Diets

First of all, happy new year to everyone out there! I hope your celebrations were safe and the cat nip intake was kept at a minimum.

Secondly, I am thinking about making tux and turtle's diets a bit more interesting. I am thinking of, in addition to the totally gross canned food they eat, giving them a mixture of cooked fish (salmon and white fishes), some small amounts of cooked egg and vegetables (like Broccoli), seaweed, and perhaps a small amount of brown rice all mixed up.

Before I get myself into this too deep or risk making them sick, I'll need sufficient resources to ensure that what I intend on feeding them is healthy and that they'll get the sufficient protein and vitamins that cats require.

So, I will be doing some online research (this seems like a good starting point) but was wondering if anyone out there may have any opinions or ideas about feeding your cats homemade food.

Veggie Cats

My friend Bexx, who is also a total feline freak, is vegan, and so is her cat(s). I don't have any problem with people being vegan, because it's arguable that we were built to eat meat. However, cats are clearly predatory animals and need meat to survive and be healthy (that said, there is way too much "other stuff" in modern off-the-shelf cat food- like wheat - and if i wasn't such a vegetarian lameo, i'd prepare fresh meat for the cats).

Despite this, broccoli is a vegetable that I've given to tux before and he seems to enjoy it enough to garner more than just a curious sniff - he will eat it out of my hand. He doesn't RAVE over it like he does with nori seaweed, but he enjoys it enough to eat it if its in his bowl.

Apparently he's not the only one - check out this cute little guy going bonkers over broccoli!