Crumbling a little liver over your cat's food

A liver topper for cats is a pinch of freeze-dried beef liver, crumbled into small pieces and scattered over the food your cat already eats. Keep it occasional, count it as the cat's treat for that day, and ask your vet how much treat room your cat's diet allows. The bag says it can be fed as a topper.

How small should liver pieces be for a cat's bowl?

Small. The pieces in our freeze-dried beef liver bag are medium sized and break apart by hand, which suits a dog's reward. For a cat's bowl you take one more step: snap off a piece, then crumble it between your fingers until it is flakes.

We suggest liver for cats in small pieces, and a topper is the easiest place to follow that. Flakes spread across the food, so there is no single chunk to deal with, and you can see at a glance how much you have used.

The bag is labeled and listed for dogs. It is the same liver on a dog's food or a cat's, and the crumbling is the only thing that makes it cat sized. Our liver for cats page covers the bigger question of liver for cats in general.

Does a liver sprinkle work on wet and dry cat food?

It goes on either one. Over wet food, scatter the flakes across the top, or stir them in if you prefer. Over dry food, the flakes sit on top of the kibble.

That is the whole technique. What you control is the portion and the placement: small flakes, over the usual food, in the usual bowl.

The same idea works for a dog, and we wrote that up in liver topper for dogs. A dog's portion is bigger, so use this page for the cat's bowl.

How much of the bowl should be liver?

A pinch, not a layer. If the flakes cover the cat's food, you have used too much.

The label points the same way. The bag says: "Intended for intermittent or supplemental feeding only." And it adds: "Not intended as a complete and balanced diet." A topper is a small extra on top of the cat's usual food.

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Does a topper count as the cat's treat for the day?

Yes, in our view. On a topper day, the topper is the treat. It is the liver for that day, not liver on the bowl plus a second helping from your hand later.

So you pick one way to give it. Either the sprinkle goes on the food, or the flakes come out as a reward at another time, and not both on the same day. That keeps the counting simple.

We do not give a percentage for cats. The figure we can cite is written for dogs, so we leave a cat number out.

How do you store a bag that a cat uses slowly?

A cat's share is small, so one cat may not finish an opened bag in time. We ask you to use an opened bag within 30 days. That is our guidance, not label text, and it still applies when the bag is going slowly.

What you can do about it is pick the 1.5 ounce bag. Of the three sizes (1.5, 3 and 6 ounces), the smallest suits a household where only a cat is using it. The other way to use a bag up is to share it with a dog in the home, whose pieces are bigger and whose share is larger.

The label prints one storage line: "Store in a cool, dry place. Reseal after opening for maximum freshness." The best by date is printed on the bag, one year from production. Reseal after each topper and put the bag away. More ideas for serving liver are in the guides hub.