Every cat owners love their cats and want to keep him or her as healthy as possible.  Being overweight be a problem for cats as well as for humans.  Heart disease, arthritis, and diabetes are only a few of the serious illnesses your cat can develop because he or she is overweight.  As all cat owners knows, your little sweetie knows precisely how to play on your emotions for those delicious , though many times fattening, extra little bits of food.

How can you look into those big, wide eyes that seem to be begging , PLEASE , and still say no. You can’t ! But one thing you can do is make sure the treats you are giving your beloved feline is good for them , whether they or fat, slim, young or old.  Homemade cat food is easy to make, easy to store or freeze and most of all  your cat will purr!

The pet stores have row after row of cat treats, all of which say how your cat will love them and how healthy they are , and many of these are just as they advertise to be . However, if you would like to get a little more personal with your cats eating habits, and want to know for sure what they are eating.  Here are a few tasty, but healthy little cat treats that will them having purring to their hearts content.

I don’t usually put recipes in my articles, but this one looked so great I thought you might just want to try it. It starts with tuna, a no brainier.  In all my life I have never seen a cat who didn’t just love a nice scrumptious morel of fish.

Here is all you need. It will make 12 British Shorthair cat cookie treats.

6 ounce can of tuna
¼ cup water drained from can of tuna
¼ cup cornmeal
½ cup whole wheat flour
1 cooked egg white

Preheat oven to 350.

Combine tuna, egg white and water. Add cornmeal and flour and blend to form a dough. Knead into ball and roll ¼ inch thick. Cut into one inch size pieces and bake for 20 minutes.

That is all there is to it and your little ball of fur will love you for it.

You can find dozens if not hundreds of different home made cat treats on the internet or even from cat food recipe books found at your local pet shop. I can not even begin to print them all, but I did want to let you to know they are not only out there and available, but very healthy for your cat. Jump in and try one. When you see the reaction your cooking gets, it will all be work the little bit of effort.