Innovator of today’s most popular raw meat cat food.

The raw meat cat food recipe I developed in the period of 1995-1997, subsequent to starting my own cats on homemade cat food and founding the “Feline Future Foundation” with co-creator Scott Baker, has become the bread and butter to many who feed a raw meat diet to cats today. I would even say that my recipe is the most popular raw meat cat food recipe in use, shared and republished all around the world countless times in various medias to eventually even appear on WikiHow. People published their own websites and books based on the recipe and founded commercial raw frozen cat food, meat blends for making cat food, and premixes based on it.

Image on the left shows Scott Baker on the right with me holding our favourite cat “Cheops”, in front of the Feline Future Cat Food Company vehicle in 1998. Scott Baker and I approached the subject of feline nutrition with a deep passion for cats, and our devotion to their well-being has been an inspiration to thousands over the years.

The recipe first appeared in 1996 as a single sheet info hand-out and then  as “The Recipe for our Nutriment for Cats” as part of a 39 page information booklet called “Nurturing the True Carnivore” published by the Feline Future Foundation. The first online version of the recipe, and revised formula without vegetables, was published by us on the felinefuture.com website in 1997 for a much greater and global audience. It was published in conjunction with us making a pre-made frozen raw cat food now as “Feline Future Cat Food Company” which sold very successfully in Vancouver, BC (Canada) and area.

In 1998 the idea of the raw cat food PREMIX was born, because distribution of our pre-made frozen raw cat food became an impossibility after we moved with our 19 cats to Salt Spring Island, BC. The raw cat food premix, now known as “TCfeline”, supplies all the ingredients of the recipe, conveniently pre-mixed, except for the meat, which customers add fresh. The premix became extremely popular and sold throughout the world within a few years of when I first created it.

In 1999 we published the little book “The Backyard Predator –  a guide to nutrition for companion cats”, which was proof-read by Michelle Bernard. This inspired her to write her own book “Raising Cats Naturally” , featuring my raw meat cat food recipe. Ann Jablonski, in turn, was inspired to feed raw by Michelle Bernard’s book, and re-published the recipe on her now well-known catnutrition.org website. Ann Jablonski’s website was, in part, the reason why Dr. Lisa Pierson explored raw feeding, which resulted in the creation of the extremely popular catinfo.org website. From here, the recipe was even used to create commercially available frozen raw cat foods.

The raw cat food recipe published in “The Backyard Predator” in 1999 became the most distributed recipe! Everyone ignored the copyright message on the bottom of the recipe, resulting in it becoming a global sensation among cat lovers of which few knew the origin.

Over 20 years later, most people today can no longer trace the innovator of this unique raw cat food recipe.  Nonetheless I am so pleased that the raw meat diet for cats as evolved into a truly functional and beneficial alternative. What started as an idea has become a feasible and accessible mainstream option for many.

It remains a time honoured tradition that I publish my raw cat food recipe in addition of making the TCfeline premix available.