Having in the house of a cat and a dog, owners of pets sometimes feed up a dog cat food. As a rule, the dog forage is eaten quicker and at the most inappropriate moment comes to an end. The cat's forage is perceived by dogs always with great pleasure.
When in the house there live several animals, owners begin to feed them with identical food. Owners of little dogs prefer to buy portions of a cat's forage. Especially as flavoring addictions of favourites can be surprising: having tried out the product intended for cats, the canine barking friend will demand it for breakfast. But veterinarians urge deliberately and to show consideration for questions of formation of a diet of your pets.
Specifics of a forage for canine friends
The forage of different brands intended for cats differs in structure, but has a number of the general features which are cardinally distinguishing it from food for dogs.
The protein component is more significant as the need of a cat's organism for amino acids is higher (taurine sulfonic acid additive often follows that does not correspond to needs of a dog at all). The mass fraction of fats is more as in the course of a metabolism at cats (unlike dogs) arachidonic acid is not synthesized, and triglitseridovy acids are an additional power source for a cat.
If the dog constantly accepts a cat's forage, she has a risk to gain excess weight.
It is less than grain cereals and carbohydrates (their high content causes failures in work of digestion of cats), the dog diet assumes the bigger maintenance of energetically valuable carbohydrate component. It is enriched with group B vitamins (for dogs is developed a bit different scheme of vitaminization) participating in processes of power exchange, synthesis and splitting of the amino acids received with a protein.
Whether to feed a dog with a cat's forage?
Both graceful cats, and devoted dogs live near the person long ago and seem in many respects very similar. But their way of life and physiological processes have essential differences.
Cat food always has the increased fat content and nutritiousness therefore dogs and love it.
The comfortable diet of animals differs: to dogs for optimum health of rather two times food, and the cat has to eat more often, but gradually in connection with high content in glucose blood, its food more kaloriyn. Constant eating of energetically valuable cat's dishes can lead to dog obesity. Besides the high share of a proteinaceous component, increases risk of a ketonization of kidneys, can affect ears (threat of otitis), eyes (reddenings and discomfortable feelings), integuments (appearance of rash). And among the most frequent consumers of a cat's forage — dogs of the small sizes — allergic reactions various are possible. It is possible to feed a little a dog with cat food, but in exceptional cases. Thus, for constant feeding it is better to use a profile forage, adding freshly cooked dishes to the pet's diet. At the same time veterinarians note that only the regular and constant use of alien food can entail serious violations of health.