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[–][deleted] 4 insightful - 3 fun4 insightful - 2 fun5 insightful - 3 fun -  (6 children)

Ninja is the best buy for the money. I spent a year making cat food and burned through 3 blenders. Vitamax is solid ofc, but priced at a premium. Also, Ninja works better because of the multiple levels of blades.

[–]JasonCarswell[S] 2 insightful - 3 fun2 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 3 fun -  (5 children)

Care to share the Ninja model and/or /s/cat food recipes?

I had a great vintage chrome Osterizer blender and have regretted leaving it behind in Oakland.

[–][deleted] 3 insightful - 3 fun3 insightful - 2 fun4 insightful - 3 fun -  (4 children)

I think they just have the one Ninja blender essentially, just comes with slightly different shit. You can still buy that vintage blender on eBay, it's less than the Ninja.

The simplest form of cat food is mostly chicken with a little liver thrown in and a vitamin supplement. There's various things you can add in, fish oil, eggs, dry milk powder, and even some fruits and veggies like apples, cooked potatoes, cooked sweet potatoes, carrots, seaweed. Cats can't utilize vitamins from veggies efficiently, but most people think they shouldn't ever eat it and that's not true, in the wild cats consume their prey's stomach contents. It should never be a large part of their diet. Anyways, you just blend it all together with just enough water to make it work. Makes a thick meat slushy.

Making cat food is more expensive than buying it, and it is absolute hell on a blender. I don't make it anymore because Gizmo prefers his chicken by-product and corn meal bullshit food, but when my last cat was dying it was all she could eat.

I probably have a recipe somewhere, I'd have to look for it.

[–]jet199 4 insightful - 3 fun4 insightful - 2 fun5 insightful - 3 fun -  (0 children)

FFS, it's a cat not Gordon Ramsey.

[–][deleted] 3 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 2 fun -  (1 child)

https://feline-nutrition.org/nutrition/making-raw-cat-food-for-do-it-yourselfers

It's definitely cheaper to make it. I just don't have $160 for that meat grinder.

[–][deleted] 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

It's cheaper than buying an equivalent quality food, but cats can live for 25 years eating nothing ng but cheap ass shitty kibble.

[–]JasonCarswell[S] 1 insightful - 2 fun1 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

Thanks for sharing.