TCfeline – Original & Special Formula, premix for making homemade raw cat food

Ingredients TCfeline Original:

New Zealand freeze-dried bovine bone*; Canadian gelatin from pork skin; New Zealand whey protein isolate*; taurine; Canadian freeze-dried krill; calcium carbonate; Vitamin E succinate, Vitamin A palmitate, Vitamin D3, Potassium Iodide. (*from grass-fed cattle)

Contains real bone – the original premix for making homemade cat food. Suitable for cats of all ages. Requires addition of fresh liver during preparation. Use only with boneless meats. Preparation takes minutes, especially when using ground meat. Mix 40 g (1/4 cup) of premix with 250 ml (1 cup) of water and add 100 g (1/2 cup) raw liver and 900 g (2 lbs) raw, boneless meat of your choice to make a “batch” of homemade raw cat food for 10 days. Divided finished food into daily portions and freeze for storage. User Guide is included with every 40 g sample and 720 g pouch.

Ingredients TCfeline Special Formula:

New Zealand grass-fed whey protein isolate, calcium carbonate, taurine, Canadian freeze-dried krill, Feline Future B Complex (Choline L-Bitartrate, Niacin, D-Calcium Pantothenate, Methylcobalamin, Thiamine Mononitrate, Pyridoxine HCI, Riboflavin, Folic Acid, D-Biotin), Vitamin E succinate, Vitamin A palmitate (Retinol), Vitamin D3, Potassium Iodide.

Special premix suitable for a variety of applications depending on preparation. Contains no bone or gelatin, making it lower in overall Phosphorus and Calcium (“ash”) and is suitable for cats benefiting from such a diet. Can be prepared as a reduced protein diet by addition of cooked jam and butter for cats with advanced kidney disease. Does not require addition of raw liver and can be used with cooked meat. This versatile premix is also suited to add fresh bone back into the food by use of meats ground with bone. For the base recipe, mix 20 g (approx. 3 level Tbsp)  of premix with 250 ml (1 cup) of water and add 900 g (2 lbs.) raw, boneless meat of your choice to make a “batch” of homemade raw cat food for 9 days. Divided finished food into daily portions and freeze for storage. User Guide is included with every 20 g sample and 400 g pouch.

Motivation behind creating the premix

For the past 29 years I have been motivated to give people a better understanding of their cats and provide a product that eases the commitment of feeding a homemade raw meat diet.

In my experience, feeding cats a homemade diet prepared with fresh, raw meat can help prevent diseases which cause heartache for millions of cat owners and rob millions of cats of quality of life, because this diet mimics the nutritional composition of what our desert-dwelling mouse-hunters would naturally eat.

What is the TCfeline raw cat food premix?

The ingredients of the premix are essentially the supplements you would buy as capsules, powders, and pills when following the do-it-yourself “from scratch” homemade raw cat food recipe. The premix combines all of these supplements in their accurate amounts and proportions to save you from having to source and buy all these components separately. Instead of measuring, counting, and squeezing half a dozen individual ingredients before you even weigh your meats and measure your water, the premix is just one scoop.

TCfeline raw cat food premix is one of the few products where convenience does not compromise quality. It has stood the test of time and established itself as an exceptional product. It remains unequaled in quality and research and is, in my mind, the best thing to feed to cats next to mice. I source the ingredients exactly in the same places where supplement manufacturers source their ingredients to put into pills, capsules, or bottles that you then buy at health food stores or pharmacies.The price of the premix is the same or less as buying all the supplements separately.

Another benefit of buying the premix is that you only buy exactly what you need, instead of quantities of different supplements that all get used up at different times. Instead of storing half a dozen different jars in your cupboard or fridge, you have just one pouch of TCfeline premix.

Last, but not least, I am able to enhance the premix with ingredients you would likely not buy retail. Freeze-dried New Zealand bovine bone isn’t available in every health food store and neither is Arctic freeze-dried krill.

The TCfeline premix is carefully hand-made and is not taking anything away from the home-made cat food despite being a pre-made product. My own cats eat it every day.

