Don’t forget your pet food in an emergency. Here’s how to make your own cat food:
http://www.instructables.com/id/Make-Raw-Cat-Food/
Make Raw Cat Food
Felines have been eating raw food for thousands of years. Kept by humans in their homes and barns to catch, kill and eat mice, bugs, and other undesirables, all cat species have remained true carnivores. There may very well be a relationship between the health of these magnificent creatures and the fact that many of us are feeding them meat-flavored cereal that they were never meant to eat. While it is definitely some work, making your own raw cat food is manageable. Think of it as a labor of love and keeping your pet happy and healthy without serving him all the unnecessary additives that are in some canned food. The following recommendation will better suit your cat’s body and health.
GATHER THE FOLLOWING PRIOR TO MAKING
2 kg [4.4 pounds] raw muscle meat with bones (chicken necks are mostly cartilage, are easy to chop and easy for the cat to digest) thighs and drumsticks or, better, a whole carcass of rabbit or chicken amounting to 2 kg; if you don’t use a whole carcass, opt for dark meat like thighs and drumsticks from chicken or turkey)
400 grams [14 oz] raw heart, ideally from the same animal (if no heart is available, substitute with 4000 mg Taurine)
200 grams [7 oz] raw liver, ideally from the same animal (if you can’t find appropriate liver, you can substitute 40,000 IU of Vitamin A and 1600 IU of Vitamin D—but try to use real liver instead of substitutes).
NOTE: If you cannot find the heart or liver and decide to substitute with the Taurine/Vitamin A and D, then remember to replace the missing amount of organ meat with the equivalent amount of muscle meat. In other words, if you cannot find heart, you add another 400 grams of the meat/bones. If you can’t find the liver, add another 200 grams of meat/bones.
16 oz [2 cups] water
4 raw egg yolks (use eggs from free-range, antibiotic-free chickens if you can)
4 capsules raw glandular supplement (such as, for example, “Raw Multiple Glandular” from Premier Labs)
4000 mg salmon oil
200 mg Vitamin B complex
800 IU Vitamin E (”dry E” works well) Buy Vitamin E in dry powder form. It’s much easier to deal with than those little oil-filled capsules.
* OPTIONAL: 1/4 teaspoon of kelp and 1/4 teaspoon of dulse (1/2 teaspoon total) Try and get dulse and kelp in powder form that you can easily measure with a teaspoon rather than in capsule form. Taking apart those capsules is time consuming. If you can only find kelp in caplet form, you’ll have to spend time crushing the caplets with a mortar and pestle. Do yourself a favor and try to find the loose powder form.
OPTIONAL: 4 teaspoons psyllium husk powder (8 teaspoons if using whole psyllium husks)
**HINTS**
Use a needle to pierce or small scissors to open the salmon oil capsules .
Sharp knives. Dull knives make the whole process last too long and can be more dangerous to use than sharp ones.
Poultry shears or a good tough pair of kitchen scissors can sometimes be easier than a knife for cutting and chunking the meats.
An egg separator can make things a little easier and faster too.
[Illustrated instructions at this wonderful website!—TAC]
Ping to cat food recipe that Vickie found for us.