How about organic meat canned for humans? You'd have to add the minerals and vitamins with that stuff that's mixed with raw food (brain freeze here on the name), but it would be organic and canned. Surely if there were an emergency, the hospital could actually measure a bit out for her to eat?
http://www.wildplanetfoods.com/product/value-vault-organic-roasted-chicken-breast-nsa-12-pack/
https://www.foodcity.com/product/0004711709700/
I think I'd be tempted to try some of the canned meats from the Amish. They don't go after "organic" labeling b/c of hoops, but they eat organic, and that's why so many of them are so much healthier than (for lack of a better word) "normal people" are. I know preppers use the Troyer and Yoder brands of canned meats, and there's a ton of different meats available.
I can't remember. What is Agar-Agar? http://naturalplanetpetfood.com/pet-food/cat-dinner/10
Agar-agar is a seaweed thickener that pet food companies have started using after consumers caught on to how bad carrageenan is. Don't be fooled, it's no better.
Dee I so appreciate you trying to help me. Canned meat for human meats can't be balanced with premixes, even ones like EZcomplete which can be used with either raw or cooked meat.
The reason is, the amounts of premixes to use are based on the meat when it is raw. Even if you're going to cook it, you need to know the weight of the meat raw first. Then the meat has to be cooked in a way that all juices are retained and added to the final product.
With canned meat there is no way of knowing the weight of the meat or if the juices were retained. And of course they also are much too high in sodium for cats, even the "reduced sodium" brands.
All the pet food organic brands have nasty things in them. If not carrageenan, grains, or fruits and vegetables, or weird crap. I've searched and searched.
One of the reasons I want a canned food is because, for some reason, when Mazy cat is ill, or on antibiotics, she goes off her raw diet. She loves it, but last summer with her mouth trouble, and subsequent baytril and this past winter when she was on the baytril, she flat out refused to eat any raw. At those times I still had some of the By Nature left. I still do, but the cans' best by date is May 2017.
I don't know if there is any out there with a later date..I've thought about looking on e bay, but I've never bought anything from e bay and don't trust it.
Edited to add...actually Dee it wouldn't be a bad idea to at least keep a can or two handy, just in case I face what happened the other night again. I mean, it wouldn't hurt her to eat an unbalanced meal a time or two. If she could keep it down. She needs her food mashed fine, but I could do that with a fork. I did it with the Tiki, after all. I'll need to see if I can find it in singles though, not a whole case. So thank you for that great idea!. But wait a minute (editing again) Mazy cat needs a slow introduction to anything new. She can handle the By Nature, even when she hadn't had it for a long time, because she ate it for years, so her body was used to it. I'd have to start adding a meal of this to her rotation on a regular basis. Oh gosh, that won't work. Even with no salt added you know it's still too high in sodium for a cat.
I do slow transitions even now. I never allow her food to run out before I have a new batch waiting, and the last week of the old batch is rotated with the new batch so she gets a slow transition. Everything. Meat, Rad Cat, supplements, EZc, I do that with EVERYTHING that goes into her.