A Tasty Morsel For Your Cat - Boiled Chicken Feet.

Chicken feet are cheap and require little effort to make into a nutritious food to offer your cat for a change. Typically used to make stock and in Chinese cuisine with spices, browned in oil and then pressure cooked; all this is unnecessary if you just boil them. Their nutrition is natural, wholesome and preparing them my way means they get all the goodness of the finely ground bones and marrow as well as tendon, ligaments, chondroitin of the cartilage of the joints and the collagen and elastin of the skin.

I get a large bag, put them in a stout plastic bag ( stout to stop their frozen toes sticking through) and freeze them.

After defrosting say seven or so, rinse them and then I check the pads and trim off any discoloured patches with sharp scissors. Then using the same scissors I cut the toes off at angle above the toe, just cover them with boiling water and simmer for twenty minutes. I add a little soy, Bragg's Aminos or a pinch of Lo Salt (this is a low sodium, high potassium salt)  to bolster the flavour though you will know the flavour as it pervades your kitchen.

After they are cool, keep the cooking liquid and put aside. With a small aperture disc in place I grind them, bones and all and collect the mash into a seal-able container and add the liquid that was put aside. I think it is important not to add the detritus in the grinder as this sometimes has shards of bone that might catch.

Try them on your puss in the usual amount. My cat goes berserk for them and its only my marbles tray that slows her down. Keep them in the coldest part of the fridge with the lid on tight - they have a very strong chickeny smell.