Homemade Pet Food, alternatives to commerical pet food Options

[macgrl]

Does anyone have any recommendations on books or websites with the best pet recipe plans that works well for them? I have been to a few sites already and was curious if anyone on here had any helpful advice? I was going to buy this book

http://www.amazon.com/Food-Pets-Die-Shocki...9260119-6899954

but one of the reviews said that this book was "Good Info on Commercial Pet Food - Bad Info on Homemade Diet" Any recommendations?

[mbrammer]

Recipes for Homemade Diets - Feline
retyped and annotated by: Vick

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We've included these diets for those who would like to home cook for their special needs pets but don't know what or how. Hill's Science Diet provides recipes for homemade versions of their prescription diets to clients whose pets wouldn't eat the canned or dry versions of their Prescription Diets. The sheet these recipes came from is Copyright by Hill's Pet Products, 1989.

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Feline Restricted Protein Diet
Feline Reducing Diet
Feline Restricted Mineral and Sodium Diet
Feline Hypoallergenic Diet
Feline Restricted Protein Diet:
1/4 lb. liver (beef, chicken or pork only)
2 cups cooked white rice without salt
2 large hard cooked eggs, finely chopped
1 tablespoon vegetable oil
1 teaspoon (5 grams) calcium carbonate (health food stores or ground egg shells)
1/8 teaspoon potassium chloride (salt subst*itute products)
Also add a balanced supplement which fulfills the feline MDR for all vitamins and minerals and 250 mg taurine/day.
Dice and braise the meat retaining the fat. Combine all ingredients and mix well. Add water (not milk) as necessary to increase palatability. Keep extra food covered in refrigerator.

Yields 1 1/4 lbs.

Feeding Guide
Cat Weight Amount to Feed
(per Day) &%^ysis
5 lb. 1/4 lb Protein 7.3 %
7-8 lb. 1/3 lb Fat 5.3 %
10 lb. 2/3 lb Carbohydrate 15.8 %
Moisture 70.0 %
Metabolizable Energy
635 kcal./lb.


A restricted protein Prescription Diet food, Feline k/d is available in canned and dry formulas. Please call your vet's office if you have any questions.

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Feline Reducing Diet:

1 & 1/4 lb. liver (beef, chicken or pork only)
1 cup cooked white rice without salt
1 teaspoon vegetable oil
1 teaspoon (5 grams) calcium carbonate (health food stores or ground egg shells)
1/8 teaspoon potassium chloride (salt subst*itute products)
Also add a balanced supplement which fulfills the feline MDR for all vitamins and minerals and 250 mg taurine/day.
Cook the meat, pour off the fat. Grind well. Stir in remaining ingredients and mix well. Keep extra food covered in refrigerator.

Yields 1 3/4 lbs.

Feeding Guide
Cat Weight Amount to Feed
(per Day) &%^ysis
5 lb. 1/4 lb Protein 15.5 %
7-8 lb. 1/3 lb Fat 3.4 %
10 lb. 2/3 lb Carbohydrate 9.2 %
Moisture 70.0 %
Metabolizable Energy
585 kcal./lb.


After the cat has attained his or her optimum weight, a good quality maintenance diet at a level that just maintains the
optimum weight. Snacking and scavenging should be absolutely forbidden during the reducing period.

A reducing Prescription Diet food, Feline r/d is available in canned and dry formulas. Please call your vet's office if you have
any questions.

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Feline Restricted Mineral and Sodium Diet

1/4 lb. liver (beef, chicken or pork only)
1 lb. Ground beef, cooked
1 cup cooked white rice without salt
1 teaspoon vegetable oil
1 teaspoon calcium carbonate (health food stores or ground egg shells)
1/8 teaspoon potassium chloride (salt subst*itute products)
Also add a balanced supplement which fulfills the feline MDR for all vitamins and minerals and 250 mg taurine/day.
Cook the meat. Stir in remaining ingredients and mix well. Keep extra food covered in refrigerator.

Yields 1 3/4 lbs.

Feeding Guide
Cat Weight Amount to Feed
(per Day) &%^ysis
5 lb. 1/5 lb Protein 14.3 %
7-8 lb. 1/4 lb Fat 13.9 %
10 lb. 1/3 lb Carbohydrate 6.3 %
Moisture 64.0 %
Metabolizable Energy
940 kcal./lb.


A mineral restricted Prescription Diet food, Feline c/d is available in canned and dry formulas. Please call your vet's office if you have any questions.

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Feline Hypoallergenic Diet
(note: this is identical to their canine hypoallergenic diet except for the potassium chloride, and the protein seems way too low for a cat. Personally, I'd increase the lamb to 1 lb and reduce the rice to 1/2 cup, which will change at least protein and carb levels.... heck, just check with your vet on ways to adjust the protein to get the results you need

1/4 lb. diced lamb
1 cup cooked white rice without salt
1 teaspoon vegetable oil
1 1/2 teaspoon di-calcium phosphate (health food stores or bone meal)
1/8 teaspoon potassium chloride (salt subst*itute products)
Also add a balanced supplement which fulfills the feline MDR for all vitamins and minerals and 250 mg taurine/day.
Trim the fat from lamb. Cook thoroughly (braise or roast) without seasoning. Stir in remaining ingredients and mix well.
Keep extra food covered in refrigerator.

Yields 2/3 lbs.

Feeding Guide
Cat Weight Amount to Feed
(per Day) &%^ysis
5 lb. 1/5 lb Protein 7.0 %
7-8 lb. 1/3 lb Fat 10.0 %
10 lb. 2/5 lb Carbohydrate 14.0 %
Moisture 66.0 %
Metabolizable Energy
795 kcal./lb.


If the allergy is suspected to be food induced, maintain the patient on this diet and distilled (my note again: I'd use spring or bottled drinking water instead). Then expose the patient to foods one at a time, beginning with tap water, to discover offending materials. The aim of this provocative exposure is to determine foods the patient CAN eat rather than those the patient cannot eat.

A hypoallergenic Prescription Diet food, Canine (this comes right from the Hill's sheet) d/d is available in canned form. Check with your veterinarian.

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