Summer Recipes For Your Cat

Although there are alternative foods to reinforce the hydration of the kittens, it must be borne in mind that these must be offered as a supplement or reward, not as a substitute for their usual diet.

Although our cats need optimal nutrition throughout the year, it is important to redouble your attention with the arrival of summer. During the summer season, our kittens should see their hydration strengthened and have a complete, but lighter, diet. To do this, you can use summer recipes for your cat.

Water: the best of the summer ‘recipes’ for your cat

With high temperatures, the body of cats can lose a good amount of fluids and electrolytes. Therefore, the animal needs to drink water or other healthy drinks to rehydrate and regain the balance of its body.

If a kitten does not drink enough water in hot weather, this often leads to low metabolism and dehydration. The consequence is that symptoms such as tiredness or lethargy, low blood pressure, dizziness and even fainting appear.

The lack of hydration and water that our pets need can lead to more serious problems. Also, a poor fluid intake impairs your kidney function, increasing the risk of failure.

Cats don't drink as much water

The importance of drinking lots of water

Even during the summer it is common for kittens to not show much interest in consuming water. Therefore, owners need to add fluids to their diet in a more ‘creative and attractive’ way to combat dehydration. It is very useful to be able to please the kittens with a delicious and refreshing homemade recipe.

Of course, we will continue to leave fresh and clean water available to our kittens in their drinking fountain. But we will also stimulate your curiosity and appetite with popsicles, juices and homemade wet foods. The important thing is that these preparations contain a high percentage of liquids and beneficial foods.

Next, we will see some ideas of summer recipes for your cat. But remember that these preparations will be offered as complements or occasional treats.

It is important that these summer recipes are not incorporated as the basis of your kitty’s diet. In addition, it is essential to have the guidance of a veterinarian to offer optimal nutrition to your cat in summer.

Cat polo shirts: refresh your kitty’s palate!

Cat polo shirts are very refreshing preparations, which can be made with fruits and vegetables that are good for feline health. You can also make salty ice creams with an animal protein – such as chicken or fish – and vegetables such as carrot or pumpkin.

Cat polo shirts

Since most adult felines are allergic to lactose, we will not use milk or ordinary dairy in the recipes. To replace it, we can use vegetable milk –rice– or natural low-fat or lactose-reduced yogurt. Or simply make a water-based ice cream, 100% lactose free.

This is the basic recipe to make an exquisite fruit lolly for your pussycat. Remember that it is possible to incorporate any fruit or vegetable that is beneficial for your cat’s health; It will always be important to offer the ice cream in a moderate way.

Refreshing multi-fruit polo shirt for cats

Ingredients:

Two strawberries
Half an apple cut into wedges without seeds
½ peach cut into chunks, pitted
Two slices of cucumber
½ cup of vegetable rice milk

Elaboration:

First, we process and crush the fruits, and the cucumber with the vegetable rice milk until we obtain a homogeneous preparation.

Then we put the mixture in the molds to make ice cubes and we take it to the freezer.
When our poles are ready, we can offer one cube per day to our kitten.