To feed a pet with a dry feed very conveniently. But the range of this product is so wide that it becomes difficult to choose a forage which corresponds to breed of an animal, to physiological features, a way of life, activity and at the same time does not do harm to an organism.
Advantages of a dry feed
The dry feed has a number of advantages. First of all, it is saving of time. Plus, at a stern there are all necessary vitamins and minerals, and the owner does not need to worry about entering additional additives into an animal diet. It is convenient to store also dry feed, and it is ideal for feeding of the pet during the travel.
But despite these advantages, many people nevertheless are incited against a dry feed. They believe that it harmful affects health of a cat or dog. But this belief is wrong and connected with the fact that in some countries the culture of feeding of animals is insufficiently developed by industrial sterns. The largest scientific institutes of Europe and America for many decades are engaged in development and improvement of dry feeds which surpass natural food in all characteristics. But it concerns only high-quality forages which cannot cost little.
How to choose a qualitative forage?
At the very beginning of a way of the choice of a suitable forage it is necessary to exclude cheap forages of economy class at once. The ingredients which are their part can be doubtful quality and contain meat of patients or the fallen animals. Besides, in such sterns the availability of hormones, antibiotics, pesticides is not excluded that does not promote health of an animal, and surely leads to diseases. The forage for an animal needs to be chosen as premium or a super-premium. But even upon purchase of high-class forages do not lose vigilance, and attentively study structure of a product. It has to be in details painted. It is important that on the first place in the list of components meat was specified. It means that in this forage it contains in enough. The maintenance of cereal products or vegetables should not exceed 50%. Besides, vitamins, minerals, special additives for work of intestines, joints, hearts are a part of a forage. Pay attention that in dry feeds as preservatives it is authorized to use sulfuric, hydrochloric, phosphoric, acetic acids. But salts of these acids are strictly forbidden. Also at a stern there should not be chemical preservatives, dyes, fragrances, sugar, cellulose, a shell of nuts.
How to understand whether the forage suits an animal?
When choosing a forage pay attention not only to its class and structure and also consider age of your pet how much it moves, it is sterilized or not whether has tendency to corpulence, whether there are problems with digestion. For each such case it is possible to pick up a qualitative forage. To please an animal, it is necessary to buy a forage taking into account his gastronomic preferences – with a bird, mutton or fish. Not from the first attempt it is possible to pick up a suitable forage. Therefore do not buy it much. There are cases when the animal does not eat a dry feed in general. But if the pet eats a forage with pleasure, and you notice that he excellently feels, looks good, its activity does not decrease, so the forage suits it. It is not necessary to try to diversify the menu of an animal, he does not suffer from monotony. Besides, practice shows that the less variety, the it is less than problems with health.