The basic rule of feeding of the British cat is in considering her specific features. Knowledge of the general recommendations has to be combined with studying features and habits of your pet. In this case you will be able to provide to the house favourite high-quality and good nutrition and do not cause damage to her health.
It is required to you
- Feeding trough for food
- Drinking bowl
- Natural meat and dairy products
- Grain
- Vegetable oils
- Vitamins and germinated grass
Instruction
1. Refuse a habit to feed the British cat from hands and in not put time. Once and for all enter the strict schedule of feeding which all inhabitants of your house will have to observe. At this stage most it is difficult - to convince the most compassionate members of household that the optimum diet for a cat consists in thrice acceptance of food, but not of an opportunity at any time to receive a tidbit.
2. Try to construct a daily routine so that feeding of an animal and your acceptance of food took place approximately in at one time, - it will provide the most comfortable situation and for the animal deprived of temptation and for you: you have an opportunity to quietly taste food, without being distracted by a pleading look of British.
3. Pay special attention to drawing up the balanced diet. That correctly to feed the British cat, it is necessary to know that from total number of food which she will receive in a day, it water has to make 70%, 15% are proteinaceous elements, 12% have to fall on fat, and on carbohydrates and mineral substances - on 2 and 1% respectively. Being guided by these figures, you enter into a diet meat products, fish, to an offal, vegetable oils, oat-flakes. This step demands from you special attentiveness as the surplus or a lack of any of the listed elements can lead to developing of a disease. So, overconsumption of fish (more than 10-15% of a daily diet) leads to formation of an urolithic disease. It is possible to feed the British cat with various dairy products, - such as cottage cheese of small fat content, sour cream, fermented baked milk.
4. Take for the rule to watch a condition of food. It should not be excessively hot or cold. It is optimum to feed the British cat with food which keeps room temperature. After end of a meal take away the remains and throw out them: do not mix new food from old at all!
5. Take care of additional nutritious elements and buy a special grass that the British cat could chew it in pet-shop. The alternative option - vitamins - can take place, however will not be so effective.
6. Correctly to feed the British cat, you remember that representatives of this breed feel the sharp need for vitamins which belong to group B. Measurement of weight of the pet allows to define their necessary quantity. Avoid introduction to a diet of the food which is excessively saturated with mineral salts. One more proportion which observance has to become for you an indestructible precept - a ratio of calcium and phosphorus: the cat has to receive them equal quantity.
7. Be defined whether you will feed a cat with ready-made feeds. If yes, that it is necessary to accustom her to alternation of the home-made cooked food and a dry feed at once. However it is impossible to feed the British cat with exclusively ready food from pet-shop at all! Find an opportunity to be engaged independently in formation of a meal of your pet, and he will please you with the health many years.