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Pet Behavior and Health Questions / Making Your Own Pet Food And Home Remedies / Re: Cato Continues Kaffe's Work
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on: November 28, 2008, 07:17:28 AM
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This recipe is to help “bulk-up” JustMe’s kittens’ stools. We use boiled chicken breast because next to raw, this is the part of the chicken that is easiest to digest when cooked. We do not include the skin because of the fat content and because fat exacerbates diarrhea. Cats should be on a grainless diet ideally but sometimes they need something to absorb intestinal baddies and to bulk-up their poopies. Plain boiled rice fits this requirement and as a “grain” does not tend to irritate the GI as other grains like corn, even with IBD kitties. Rice is a “good” grain. Applesauce is used in the recipe for the pectin, which combats diarrhea.  Three Musketeers' Chicken and Rice(for Freddie, Lily and Junior) ½ lb Boiled Chicken Breast, meat only, finely shredded 1/3 – ½ Cup Boiled white rice (make sure it is over-boiled) ¼ Tsp Eggshell powder or 500mg calcium citrate/carbonate 2.5 oz (1 jar) Beechnut Chicken and Chicken Broth Stage 1 Babyfood 1.25oz (1/2 jar) Beechnut Applesauce Stage 1 Babyfood * If feeding for more than a week alone, a multivitamin/mineral supplement should be given to the kitties. ** It is best to feed kitties small meals several times a day instead of one big meal or two biggish meals. Cato, Would white rice and brown rice be interchangeable in this recipe? I have oganic both. Lundberg brown and Lundberg Jasmine white. |
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Pet Food Info (Menu Foods, Iams, Purina, Hills, Ol'Roy, etc.) / News (Recall Related) / Re: Problems with Orijen in Australia
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on: November 27, 2008, 06:22:37 AM
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I've never used Orijen. This irradiation issue is very upsetting. I feel terribly sad for Australians who have had ill felines or lost their felines.  I have questions that show my ignorance on this subject.  But I do have questions. How do we know that other cat/dog foods that are made in the USA or other countries are not irradiated (ingredients)? What about canned foods? Are those irradiated, too? Found an article in organic consumer saying organic products cannot be irradiated. But I don't know if this is true. Regardless of the fact that I don't live in Australia and I don't use this brand, I am still very concerned. All those ingredients coming from China and other foreign countries, are they irradiated? What is that doing to their cell structures? When you combine 2 ingredients which have been changed by irradiation, what happens? Please excuse my ignorance. I just want to keep my cats and dogs healthy. |
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They seem to do better, but not perfect on grain-free kibble, but as soon as I start introducing any brand of wet (with or without grains), the stools get loose again. Lilly seems to mostly have formed stools.