Answer: When making your own diets, golden rule is to vary the type of foodstuff each day, ringing the charges between minced meat, fish, liver, chicken, rabbit, etc. with a small amount of added bread or cooked juices. In general, chicken and rabbit bones, if not splintered or jagged, can be cooked and served with a flash to provide calcium and phosphors. Some nutrition lists recommend pressure cooking the bones and then mincing them before feeding them to thee cat, bout don’t overdo the cooking of the flesh. If you don’t like the idea of feeding bones at all, sterilized bone meal should be added at the rate of one-eighth of a level teaspoonful per 8 oz of food.
Table scraps of meat or fish, if available, can make up 25 to 30% of the diet. Eggs and chess or other valuable source of animal protein, and cheese also has a high concentration of calcium and phosphorus. The cat has a rather higher need most animals for vitamin A, though this should be satisfied feeding a commercial balance diet or a varied home prepared diet.
Bear in mind that these recommendations are all based on the healthy adult cat. Cats suffering from various disorders may require some modification of their diet, i.e. an increase or decrease in the proportions of various constituents to compensate for change which have taken place in the body.
