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Originally Posted by Capirossi
It seems quite common that our little friends love to lick the gravy off certain food and leave the meat - driving me crazy!! I have been trying them on chicken breast and white fish for the past few weeks. It's going down well, but I noticed that they're pooing more than usual, so thought they could do with some extra moisture. And am a little concerned they are not getting everything they need. 
Anyway,tonight's experiment was chicken breast, mixed in with the Asda Select food in gravy - which they hate but love the gravy!! Again, they have licked all the gravy off and even left the chicken breast - grr!!
Anyone have any suggestions of how to make this 'gravy' ourselves?! Or better still, can you buy it?!! They dislike any food in jelly, although this gravy substance is quite jelly-like.....gosh, who would have thought feeding cats was so complicated?!  |
Firstly if you are just feeding cooked chicken breast and fish you have a few issues. By cooking you remove a lot of the nutrients, there is not enough Taurine (a vital amino acid for cats) in chicken breast or fish, fat is an important element of a cats diet as it is easy for them to convert into energy and enables them to have those quick bursts of energy when they need it.
However, the gravy bit is easy its best if you start with a chicken carcass (left over from your sunday roast) boil it up in a large pan with water for about 40 mins (you can do this with wings, drumsticks or breast if you don't have access to a caracss). Remove the chicken from the water and remove all the meat from the bones. Throw all the cooked bones away as they are very brittle and will damage a cats stomach. Put the meat back in the broth and bring up to the boil. Add a couple of satchets of gelatin (available from the bakery section of the supermarket. Stir and let cool.
Better than than just feed the chicken and fish to the cat from the packet with the skin on and the bones in.