The question of, as far as dry cat food is safe and useful, of course, disputable. Certainly, at the shortage of free time it is more convenient to owner to transfer the animal to food dry feed. However process of transition from habitual food to dry has to take place for your cat most comfortably.
It is required to you
- — dry feed;
- — bowl for a dry feed;
- — bowl for water.
Instruction
1. You transfer to a dry feed of your kitten not earlier than at the age of 2-3 months when it creates all teeth. The kitten has to be able to do to chew food well already by this time.
2. Pick up the correct dry feed suitable your pet. Choose premium forages or as extra. Upon purchase of a forage study packing, study the instruction. First of all pay attention to the recommended age of an animal. For example, for kittens the dry feeds do with soft small granules. Then pick up a forage for requirements and the state of health of your cat. There are forages, for example, for the castrated animals, with problems of urinogenital, digestive systems, for mobile or low-active cats.
3. Consider that transfer of a cat to a dry feed requires 10-15 days depending on the state of health and features of your pet. Constantly you watch on health of a cat, her behavior, the nature of a chair. At suspicion of a problem at once address the veterinarian.
4. Pour the first 2-3 days in a bowl with habitual food several granules of a dry feed. In case the animal refuses dry food, moisten granules in water, mix with the main forage.
5. Increase quantity of a dry feed every day. At the same time reduce a dose of food, habitual for a cat. You watch an amount of water in a bowl. Gradually dry feed completely will force out other food from a diet of a cat.
6. Fill 2-3 times a day a necessary dose of a dry feed in a clean bowl. Pay attention to the recommended forage consumption rate specified on packing and do not exceed it.
7. Provide to a cat continuous access to fresh clear drinking water, otherwise there can be organism dehydration. Consider what waters is required in 4-5 times more on volume, than dry granules. When the animal is completely transferred to a dry feed, usual food cannot be given already.