To feed a cat with a dry feed would be just ideal decision. It quickly, conveniently and economically. But whether it is worth tormenting your favourite, giving him instead of meat opposite crackers? And whether it is harmful to his health?
Features of feeding by a dry feed
It should be noted that the dry feed is a balanced full-fledged diet therefore it is necessary to give it to the cat by certain rules. First, surely choose a qualitative forage and do not try to save on it. Certainly, for pets it is quite possible to buy food cheaper, but, believe, penny-wise and pound-foolish. Cheap forages do not cause saturation of animals and are eaten in bigger quantity, than a premium class stern. Besides, in quality and balance of such diet there are very strong doubts. It is better to choose good healthy nutrition which will definitely not do much harm to his health for the favourite.That your cat remained healthy and vigorous, the dry feed should be given according to the instruction on packing. There the necessary quantity of a forage calculated on the pet's weight is always specified. You remember also that the dry diet demands constant availability of moisture. You watch that the cat always had an access to fresh water. One more important nuance – balance of a diet. As the dry feed already contains everything that is necessary for your pet, you should not add to his diet something spontaneously. A treat with vitamins or fried cutlet, perhaps, will also please your cat, but can become a cause of infringement of a metabolism and will lead to serious consequences. Therefore that the cat was healthy, you feed only her with a dry feed, without adding anything.
Urolithic disease and dry feedThere is an opinion that the use of a dry feed can cause development of an urolithic disease in cats. Partly, it is justified. Feeling of thirst at cats not really strong, using a dry feed, they receive less moisture with food that does urine more concentrated. For this reason it is necessary to watch that the animal had an opportunity to drink waters. By the way, producers of qualitative dry feeds add to them the substances provoking thirst. Cats, on the contrary, drink more willingly. If the urolithic disease at your pet already developed, or he suffers from any form of a renal failure, the dry feed is contraindicated to him at all. One more undoubted plus of such forage – the producer easily can not only make it completely balanced, but also adds medicinal substances to structure. Today in all assortment lines of serious producers of forages there are diet options reducing risk of development of an urolithic disease in cats or helping to avoid its recurrence.