Originally Posted by fjm

My two cats are now on home cooked - I tried them with raw, but they really were not that keen, and kept dropping bits down to the dogs, so it was getting difficult to know who had eaten what! One weird thing I have found is that they actually prefer it served frozen - perhaps because it stays fresh longer. I give them my local butcher's pet mince (a mixture of human-grade meat offcuts ground), and buy heart and liver seperately. I casserole it in a low oven until just cooked, measure it into meal size portions, and add the appropriate quantity of egg shell and a pinch of taurine powder, if there is not much heart in the mix. They are great hunters (so far this week it's been rabbit, a partridge, plus assorted mice and voles), so I don't feel I have to be too scrupulous. Pippin has definitely lost weight recently, though - the Garfield spread has gone, and when viewed from above he now has a waist again - and they are both in tip top condition.