Development of TCfeline

The TCfeline premix is the result of my dedication and passion for cats. It is backed by my study of feline nutrition since 1995, and an ongoing feed trial since 1998. It combines the study of the natural habits of small, wild felines, the nutritional analysis of mice, research into nutrients and foods, comparison to established official nutritional requirements of cats, first hand application, and many years of trials. The premix is being further developed and improved on constantly, as well as tested extensively in house with my own cats every day.

Some pet food companies, including raw food manufacturers, pride themselves in their foods having been tested in independent feeding trials to proof adequate for the feeding of cats. At the end of these 26 weeks long independent laboratory feeding trials, all the cats that helped establish the results are typically euthanized or are kept on site for another feeding trial. To me this is not ethical. In lieu, I have been conducting my own, ongoing, in-house feeding trial with my own cats, using my premix, in my own home since 1998. My group of cats averages 10 individuals with most of them, over the past 26 years, having been rescued cats. Some arrived as kittens, but they all stay for life, which has been as long as 20 years.

What can you expect?

The cat food prepared with TCfeline is entirely designed to meet the needs of your desert-dwelling mouse-hunter. The premix in blended using only the very highest quality, human grade ingredients. Your cat will not have to eat much of the resulting cat food to meet his or her nutritional and caloric needs. 1/2 cup of food per day divided into 2-3 servings is sufficient for most adult cats. This is ideal for a creature who is adapted to eating small, highly digestible meals throughout the day.

The following is a list of attributes true for most cats when fed exclusively this raw meat diet. (Results will depend on the overall care and devotion given to the cat, as well as the quality of his/her environment and emotional well being.)

  • Less stool with hardly any odor
  • Stool is firm, pellet-like, and may only be passed every other day
  • Regular, possibly increased urine output due to moisture content of the food
  • Less water drinking
  • Over time, a soft, lustrous, glossy coat
  • Fewer if any hair balls
  • Thin cats will gain muscle; overweight cats will lose weight
  • Development of lean muscle to support cat’s athletic ability

In my own study of feeding this diet exclusively to a group of cats since 1998, the following conditions were 100% PREVENTED:

  • Bladder infections, and Lower Urinary Disorder caused by urinary crystals (struvite and oxalate)
  • Obesity
  • Diabetes
  • Irritable Bowel Disease
  • Kidney Disease

It is my heart-felt hope and wish to PREVENT many common illness afflicting cats today through education and through encouragement to start your cat on the path to better health BEFORE disease sets in.

Using TCfeline

TCfeline premix is easy to use. With the premix, preparing a homemade diet becomes a simple thing: add water, liver and raw meat; its all you need. The resulting cat food is well liked by most cats, especially when they are already accustomed to eating raw meat.

Feeding a raw diet made with TCfeline diet will not break the bank, or be your new full-time job. A typical batch of cat food is prepared and packaged in as little as six minutes, and the cost of the raw cat food it is comparable to feeding store-bought canned cat food.

The premix powder is used to make a 9- 10 day “batch” of cat food by mixing the premix with water and adding fresh, raw meat. Instructions are always provided with each pouch of the premix. The finished cat food is then frozen as individual daily portions for storage. It is thawed before feeding. Some cat owners like to warm the food before feeding. The raw cat food is meant to be fed as meals, 2-3 times per day. Uneaten portions are promptly removed and placed in the refrigerator for later. Thawed, unused portions should be discarded after 48 hours.

Quality Guarantee:

My raw cat food premixes are always fresh and hand-made with great care by myself from ingredients of known origin and purity. Ingredients used to blend the premixes are foods and pharmaceuticals intended for people. These ingredients are extensively tested by the respective manufacturers for purity and safety, and all of them are safe to feed to cats. The premixes are made in small batches, precision measured, blended, sifted, and packaged by hand in a spotless facility. My own cats eat the same premixes that I sell to my clients, every day, and have so since the inception of the raw cat food premix in 1998. This may possibly equal the longest running feed trial for a cat food supplement.

Pure and simple ingredients:

The premix is added to fresh raw meat without bone to create a homemade cat food. Meats are typically obtained from the grocery store and can be used ground or cut into small chunks or be made up of a combination of both. A variety of meats can and should be used. Water is added for texture and should be adjusted to best suit the type and texture of the meat used.