If I wanted to make my own cat food, what would I need to put in it.

Obviously the main ingredients is meat, but what type of meat? What else do they need?

Oh and to add to that, when you say 'raw' meat, do you mean, 'only' meat or 'uncooked' meat. (i'm stupid I know).

Surprised nobody has answered.

Raw = raw uncooked meat There are different views as to whether it is minced, or pieces. There are 2 schools of thought on raw: prey diet simple and pure or BARF

Here are the 2 links:

~ WELCOME TO RAW FED CATS ~

UK BARF Club - The Ultimate BARF and Natural Feeding Guide for Cats and Dogs


These sites put forward the purist view.

Many on this forum do a combo: they do their best to feed high meat content food but are more pragmatic - will use ORIJEN dry cat food along with natures menu plus raw

If you want home cooked food this forum might help (its american so what it recommends may not be available here)

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Oh thanks thats really interesting.

As it says the cat would eat the entire animal (bones included) would minced meat not include most of this anyway?
I know many of us don't want to believe it, but when we buy mince from the supermarket, it does include all stuff like that.

I'm one of the pragmatic ones but I would love to feed just raw, it's not that easy with cats that are already in the routine of eating commercial foods though.

I think my I could get my cats to eat anything as I change their cat food very frequently. I didn't want my cats to be fussy, so I thought I would not stick to one food for too long.
They will eat any dry food I put down and most wet food. Sometimes I 'hide' wet food that they have turned their nose up in wet food I know they like, and this gets them used to it.
I also often give them grilled chicken fillet, tuna (but not very much) and tin sardines.

...oh and I caught my male cat murray trying to left over end of my garlic bread today!

Ours will eat anything they're not supposed to be. They'll eat any dry food and pretty much any wet food but give them a chicken wing and there's hell to pay! Strange things they are, but I'm led to believe a lot of cats are like it.

As I understand it reading the BARF site and the tabs to natures menu on that site, Natures menu (NM) includes ground up bones. They advocate giving raw chicken wings and other raw boned meats for cleaning the teeth once or twice a week in you are only feeding NM.

Raw rabbit mince includes bones but I don't think human consumption mince in supermarket = ground bones There is a site that sells this here:

English Rabbit Meat

However, if you also give a dry food such as ORIJEN then that will help keep the teeth clean.

The prey menu is whole raw with bones.

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Try white chicken,we use the asda ones and mix it with beef,fish(white),Mackeral,tuna,prawnsAnd as said rabbit,raw beef if they'll eat it,sardines,you can cook it all the night before in a huge tub and it's ready to use for the next breakfastAlso for a nursing mum fingertip her food with a touch of honey-great for a pick me up