Cairo, a Feline Future study cat, with a recently killed wild rabbit, demonstrating the natural predatory behaviour that inspired the TCfeline premix concept.

Cats are carnivores. Carnivores don’t eat meat. They eat prey.

For three decades, Feline Future has refined the nutritional bridge between meat and prey.

Learn what a homemade cat food premix is, how TCfeline works, and why it has helped owners make safe, complete, and balanced homemade cat food as a viable alternative to conventional feline nutrition.

Choose the Premix Formula That’s Right for Your Cat

Original

Updated Pouch – Same Product!

TCfeline Original premix prepares a prey model raw diet for kittens and adult cats. It contains real bone and requires addition of raw liver. It meets the nutritional needs for growth, reproduction, gestation, and lactation. The prepared food mimics nutrient composition of mice.

TCfeline Original homemade cat food premix for kittens and adult cats

Special Formula

Updated Pouch – Same Product!

TCfeline Special Formula premix prepares a homemade diet reduced in Phosphorus for adult cats age 12 years+ and is suitable for cats with Chronic Kidney Disease. It contains L-Carnitine and higher levels of B vitamins. Adding liver is not required. Also suitable for preparation with cooked meat.

TCfeline Special Formula reduced phosphorus homemade cat food premix

Feed like the professional do

Fresh-food feeding is often portrayed as an alternative or unconventional approach to cat nutrition. Yet in zoological parks, conservation breeding programs, rehabilitation centres, and research facilities around the world, fresh meat and whole prey form the foundation of diets for captive wild cats. From small endangered felids to the largest cats on earth, the professionals responsible for their care routinely feed diets based on raw meat, bones, organs, and prey.

When whole prey is unavailable or impractical, fresh meat is combined with carefully formulated supplements to create nutritionally complete diets that mirror the composition of natural prey.

This is the same biological principle on which TCfeline is built.

Feline Future pioneered the modern cat food premix for domestic cats and remains the only premix maker to validate its formulations through continuous in-house feeding trials spanning three decades and every life stage. Our focus is not on following trends, but on applying the lessons of feline biology, zoological nutrition, and long-term observation to the cats who share our homes.

Young study cats investigating a toy mouse beside TCfeline Original premix
Study cats living together in the Feline Future outdoor habitat

Meet the Cats Behind the Research

Since 1995, Feline Future has maintained an ongoing feeding trial unlike any other in the pet food industry.

Over the past 30 years, 61 cats have helped evaluate and refine our prey-model homemade cat food recipes in a loving home environment. Through daily observation across every life stage—from kittenhood to old age—they have provided invaluable real-world insight into the long-term safety and suitability of TCfeline.

Meet the study group and discover the cats behind 30 years of research.

Why Make Homemade Cat Food?

A homemade raw diet offers benefits that commercial dry or canned cat foods simply can’t.

Homemade cat food is never ultra-processed or derived from food industry waste-products. It is made with real, fresh meat because you add it yourself — not because it appears in a photograph on the package.

A homemade diet gives you ingredient sovereignty and the freedom to align your cat’s diet with your own values, whether that means choosing sustainable, local, ethical, organic, or simply trusted sources of meat. You remain in complete control of the most important ingredient in your cat’s nutrition.

Preparing homemade cat food with fresh meat and TCfeline Original premix

Let’s Make some Cat food!

It’s easier than you think! Anyone can do it, and it only takes 5 minutes. Homemade without a long list of individual ingredients.

Adding powdered cat food premix into a glass mixing bowl.

Measure premix

Scoop 1/4 cup premix or weigh 40 g premix. Add to bowl.

Pouring water into a mixing bowl containing powdered cat food premix.

Add water

Measure 1 cup of cold water. Add to premix, Whisk together.

Heart-shaped liver dissolving in a bowl, symbolizing love and care in homemade cat food preparation.

Add liver

Add 100 g or 1/2 cup ground or pureed raw liver.

Freshly blended natural raw cat food mix in a bowl, ready to nourish your feline friend.

Mix

Mix premix, water and liver well.

Bowl of homemade raw cat food mixture with a whisk beside it.

Add meat

Add 900 g or 1 lb raw, ground meat.

Glass bowl filled with a coarse raw cat food mixture with a spoon inside on a dark slate surface.

Mix

Mix everything well.

Heart-shaped silicone molds filled with homemade raw cat food on a dark surface with a cat sniffing nearby.

Portion

Portion into servings. Freeze for storage. Thaw before feeding.

Reinventing the mouse

The answer to perfect cat food lies in the cat’s own DNA.

Over millions of years, cats evolved as strict carnivores—every part of their physiology adapted to consume small, whole prey like mice. The blueprint for their ideal diet is in front of us. It doesn’t need to be debated—only replicated. At Feline Future, we model the feline diet on natural prey, using fresh meat as its foundation.

TCfeline premix is the bridge between meat and complete cat food. It supplies the nutrients that meat alone lacks, transforming fresh meat into a nutritional replica of a mouse. Diets that mimic the nutrient composition of prey have proven highly effective in helping prevent obesity, diabetes, and urinary stones.

Freya outside the basement apartment where Feline Future began in Vancouver in 1995
Original Feline Future logo introduced when the business was established in 1998.

The Feline Future Archive

Thirty years of feline nutrition history—one chapter at a time.

From a stray cat in a Vancouver basement suite to one of the longest continuously documented homemade feeding programmes, explore the photographs, documents, recipes and milestones that shaped Feline Future and the development of TCfeline.

The Feline Future Archive documents more than thirty years of surviving artefacts. New chapters are added as the archive continues to be restored.

Popular Pages

Cooking Meat

Feeding meat raw is, in most cases, healthier and certainly easier, but sometimes there are good reasons to cook meat for homemade cat food. This article looks at ways to cook meat and how to use TCfeline with cooked meat.

Constipation

One of the immediate benefits to feeding a homemade cat food with TCfeline and fresh meat is less poo in the litterbox and poo that smells less, because the cat’s diet doesn’t contain fillers and is more digestible.

Meat for Cats

Making homemade cat food with TCfeline gives you sovereignty over the most important ingredient: the meat. You choose where it comes from based on sources you trust, your ethical considerations, or your cat’s specific needs.

Feeding Liver

Liver is a Superfood, and no Prey Model Raw Diet is complete without it. It delivers concentrated essential nutrients not found in other parts of prey, like Vitamin A and D – which cats can not synthesize.