Home cat - a typical predator. This is evidenced by the structure of the teeth and skull, anatomy and physiology of the digestive system, as well as the ratio of length and bowel length. In nature, wild ancestor cat eats small rodents, birds and their eggs, not shrink from reptiles and insects. We can not give our urban cats opportunity to obtain a hunting needed food and we had to assume the duty of feeding.
Feeding stuff, which gets a cat, must contain proteins, fats, carbohydrates, minerals and vitamins. Choosing the optimal diet, you need to take into account the content of nutrients, energy, perevarimost products and taste food. Diet, which fully satisfies the need for nutrients and energy, called balanced. In doing so, metabolism in the body not being violated. That is, per night animal feed it receives from so many nutrients and energy, how much is spent on the maintenance of life, movement. Only a balanced diet allows the cat to maintain in good condition from birth to old age itself deep.
Products from our table, such as sweets, pickles, smoking, sharp, salty and fried dishes, harmful cats. Is not desirable also to feed a cat to any one product, for example, only meat or fish.
The owners of cats, who think that when choosing a cat food is guided by a wise natural instinct, which tells it, what feed choose mistaken. Cats, quite the same way as people get the opportunity to choose, may prefer a tasty, but not useful food. Often found fastidiousness cats, choosing a single product and categorically refuse to feed from another, even more delicious (in terms of the owner) and useful. This is despite the fact that monotonous feeding can cause health problems.
For example, cats, which are fed only meat, do not receive the necessary number of minerals, particularly calcium. Lack of calcium can cause rickets and osteodystrophia in young animals or osteoporosis in animals older.
Cats that eat only marine fish, experiencing shortages of vitamin B, because some varieties of fish contain the enzyme that destroys this vitamin.
Eggs - digestible excellent source of animal protein. However, crude protein contains eggs mucoprotein irreversibly binding N-vitamin biotin, so cats receiving too much in the diet of raw eggs, it may be biotin failure.
Cats will be pleased to drink milk, but many adult cats it causes digestive disorder.
Correct a balanced diet for your cat is not as easy as it might seem at first glance. This can only specialist for feeding or experienced breeder. Not balanced feeding leads to diseases, sometimes severe and even fatal, which can easily be avoided if properly feed your animal. Especially hard to suffer violations of feeding valuable pure breeding animals.
Fortunately, now the problem of feeding the correct balance easily solved: there are excellent in the pet-shop ready complete all-in-one balanced feed for cats.
In pet-shop we are losing enormous variety of ready-to feed cats, as well as vitamin and mineral. Colorful, bright packaging, promising inscriptions, attracting advertising - lay difficult to orient. Usually selected boxes with attractive pussy similar to its own cat, or is it that cheap. True, pussies not always enthusiastic in our choice and may abandon the proposed "crackers". And sometimes they even upset tummy.
How can sort out the variety of ready fodder, filling shelves in the pet-shop. Now, when the pet-shop shelves influx powerful flow of a variety of ready-feed, even by experienced animal owners may impede the elections.
All dry feed can be split into three groups
expensive feed upper class, like "Premium",
commercial feed
and the cheapest - economic feed.
Cheapest - feed this economy class. This is not complete feed, that is, they do not contain all the necessary cat nutrients, vitamins and minerals in optimum proportions.
Economic feed does not taste the difference between high qualities and their digestibility is low - not more than 70%. Cheap feed containing protein and low percentage is, basically, inexpensive vegetable protein. The technology to produce fodder economic quite simple, for cooking such food are the most inexpensive ingredients. For example, instead of valuable animal protein is used soy protein plant. Economic feed does not contain additional taste additives and dyes.
The purpose of such feed manufacturers - to make possible very cheap feed for unpretentious animal. Usually economic offer as feed additives to the food home. Feeding cheaper fodder requires additions in the form of vitamin and mineral especially young animals.
Forage commercially attractive not so much for cats, but psychologically for their owners. Fodder produced in bright throws luxurious packages. Croquet diverse forms and colors look very appetizing. At the package usually attracts an inscription - with chicken, turkey, salmon, shrimp, vegetables or anything like that. It seems a huge diversity. But if we carefully read the label, it may notice that one brand of feed have absolutely the same composition, that is contain the same amount of protein, fat, carbohydrates, vitamins and minerals. They differ only multi-flavoured, as chicken, turkey, salmon, shrimp or, for example, vegetables are absolutely the same number.
In high-priced forages added small percentage of the declared ingredients. Forage commercial - complete, but not specialized. It is "standard" feed, calculated on an average some "standard" cat. They are divided only into two groups: food for kittens and adults feed for animals, and do not take into account that different cats activity, temperament have different needs for nutrients.
