Cat Food

You can actually make your own cat food?

Homemade cat food can provide your cat with essential nutrients for optimum health and greater longevity. Our homemade cat food recipes are specific to all life stages - they are nutritionally complete, and no additional supplementation is necessary when used as suggested.

Cost to feed a cat with Know Better for Cats is about $0.85 per day including meat - 85% lean. Our cat food products are used for preparing raw or cooked cat food and are made with 100% human grade ingredients. Our grain-free cat food premixes is meant to be combined with water and raw or cooked meat in the appropriate proportions, found in our recipe.

The Cat and its diet...

Prior to human influence, one hundred and twenty million years of evolution shaped the cat into a very impressive predator. According to its' physiology, with a short intestinal tract, sharp teeth and claws, and forward-focused eyes, the cat is the perfect hunter. In the wild, the cat's diet consists of small rodents, birds, reptiles, and insects. It is classified as belonging to a family of flesh-eating, predaceous mammals. Except for a very minute quantity of seeds and green matter (which form the contents of the stomach and digestive system of the cat's prey), it must be argued that a cat does not consume anything but meat, including bones, fur, feathers and internal organs. In its' natural environment, the cat requires very little, if any, water. Amazingly, it relies almost exclusively on wild prey for hydration. One hundred and twenty million years of evolution have not diminished this magnificent creature, but rather the past has placed it firmly at the top of the food chain.

To conclude that the cat has survived on this wild-prey diet is an understatement. The cat has thrived on this diet. It has re-produced, nurtured young and grown to a remarkably old age.

For the past four thousand years the domestic cat has been ingratiating itself into our lives. Throughout history, it has been both friend and servant, and through the years it has earned both our respect and our affection. The cat is a majestic creature, one which we still know remarkably little about, even though it has shared our hearts and our homes for so many generations.

In terms of human experience, cats are a gift. They embody the attributes for which we mortals merely strive. They are noble, independent, affectionate, patient, resolute, free spirits. We do their bidding, with pleasure. We house their energetic bodies with care. We feed their physical bodies with prudence. This is what they have come to expect of us, and we, in turn, happily comply.

"A cat's hearing apparatus is built to allow the human voice to easily go in one ear and out the other." Stephen Baker