Cats surprise with their habits, unpredictability and willfulness. But in order for a pet to be healthy and cheerful, have a smooth and silky coat, it is necessary to provide it with adequate nutrition, enriched with vitamins and useful additives.
Feeding your furry pet
Many cat owners train their animals to eat what they eat themselves. Such food does not fully replenish the cat's body with useful trace elements and vitamins. But a pet, like a person, needs a full, sufficiently high-calorie diet.
Pet food manufacturers produce a wide variety of dry and wet cat foods. This takes into account the breed of the animal, sex, age and activity. For growing kittens, we recommend feed balanced with the necessary amount of microelements and vitamins for a growing body.
An animal that lives only within the confined space of an apartment and does not lead an active lifestyle needs special lightweight nutrition. These feeds contain less carbohydrates and fats. The elderly also need special meals that are easy to digest.
It should be remembered that it is not recommended to feed cats frequently with liver products. From this, they develop urolithiasis and difficulty urinating.
Canned feed
A healthy fish or meat-based diet is the best for your pet's daily diet. Therefore, it is imperative to give ready-made food in dry or canned form to the cat.
You can't talk about the benefits or harms of certain types of feed, which one is good and which one is bad. One has only to know that products prepared in hermetically sealed packages contain a large percentage of sugar and salt, which are necessary for preservation. An animal does not need such an amount of these components for daily use.
Excess sugar can lead to periodontal disease and gingivitis in cats. This will then lead to gum inflammation and further tooth loss.
Dry food for cats
As for dry cat food, it contains a large amount of carbohydrates. Constant use of it leads to overfeeding of the animal and overweight. As a result - early diabetes in the pet. The main carbohydrate content is found in cereal supplements. And this is an excess of starch. Cats do not digest it well. After all, natural natural food for them is small animals, rodents and birds. Their carbohydrate content is minimal.
Dry fish food contains a high percentage of calcium and phosphorus salts, and they have a negative effect on the functioning of the kidneys and ureter.
When feeding your pet with any kind of dry food, you need to remember that the animal needs a lot of drinking.
Natural feed
You can also prepare fish food for your fluffy pet yourself. To do this, you can boil small peeled fish in slightly salted water. Grind it in a meat grinder and add special vitamins for cats. The combination and dosage of vitamins should be consulted with a veterinarian. You can also cook boiled poultry or animal meat.
You should not "add" your pet to any one type of food. It is better to alternate dry, natural and canned foods. What and how to feed - choose the owner of the cat. After all, the main thing is the health of the pet.
