isn't harmful to them per se, it's fine as 'treats' in strict moderation. Two of mine love sharing a couple of baked beans when 'daddy' has them, go figure 😁
About the best non-meat thing they can consume nutrition-wise is egg, and they seem to instinctively love it. My cats' favourite treat is an egg or two barely scrambled into very lightly fried mince. If you're going to give them 'real' meat, cook it only barely as cooking breaks down taurine, which is an essential dietary requirement for them.
Mince and very thin stir fry strips is good as cats can only 'tear' as opposed to chew, so with commercial wet food they basically just gulp and swallow it and so don't use their teeth in the ancestrally intended way. Also, they love observing the food preparation process, it's stimulation and routine for them and bonding for all of us 😻😻
When I’m pet sitting for my family in Hawaii, they have six cats. Fresh raw mahi, and cooked chicken breast. These cats are spoiled, but they don’t all get the goods. Just the two that live on the second floor. The rest are strays that they have caught, had them fixed and their shots, and then released, but they still live on the property. They are still fed a pretty good diet, but the two highly favored ones are eating high on the hog.
Egg is derived from chicken with the yoke being a future chicken provided you don't eat it and let it hatch.