How do you feed the cat?
Some people say that feeding a cat is not easy. Fill the cat food with food, eat it anytime, and occasionally add canned food. Or are you a working party and don't know how to make time to feed the cat with science?
The correct way of feeding cats can make cats healthy, and the wrong way of feeding cats can make cats lose weight, malnutrition, and increase the risk of disease. Today, I will list 6 mistakes we often make when feeding cats, and see if you have made any mistakes.
1, do not control food intake
24h buffet, let cats eat freely and eat as much as they want
Free feeding is in line with the cat's nature, but only if the cat gets enough exercise. For example, feral cats can eat 8-12 meals a day, and they don't eat too much per meal. Active hunting is a lot of exercise.
Domestic cats do not exercise much, and most of them do not control their food intake. In this way, most cats will overeat by 30% to 40% and eat into fat cats.
If your cat loves to exercise and controls his food intake, try the buffet
Control your cat's daily calorie intake
(Cat food and cans will have calorie labels)
Daily basal calorie = 30 x body weight (kg) + 70, unit (kCal)
Adult sterilization x1.0 <4 months x3.0 4 months to 1 year old x2.0
2, direct food exchange
Sudden change of food is also taboo when feeding cats. It takes about a week for the cat's stomach to adapt to the new food
You can replace cat food gradually over the course of a week
Seven-day food exchange method:
Day 1-2 90% old food ➕ 10% new food
Day 3-4 60% old food ➕ 40% new food
Day 5-6 30% old food ➕ 70% new food
Day 7 and beyond 100% new food
3. Feed snacks often
Don't keep giving cats treats just because they're greedy
Feeding too many snacks will develop picky eating problems and affect the eating of staple foods
The snacks we feed are mainly [freeze-dried, cat strips], such as high-starch biscuits, high-sugar cat candy... I don't recommend everyone to feed them.
4. Make cats vegetarian
Please respect the carnivorous nature of cats [laughs and tears R] Vegetarian food cannot meet the nutritional needs of cats at all. Don't feed human leftovers, refer to the previous "Human Food That Cats Can Eat/Can't Eat"
5. Eat too much liver
There are almost no kittens who don’t like to eat liver, but we only feed the liver 1-2 times a month, or control the ratio of regular cat meals to 5%. Excessive consumption of liver will cause calcium deficiency.
6. The new food is added directly to the unfinished food
This is easy to cause cat diarrhea [support the wall R] The residual food is prone to microbial reproduction. The unfinished food should be disposed of as soon as possible, and the food bowl should also be cleaned and dried before use.
I am a working party, how many times do I feed the cat a day?
<4 months kittens are best fed 4 times a day
After that, it is recommended to use 3 times a day: wake up in the morning, go home from get off work, and go to bed at night
Calculate the daily calorie needs of the cat and allocate it to these three meals. If you still don't have time, a timed feeder is a good thing (but it is still recommended that the shoveler be used to feed regularly, and it will also enhance your relationship with the cat)
Do you have any experience in feeding cats or remind others not to make mistakes, welcome to communicate in the comment area
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