VegeCat Supplement

Preparing home-made cat food with Vegecat™ has many advantages:

1. Nutritionally complete meal
   • Your cat is getting 100% of nutrients from a home-cooked diet
   • If you cook cat food at home without any supplements, you must ensure that your cat is getting enough of Taurine, Vitamin D, Vitamin A, and the essential fatty acid - arachidonic acid; these are rare nutrients, which is why supplementing is the best way to provide these nutrients for anyone cooking cat food at home
2. Full control over the ingredients
   • Cooking cat meals at home gives you the ability to select the ingredients you want:
   • You can include the ingredients your cat likes and exclude those your cat doesn’t like
   • For example, you can include sweet potato and green peas and exclude corn and wheat
3. Variety
   • By cooking cat food at home, you have many options when it comes to formulating various flavours, so your cat can always have something different, which adds excitement and energy to your cat
4. Affordable
   • Cooking cat food at home and supplementing it is the most affordable way to feed your cat; one bag of supplements lasts a long time and is more economical than buying pre-made commercial kibble

NUTRITION

Vegecat™ supplement for cats provides the nutrients cats require from non-animal sources, including Taurine, Vitamin D3, Vitamin A, and the essential Arachidonic Acid, which is required for numerous vital metabolic processes.

Vegecat™ has been used by the compassionate caretakers of numerous cats throughout the world and over many, many years.

Vegecat™ products contain the rare nutrients listed below required by cats, and all from non-animal sources:

Cats need dietary taurine (a secondary amino acid), but significant quantities occur naturally only in animal tissues. A shortage causes blindness and heart disease. So it must be supplemented to a vegan diet, and Vegecat™ provides taurine.

Through biosynthesis, most mammals make vitamin A from the yellow pigment (carotene) found in vegetables. Cats lack this ability, making a dietary source of this vitamin, found naturally only in animal tissues, essential.

Vitamin D is another essential vitamin, found naturally mostly in animal tissues as vitamin D3, but is also found in some plant sources. Vegecat™️ contains plant-based vitamin D3.

INGREDIENTS

Potassium Gluconate, Calcium Carbonate, Dicalcium Phosphate, Choline Bitartrate, Taurine, Lysine, Arginine, DL-Methionine, Arachidonic Acid, L-Carnitine, Iron Amino Acid Chelate, Selenium Yeast, Zinc Amino Acid Chelate, Dried Kelp, d-alpha tocopherol acetate, Vitamin A Palmitate, Copper Amino Acid Chelate, Cholecalciferol, Riboflavin, Vitamin B12 Supplement.

GUARANTEED ANALYSIS: 

Crude Protein (min): 8.5%
Crude Fat (min): 0.4%
Crude Fiber (max): 2%
Moisture (max): 7%

Arginine (min): 4.65%, Lysine (min): 5.35%, Methionine (min): 3.35%, Arachidonic acid (min): 3.35%, Calcium (min): 9.72%, Phosphorus (min): 2.65%, Potassium (min): 5.35%, Iron (min): 670 mg/kg, Copper (min): 40.2 mg/kg, Zinc (min): 575 mg/kg, Iodine (min): 12 mg/kg, Selenium (min): 5.6 mg/kg, Vitamin A (min): 80,450 IU/kg, Vitamin D3 (min): 10,720 IU/kg, Vitamin E (min): 995 IU/kg, Riboflavin (min): 64 mg/kg, Vitamin B12 (min): 0.76 mg/kg, Choline (min): 36,870 mg/kg, Taurine (min): 5.6%, L-Carnitine* (min): 2.7%

SUPPLEMENT FACTS (per 1 gram)
Arginine: 69 mg, Lysine: 79 mg, Methionine: 50 mg, Calcium: 146.5 mg, Phosphorus: 39.5 mg, Potassium: 80 mg, Iron: 1 mg, Copper: 0.06 mg, Zinc: 0.86 mg, Iodine: 0.017 mg, Selenium: 0.0084 mg, Vitamin A: 1120 IU, Vitamin D3: 16 IU, Vitamin E: 1.49 IU, Riboflavin: 0.095 mg, Vitamin B12: 0.00114 mg, Choline: 49 mg, Taurine: 63mg.

RECIPES
Use the kibble recipe (in the Vegecat™ instructions) to make delicious kibble. Cut kibble pieces larger or smaller according to the size of your cats. You can certainly have your recipes, but do ensure you add enough Vegecat™ (see amounts below).

FEEDING AMOUNT

The amount of VegeCat varies with each recipe. See the recipe brochure for the amount of VegeCat™ powder to be added.

VegeCat™ Recipe Brochure

If you have your own recipe, then you can use the following guide.

Weight...................Daily Amount
2.3 kg.......................½ tsp. (2g)
4.5 kg.......................1 tsp. (4g)
6.8 kg.......................1-¼ tsp. (5g)
9.1 kg.......................1-½ tsp. (6g)

1 teaspoon = 4g

DURATION

•  400 g (14 oz) bottle:
  • 2.2 kg (5 lb) cat – 200 days
  • 3.6 kg (8 lb) cat – 130 days
  • 4.5 kg (10 lb) cat – 100 days

KITTENS

Kittens (up to 12 months old) should be offered ready-made commercial kibble (such as Evolution Diet's, which is suitable for all life stages, including kittens).

Vegecat™ and Urinary Health

There are some considerations for urinary health. Cats should have an acidic urine pH of 6.0 to 6.5. It is recommended to test the urine at home or at a veterinarian’s office before switching the diet and about 3 weeks after transitioning to a new diet, then periodically after – twice in the first year and at least yearly after. If alkaline urine is a problem, add cranberry powder or vitamin C (ascorbic acid) to the diet.