Commercial feed contain a significant percentage of vegetable protein digestibility, and have low - no more than 75%. Commercial feed more expensive "economic", because the lion's share of the cost of commercial feed manufacturers make up advertising costs. Business owners are buying feed enlisted advertising. To make the commercial feed appetizing smell and appearance, they usually attract add flavour additives and colorings.
Forage upper class - it is best that you can offer your cat. This all-in-one specialized feed, fully satisfying the needs of certain groups of cats in nutrients, vitamins and minerals. When using higher grade animal feed does not require any additional supplements, while taken into account not only the food needs of cats, but especially their digestion, metabolism and physiology. This is a very high feed digestibility - at least 85%, they contain a large percentage of high-value animal protein and they will no soy protein. Correctly selected higher grade feed your cats will provide health, magnificent appearance and long life. When cooking fodder top class applies the most advanced technology, selected the most expensive high-value ingredients. Those funds that commercial feed manufacturers spend on advertising, manufacturers of top-quality forage spent on the production of excellent fodder. Recipes developed by experts on animal feed feeding centers for scientific manufacturers and tested for hundreds of animals. Forage upper class never contain dyes and artificial additives taste, but they are very tasty and cats eat them with great pleasure, because they contain many valuable sources of animal protein.
Forage upper class are usually not packaged in bright catchy boxes. They are not too striking to pet-shop stalls. These are becoming fodder for their pets experts - owners of nurseries and valuable breeding animals, as well as owners of ordinary domestic cats, love their pets and closely related to their health, understand that properly feed the animal a good food - hence save on visits to the veterinarian.
Forage upper class can not cost cheap, but those who feed their pets expensive feed emit no money to the wind. In addition, they receive immense satisfaction watching his Pet in excellent shape, with appetite eat the most delicious food, they also gain money.
They say that feeding dry ready to feed cats cause digestive distress, breach of metabolism and even urolithiasis. There should return again to talk about the expensive and cheap feed. Cheap feed cats contain a low percentage of valuable animal protein and fat but high in carbohydrates, in particular starch. Cats well digest animal proteins and fats and bad carry starch. The high content of starch in the stern can cause some animals with particularly sensitive town disorder. As already mentioned, cheap feed, not entirely balanced, so they can be fed only a very unpretentious animals. When feeding cheaper fodder necessarily have to add in the diet of cat vitamins. Forage top class prepared the recipes, developed by specialists at research centers on the latest technology from the commission of selected high-quality ingredients. Feeding correctly chosen specialized food upper class can not cause any problems with animal health. In addition, a number of feed grade "premium" slightly acidified cat urine, that is, as a prophylactic against urolithiasis, reduce the risk of struvite stones. In other words, using the feeding cats feed upper class, you care about the health of your pets, saving substantial amounts on visits to the veterinarian.
Is it possible to avoid urolithiasis in cats. It is very alarming statistics shows that every second cat or the cat brought in the veterinary hospital suffering from the urolithiasis. And, as a rule, animals brought in serious condition, requiring urgent surgical intervention. If, after recovery, the animal is not receiving proper nutrition, then a few months back on the table is a veterinarian and again subjected to a very unpleasant and painful procedure, for which the owner of the animal spread considerable money. These costs money, time and nerves can be avoided if always used to feed cats only complete fully balanced slightly acidifying urine feed best marks. The fact is that the physiology of Education concretion (stones) in the bottom section of the urinary tract cats different from similar in humans. In 90% of cases of cats these stones - struvites. They are formed when a cat urine has become too alkaline. Saliva, blood, gastric juice, have a urine acidity. The normal acidity of urine pH cats 6,0-6,2. If the urine becomes alkaline, that is pH 6,8-7,2 in the bottom section of the urinary tract crystals formed cats - struvite stones. They can dissolve without resorting to operations to bring the acidity of urine if a cat to normal pH values 6,0-6,2. For this, you fed cat food, oxidizing urine. In veterinary pharmacies sold special dietary feed. They can be purchased for the purpose veterinarian. Special strongly acidifying feed a row all cats do not have to give. There are among the highest class fodder feed, slightly oxidizing urine, they serve as fodder Light prophylactic against the emergence struvites that can advise nearly all adult cats. Is it always easier to prevent disease than to cure. And cheaper, despite the fact that the oxidizing feed the highest quality - one of the most expensive. But remembering how much you pay for the operation veterinarians, you make sure that by buying only expensive feed, you save, with significant amounts.
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