The balanced food affects the general health of pets, them health is in direct dependence on a diet. You wish that your kitties were playful and cheerful, you feed them correctly.
Useful products for cats
Duration and quality of life of an animal depends on healthy nutrition. Cats belong to the class of mammals, group predatory, that is meat eaters. Their menu for 90% has to consist of crude animal products: − meat;
− fishes; − birds;
− milk; − eggs.
The diet of domestic "predators" by all means has to include protein. Along with meat give them sea low-fat fish not more often than two times a week. An indispensable condition – fish has to be after freezing. Make an exception for a cod and a pollock, it is better to refuse this product in general as infection with worms is possible. The small small fish is fed in the raw entirely, stones of a cat are easily cracked. It is not necessary to give them boiled fish, there is a probability to choke with stones, besides in it there are no useful substances.
What problems happen at cats at a fish diet
It is impossible to feed a cat with a fresh lake or river small fish, in it there can be worms that is harmful to them. Thus, the fresh production brought from fishing to cats is not fed. Fish from a pond or the river can be given, previously having frozen within three days. It is not necessary to give fish daily as her continuous consumption leads to damage of kidneys. The surplus of phosphorus, magnesium and low content of calcium in seafood leads to an imbalance of minerals in an organism and promotes emergence of stones in kidneys. Also at animals for 100% to a fish diet the lack of vitamin K and, as a result, the lowered blood clotting is noted. At food seafood pets become low-active. Long fish food can provoke: − an allergy, fish is an allergenic product; − avitaminosis; − invasive diseases. The tiaminaz enzyme which is contained in crude fish destroys B1 vitamin ("Thiamine") in a cat's organism. It can lead to spasms and neuralgic problems. Constant feeding by fish results in deficiency of vitamin E that causes the disease state called pannikulit. At cats the appetite vanishes, the sensitivity to touches increases. Veterinarians trace disturbing dependence between a fish diet and emergence of a gipertireoz at animals. The cats eating seafood often suffer from hyperfunction of a thyroid gland. To feed or not to feed the favourites with fish, to solve to you. But if you want to see pets healthy and cheerful, fish has to become delicacy, but not constant food product.