Cats mainly eat meat. But it is also an omnivore. They are active and have a strong metabolism, so they need enough nutrition to live a healthy life. Adult cats can eat 150-240 grams of food every day, with two meals in the morning and evening. If it's homemade food, it's best to cook it. Prevent parasites.
Protein is the most important nutrition for cats. They need protein twice as much as dogs and four times as much as people. For young cats, the proportion of protein in food should reach 33-40%, and for adult cats, protein must also reach 22-26%.
For people, there are eight essential amino acids. There are ten kinds for cats. Lysine, tryptophan, phenylalanine, methionine, threonine, isoleucine, leucine, valine, arginine and histidine. Arginine and histidine are not essential amino acids for human body. Therefore, the milk powder eaten by humans may be malnutrition for cats. The role of arginine is to ensure urea synthesis and prevent blood ammonia poisoning. Histidine is necessary for development.
In addition, taurine is very important to ensure the development of cat retina. If it is lacking, it will lead to retinal degeneration. If it is homemade food instead of cat food, it needs a variety of combinations and frequent replacement to meet the needs of cats.
Besides protein, fats and carbohydrates can also provide energy for cats. Cats are oil-tolerant, with 60% fat in their food, and they eat happily. Especially for kittens, high-fat food is good for development.
For adult cats, unsaturated fat can provide linolenic acid and arachidonic acid necessary for reproduction and health. But too much fat can lead to obesity. Too much fat can also lead to vitamin E deficiency. Fat accounts for 15-40% of cat food.
Cats generally hate to eat carbohydrates, that is, rice starch foods, but they can actually digest them. If you want the cat to eat starchy food, mix it with meat.
Cats must not eat vegan food. But you can't eat pure meat Therefore, the combination of meat and vegetables is still excellent. It is not good to feed the cat with leftovers.
Most cats can't eat milk. Because of lactose intolerance. But goat milk can.
Cats can't convert carotene into vitamin A, but cats need vitamin A very much for their eyesight. So it is excellent to feed the animal liver occasionally, once a week 1-2 times. Cats need to supplement 500-700 micrograms of vitamin A every day, and sick cats, young cats and pregnant cats may need more. If vitamin A is lacking, cats will suffer from slow growth, brain edema and reproductive disorders.
However,100g of pig liver contains 1370-4600 micrograms of vitamin A. Never take pig liver and chicken liver as the staple food of cats, which will cause nutritional and metabolic diseases. Eating too much vitamin A will lead to vitamin A poisoning and limping until the body is stiff. Too much vitamin A in kittens can inhibit bone development. Eating animal liver for a long time will also cause calcium deficiency. No need to feed cod liver oil.
Cats, like people, can synthesize vitamin D by themselves through sunlight. Therefore, there is no need to supplement vitamin D, just let people bask in the sun. Too much vitamin D can also be poisoned, leading to calcification of soft tissue.
Cats don't need vitamins K, C, B2 and B 12. However, cats need vitamin B 1, PP, E, and folic acid, which is also rich in chicken liver. Lack of folic acid can lead to anemia. Raw fish contains enzymes that destroy vitamin B 1, so it must be cooked before it is given to cats. Cats are particularly sensitive to ve deficiency. Lack can lead to muscle atrophy.
You can add some salt to the cat's drinking water. This can stimulate the cat to drink water. Prevention of urinary calculi. Adding some vinegar to food can prevent arthritis and urinary calculi. Although I think this salty food is a bit strange. ...
Calcium is important. Pregnant cats need 200-400 mg of calcium every day. The result of calcium deficiency is more serious than that of people. Cats also need iodine. If you are at the seaside, it is also excellent to feed some marine fish occasionally.
It is right to give pregnant cats some chicken liver to supplement vitamin A and folic acid. Calcium supplementation is also necessary. Milk is the best calcium supplement food. If your pregnant cat is lactose intolerant, give it some goat milk powder. After 5 weeks of pregnancy, the food intake will increase to 65438+ 0.5 times of usual. But eat less and eat more, regularly and quantitatively. Mothers who breastfeed cats need to regularly supply some milk, eggs and fish soup to promote lactation.
Now most cat slaves feed cat food. In fact, these nutritional problems do not need to be known. But it's always good to know, right?
There are three kinds of cat food: dry, semi-cooked and raw. Dry nutrition is comprehensive, has the function of grinding teeth, and tastes monotonous; Raw forms have various flavors and are easy to digest and absorb. Pay attention to the shelf life; Semi-ripe type has balanced nutrition and is softer than dry type, which is suitable for young cats and old cats with bad teeth. Pay attention to prevent deterioration. There are some cans, but you can't eat them often.
