The first dry feeds for pets appeared in 1860. Since the end of the last century when owners of dogs and cats fully estimated convenience of their use, they became an obligatory component of a diet of pets. Producers promise to provide for rather little money your favourites with the good and balanced nutrition containing all necessary for their health. But here as far as this is true?
What is a part of dry cat food and dogsBeef blood, vegetables and cereals were a part of the very first "dog biscuits". And though from the moment of their emergence in the market passed more than 150 years, the main ingredients remain the same – cheap vegetables, grain and an offal. And this recipe of a dry feed for pets actually least of all considers their desires, and more – desires of producers and owners of animals.
The choice of components is explained by availability and a large number of waste of meat production, flour-grinding and zernoobrabatyvayushchy industry, the gone vegetables. They to a lesser extent, than natural meat, are suitable for feeding of dogs and cats, but the forage manufacturing techniques from them are rather simple, they are stored long and their production does not demand big material inputs.
Often owners forget that not all that it is useful for them, in the same degree is useful also for their pets. If to consider food preferences on which digestive system of cats and dogs is calculated the meat component in them has to occupy not less than 80% of total amount. Fish, vegetable fats, dairy products, grain and vegetables enter a natural diet only as additives, and their quantity should not exceed 20%. Therefore the prevailing quantity grain and vegetables as a part of a dry feed for animals at all not plus.
In a qualitative forage vegetables and fruit have to be present at bigger quantity, than grain.
Natural meat which has to be in the menu of a cat or dog does not compensate a dry feed, the meat which is absent in it is replaced, most often, by waste of the food industry, cheap fats and bone meal.
How to choose a forage with the maximum content of meatOn packing the list of ingredients is always given in decreasing order of their weight, producers do not specify percentage. Learn to define correctly quantity of a meat component in a stern taking into account that producers can divide the same type of ingredient into components and list them several times.
Do not buy forages as a part of which "meat", "animal" or "bird" is specified just. Grain in a stern have to be presented by high-quality whole grain.
So, for example, beef meat, an offal and beef flour – meat ingredients. White and brown rice, shredded rice grain, rice bran, gluten of rice and rice flour is grain ingredient. The producer on the first place will put beef meat from which after evaporation there will be the tenth part, beef flour, and then will include products – rice derivatives. If to put them as one meat and grain ingredient, to turn out that there is almost no meat in such forage.