Specialists in the field of cat nutrition give slightly different recommendations than veterinary publicity actors. The very first golden rule of feeding felines is either natural food or high quality specialized food.
Ready-to-eat cat food: what it should be
High quality cat food should be available in holistic, super premium or premium classes if you want to achieve a healthy pet. Not lower at all. You can not mix ready-made feed with natural food and alternate their intake. It harms the cat's digestion.
The composition of classy feeds is calculated up to a milligram and the content of microelements in it. If this scheme is disturbed by the addition of food from the table, an imbalance will appear. For example, an excess of calcium from the introduction of dairy products into the cat's diet can lead to serious illness.
"Whiskas", "Kitiket", "Friskas" - this is what your pussy, if she had a choice, would never buy. This is an economy class food. Animals eat them with pleasure, because they contain a lot of addictive and attractive ingredients - addictive ingredients. After these feeds, pets may even refuse more expensive and high-quality products, because there are no harmful additives in these products.
If you want to transfer your cat to another food (for example "Hills") prepare for the "withdrawal" effect. This shouldn't scare you, as the animal needs time to clear the food drug from its body. Changing the type and class of food is stress for the pet, so it must be carried out smoothly and according to a certain pattern. Within a week, you need to mix the new feed with the old one, gradually reducing the proportion of the old one.
Feed only one brand of food to your cat. There is no need to arrange "holidays" with more expensive food. Each manufacturer makes its own product, with its own composition, consistency, density and balance of its constituent elements. It is not worth disturbing the balance of the pet's diet, since you are unlikely to be happy with the cat's treatment for diarrhea or constipation later.
Natural food for cats
It is more difficult with natural food for cats, no one will calculate for the owner the necessary amount of certain products that the animal needs for health. Take two types of food as a basis for nutrition - meat and dairy.
Meat. Take lean young beef (not scraps and cuttings with veins and films) and cut into cubic centimeters. Add half a spoonful of olive oil or the same amount of fiber (available in pharmacies and supermarkets), some vegetables (boiled cauliflower, spinach, cat grass, lettuce), rice or buckwheat (boiled). Meat should be 3-4 parts, and filler - 1. In this mixture you need to mix a vitamin-mineral complex for cats and probiotics. Give your pet a chicken fillet or beef heart instead of beef once a week.
A fish. Oddly enough, experts do not advise feeding cats with fish. Sometimes you can offer your pet boiled sea fish (cod, haddock, pollock).
Milk products. Take as a basis for a cat's milk table one percent kefir, which has stood open in the refrigerator during the day. Fresh product is great for weakening. From the rest of the dairy kitchen, the following are acceptable: cottage cheese up to 9%, sour cream 10%, fermented baked milk.
