Often people's pets brighten up people's lives, the path to the heart of which lies through the stomach.
Eating a cat at home is a serious topic. The state of health of a pet, respectively, and the calmness of the owner depend on nutrition.
Feed ready-made feed
It’s more convenient and easier to feed a cat with ready-made feeds, even if canned, even dry. You need to know that dry prepared feeds are far from identical, some of them are good feeds, but there are also bad ones. Good cat foods include Eukanuba, Hills, Eagle Pack, Iams, Nutro Choice. It is not recommended to buy dry feed by weight in the markets. This is unreliable.
Eating cats dry food implies the availability of food and water in the public domain. Manufacturers speak of an approximate feed rate on a package, the feed is measured with a measuring cup, the size of which is different for each manufacturer. Water is not considered milk or kefir.
Usually, up to 9 months of age, or even up to a year, the cat is fed with feed for kittens. Later, the usual "adult" feed is used. It is necessary to switch to another feeding gradually, within 1-2 weeks, while the portions of the previous feed are reduced, and the portions of the adult feed are increased.
Sometimes the owners try to make the food of the cat combined. Canned and dry foods can only be combined in one line of one manufacturer. It is considered necessary to use cat urine analysis once a year or six months when using ready-made feeds or changing feeds.
Natural nutrition for the cat.
With the natural type of feeding, the diet should have two dishes - sour-milk and meat.
Making a meat dish is quite simple. Chilled lean beef, without veins and bones, is cut into small pieces the size of a nail. Add half a spoonful of olive oil to the meat, slightly mashed boiled cauliflower, ordinary cabbage, mashed boiled beets, spinach, lettuce, chopped cat grass, or buckwheat or rice, in a ratio of 4 parts of meat to 1 part of filler products. Vitamins and mineral supplements are also added here as recommended by the veterinarian and are offered to the cat.
At its discretion, the nutrition of the cat can be varied with other types of meat, once a week you can give the cat a beef heart, cut into slices, with all the additives. You can’t feed a cat a liver, as it contains many vitamins and also many parasites. It is undesirable to consider chicken as the main meat component. Fish can only be given occasionally.
It is permissible to use a variety of dairy products as food for cats. The basis is considered to be one percent kefir, which stood in open form on the table for 1 day, and in the refrigerator for 3 days. Sometimes you can give yogurt unsweetened and without fruit, also 10% sour cream, previously diluted with boiling water, as a treat - fermented baked milk.
There should always be grass in the reach of the animal. Wheat or oats can be grown at home in a crate like a green conveyor.
With natural nutrition, urinalysis should be taken once every four months.
Castrated cats
They require special care, another approach requires nutrition of castrated cats. After an operation to remove the testes, the cat is at increased risk of developing urolithiasis, which is manifested in the formation of kidney stones. In animals, stones formed in the bladder are very difficult to excrete. In castrated cats, the urethra is narrowed; therefore, it is almost impossible to remove stones.
Fish is removed from the animal's diet, as it contains special substances that contribute to the formation of the most common stones in cats and cats.
The development of urolithiasis in neutered cats is also facilitated by the fact that they urinate less often. Therefore, fresh water should be constantly present, especially when feeding a cat with dry food.
In the case when a castrated cat drinks little water, it is necessary to change the diet completely, transfer the animal to natural food with the use of offal, poultry, beef, vegetables and cereal, dairy products.
Consultation with a veterinarian is advisable.
British cats
If you have British cats, whose food should be varied, you should not save on meat for your pet. Offering a cat fish, you need to boil it and remove the bones, fish products should not be repeated in the menu more than 1 time per month. It is useful to add cereals to canned food or meat, to introduce feed additives, a cat needs to receive up to 60 types of nutrients per day. To maintain the cat's tone, you need to take care of balanced healthy feeding.
You need to remember the main rule that you can not mix ready-made feeds and natural ones.