If you use organ meat you don't have to add taurine.

I've been comparing the cost of Miranda's fresh diet with the cost of a
wet food diet for a couple of years now, and fresh meat runs to
approximately the same cost as prime wet food. Sometimes it can even be
cheaper. I give Mir a supplement with vitamins and e.g. taurine every
day, and she is doing fine. I wish this supplement pill was available
over there, but it's a Finnish product, and I just checked the
manufacturer's web pages. They don't export this product. I'm wondering
why. They do export other animal-health products.

May I ask what kind of canned food you are buying now?

I have often thought of feeding Kenzie canned food, but reading
ingredients in the pet stores has been disappointing, to say the least.

TIA

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"Life without cats would be only marginally worth living."
-TC, and the unmercifully, relentlessly, sweet calico kitty, Kenzie.

How you behave towards cats here below determines your status in Heaven.
- Robert Heinlein

Life is very difficult. Once you understand that, life becomes easier.
-

I always feed my two wet food.  Boyfie craves a bit of dry (I think he was
probably used to it before he came here)  so I let him have a couple of
tablespoonsful.  He cries for it if I don't give him just a little every
day.

The idea of dry food is great.   It has everything in it that a cat could
possibly need.   Just shake out some from the box and your cat is fed.

I'm not convinced that dry food is good for cats, or dogs.  They like it,
and eat until they feel full.  Then they drink some water, which swells the
food inside their stomach.  In dogs that are prone to gastric torsion
(bloodhounds, bull mastiffs etc) feeding a dry diet can be fatal.

I've also learned from the group that a dry food fed exclusively can cause
boycats to have urinary blockages.
I don't want that for my Boyfie.
If you work out a home made diet with taurine, I would be very interested to
hear about it.  Especially how to find taurine to add.
I think I could make up a diet for Kitty FC myself if I knew where I could
get the vitamins/minerals she also needs to add to it.
She's not all that keen on the kidney diet from the vet now, even though she
fell upon it when she first got it.
I would feed her only on white meat - easier for the kidneys - chicken,
fish, turkey if I could find a source for taurine and the other vits/mins
she needs.  Plus a tiny bit of carbs and vegs of course.

The natural diet for a cat is mousies and birdies and ratties.  They are wet
food, there is a lot of moisture there.  Not only that but eating the
feathers, bones and skin makes their bowels work perfectly.  Kitty FC has
lived as long as she has on this sort of diet.

It's not always possible to let your cats have a wild life, like mine, I
know, but from what I've learnt it's a bad idea to feed them exclusively
dry.
My vet says that feeding dry food for every meal "challenges the kidneys
eventually."

Tweed