Food- Liver

[ChiaZ]

Hi everyone, I've been wanting to give Kahlua some meats, well specifically liver, and I was just wondering does anyone else give their cats liver? how do you prepare it? thanks alot

[coaster]

Chiara, did you check out the recipies section? there's a couple topics there.

[Gudewife]

I have a problem with the fact that most commercial cat foods contain some liver, and it is the one single nagging concern I have about not raw feeding. The liver is like a concentrated toxin warehouse, and given my druthers, I wouldn't feed Assumpta the liver of any animal that I wasn't on a first-name basis with (she does like liver though, and whenever my husband cooks some, she is the first one lined up for samples...well, the only one lined up for samples ). Pesticides, antibiotics, growth hormones...everything nasty eventually ends up in the liver. My feelings could be skewed, though, by the fact that I loathe liver, and even the smell of it cooking nauseates me. We have a separate small skillet for liver, because the taste lingers forever if you cook it in our regular spider.

I'd say that liver is okay in limited amounts (it shouldn't be a large part of the diet, though), and that if you decide to feed liver, try to find organic ones if at all possible. Cats are just a lot littler than humans, and the concentration of yucky stuff in the liver will be amplified in their smaller bodies.

[Sol]

Like Gudewife says one of the problems with feeding liver is that it's a filter. Every toxic substance the animal have eaten will leave traces in the liver so one should only feed liver from young animals and only organic liver. I have no problems feeding liver since antibiotics and hormones aren't allowed in the Swedish meat production and the only liver available is from very young animals.

Another "problem" with liver is that it contains high amounts of vitamin A which is toxic when overdosed so the cats overall food intake shouldn't contain more than 10 % liver.