Actually, cat food is not the meat we usually eat. Is prepared from blood products such as meat powder, bone powder, meat and bone powder, blood powder, plasma powder, dried plasma, spinal cord, animal brain, dehydrated protein, hoof powder, horn powder, oil residue, gelatin, etc. Collectively referred to as animal food residue. These fragments may contain excessive heavy metals, because we know that heavy metals are usually deposited on bones.
There are also bacteria exceeding the standard, such as Salmonella, Staphylococcus aureus, Escherichia coli, Listeria monocytogenes and Clostridium perfringens. Cats should have diarrhea after eating it. It is said that nearly 50% of domestic cat food contains Escherichia coli. Especially wet food. There are other toxic and harmful substances. In the United States, because of mad cow disease, the brain and spinal cord of animals are also banned from entering cat food. Some pet feed is leather waste. Although leather scraps can also be used as pet feed after dechroming, if dechroming is not complete, it will cause heavy metal poisoning.
Dog food can't be used as cat food because there is too little taurine in dog food. Cats will be blind and deaf if they eat for a long time. Generally, the grain content in cat food is too high, so it is necessary to give the cat some meat and fish from time to time. Dry food is not suitable for eating all the time because of lack of water.
There is a lot of fat in cat food. After all, the digestibility of fat has reached 95-98%. However, fat is easily oxidized, which means it stinks. Oxidized cat food can cause hair loss, skin ulcers and even death. So there are antioxidants in cat food.
However, it is said that cat food is more conducive to protecting cats' teeth than cooking. Because cat food is dry and hard, it is good for grinding teeth and not good for the growth of dental plaque.
Onions contain disulfide, which can cause hemolytic anemia in cats, which is a terrible emergency. Don't let the cat touch the onion. There are no onions.
Eating too much fish can lead to yellow lipomatosis and papules in the stomach.
Don't give the cat bones, because the cat is very lazy. If they don't chew, they swallow. Bones can cause perforation of the digestive tract.
Cats eating too much sweets can lead to tooth decay and obesity. Only once in a while.
Some cats are allergic to seafood. Don't feed seafood such as sea fish.
The ovalbumin in raw eggs will deplete the vitamin H in cats, causing hair loss, weakness, growth retardation, skeletal deformity and other adverse symptoms, so cats can't eat raw eggs.
Green leafy vegetables and fruits are basically not suitable for cats. Cats can't eat too many grapes, because grapes can cause hypercalcemia, hyperphosphatemia and acute renal failure. Cats can't eat too many fruits with high vitamin C content. Because VC can cause urine acidification and urinary calculi.
It is said that fishy food can stimulate cats' appetite.
For wild cats, the main predation strategy is latent. After finding the prey, they are not eager to get close to it first, but slowly approach from the leeward and behind the prey. Sometimes they wait for them at the water source. Close enough for a fatal jump. In fact, most cats do.
Cats are often infected with parasites, so we should do a good job in the prevention and control of parasites. It is said that a cat can have up to 300 kinds of parasites, such as hookworms, tapeworms, nematodes, roundworms and so on. More than half of them are zoonotic diseases. So be careful not to get infected with parasites when stroking wild cats.
The cat licks the water with its tongue. This licking process is very special. Cats don't use their tongues as spoons like dogs. Instead, they quickly touch the liquid surface with their tongues and then retract. The liquid is pushed down by the tongue, forming a bulge.
At the same time, when the tongue retracts, it will also bring up some liquid, which will enter the cat's mouth by inertia and reaction. Before gravity makes the liquid fall, the cat just needs to shut up. In fact, a cat's tongue will not bring liquid into its mouth. This process is really exquisite. Cats can stick out their tongues four times a second and bring back 0. 1-0.4 ml of liquid each time.
Cats sometimes eat mice killed by drugs. The processing method is also very simple. Wash and mash the cactus and pour the juice into the cat's mouth. Adult cats need 30-40ml, and young cats need10-20ml. I'm sure it can be cured.
Some cats have pica. For example, eating plastic bags, eating stockings and destroying potted plants. The solution is not difficult. Get some mousetraps and put them upside down near the plants. When you touch them, they will make a loud noise, and then they will be scared slowly. It is said that you can also spray deodorant, which cats especially don't like.
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