Hello, my name is Natascha Wille. This is my website and I am the person behind the TCfeline premix for making homemade cat food. Feeding the domestic cats that share our homes and lives the best possible food has been my passion, my full time job, and my life these past 30 years. During all those years, and to this very day, no less then eight, and as many as 21 cats, share my life and this journey as my pets and as my study group. In these years, kittens were born, kittens grew up, and cats ate the cat foods I formulate in my home, every day and for life, some for as long as 19 years and counting. Almost all cats enter my life and study group as rescues – me helping them and them helping me in return, by providing an invaluable long term and ongoing feed trial to proof the ability of my cat food formulations to maintain good health during all life stages.

What started as a necessity to help a sick cat so many years ago expanded into the development of a homemade cat food recipe that could also be shared with others, then into the founding of an organization dedicated to helping and teaching cat owners worldwide. Now I provide cat owners with a tried and tested tool for preparing cat food at home in the form of a premix – a product that makes a cat food extremely similar to foods formulated by nutrition experts for conservation centres and zoos for the feeding of their captive wild felines, many of which are part of recovery breeding programs to save their species from extinction.

The first 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 this 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 appear on WikiHow. People used it to inspire their own websites and books, to start commercial raw frozen cat food products and meat blends, and create copy premixes and completers.

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 (on the then still quite new global internet) for a much greater and world wide 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 successfully as one of the first frozen raw cat foods in Vancouver, BC (Canada) and area – one of the birthplaces of the raw diet.

In 1998 the idea of the premix for making homemade cat food was born, because distribution of our frozen raw cat food became an impossibility after we moved with our 19 cats to rural 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.

The move to Salt Spring Island also inspired the founding of the “Centre for Feline Education” in 1999, a conservation and research organization dedicated to learning and teaching about the smaller cat species in the world, including the domestic cat. The Centre of Feline Education published a summary of the knowledge we at that time about feeding the domestic cat in the book titled “The Backyard Predator – a guide to nutrition for companion cats”, which included a further refined version of the raw meat cat food recipe. The Centre for Feline Education ceased to exist, and the book went out of print, when Scott and I parted ways not long after.

Very nearly 30 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 has evolved into a truly functional and beneficial alternative. What started as an idea has become a feasible and accessible mainstream option for many.

Today I no longer publish the recipe, because cat food made with my premix is a superior, more consistent and reliable food that can meet the demands of a world that has moved on, and demands by Veterinarians that require more data on the foods their clients feed to their patience. Using the premix makes homemade cat food far more accessible and realizable in our lives were time is in ever shorter supply, and once all the individual ingredients for a recipe are gathered up, the premix is comparatively not more expensive. Nor does it make any shortcuts despite its convenience.