![]() Plant matter is a very poor source of taurine, a critical amino acid essential for normal heart and vision function in a cat. The best available information I can unearth reveals that a small cat's "perfect" nutrition package - a mouse - contains a very high amount of taurine relative to other meats - approximately 2.4 mg/gram. The good news is that taurine is present in most raw meat muscle meat, but it is abundant in the heart and brain. Chicken hearts are a fantastic source of taurine if you're making cat food. (FYI, I procure chicken hearts in bulk from a really great place in PA called Hare Today Gone Tomorrow - they ship the hearts in 2-lb packages, frozen, right to the door. The packages always arrive in great shape and I use a small chest freezer to store the packages until food-making day.) LIKE us on Facebook to get these Bites in your news feed.
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Amanda Coffin
2/25/2014 09:37:19 pm
Hello! I notice that your recipes for raw food (and others as well) recommend using chicken hearts and livers rather than beef organs. Why is this? Thank you!
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Hi Amanda - I posted this to Facebook about a week or two ago - hope it helps!
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Amanda Coffin
3/11/2014 06:51:13 pm
That is extremely helpful, Anne -- thank you! It makes excellent sense, and I appreciate the caveat about the Vitamin A levels in beef liver.
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