People need to eat, cats need to eat cat food. A reasonable diet is delicious for people and cats, and it is also an indispensable way for health sources. There are many cat foods on the market now, and the prices and quality are different. We need to choose the right cat food to feed our cats, so it is necessary to choose high-quality cat food.
1. Cat food generally produced in the United States has the license mark of the American Association of Feed Management Officials (AAFCO) to prove that cat food is carried out and passed animal feeding tests to prove that the ingredients can provide 100% complete and balanced nutrition.
2. The American Association of Feed Management Officials (AAFCO) has general guidance on the ingredients listed on packaging bags of cat food manufacturers.
How to choose high-quality pet cat food? Here are four methods to choose. Ai Nibao tells you very much that the source of pet food has always been different. The most terrifying thing is the so-called 4D. 4D is: DIED (dead), DISEASED (sick), DYING (dying), DISABLED (incomplete). This means that pet food uses to collect dead, sick, dying and incomplete animals (think about how many humanely destroyed animals are corpses every day), and then "make" the so-called MEATMEAL meat meal, BONEMEAL meat and bone meal, ANIMALFAT animal fat and other pet foods.
4. Be careful to see the ingredients on the packaging bag. Some manufacturers will list different parts of the same ingredients separately, reduce the proportion, and put meat at the front, which will look a little more advanced. For example: if you list the roundcorn and corngluten separately (they are all similar things), you can put chicken first and use tricks to confuse people's views on it.
5. If you look closely at the cereal varieties contained in the cat food ingredients list, rice is the easiest grain to digest. If the proportion of corn in the ingredients is too large, please consider other brands, why? Corn is a good cereal, but the elbow acid it contains is too low and it must be added. Moreover, corn contains a lot of sugar, which is not very good for cats, and it is not easy to digest if it contains too much.
6. If you want to change the brand of cat food for your cat, don't over-convert it in a hurry. First mix one-third of the new cat's volume and two-thirds of the old cat's food, and then gradually increase the proportion of new cat's volume every day, and slowly transition until you completely replace the old cat's volume. This is done for the sake of the cat's stomach and intestines, otherwise switching to new cat food at one time may cause gastrointestinal discomfort (the cat's stomach and intestines are adapted to the old cat food).
7. To observe the cat's reaction to dry food, you can feed it for 6 to 8 weeks, and then make a judgment based on the growth of hair, nails, weight,/urination and overall health to determine that cat food is suitable for cats. If the cat's fur is dull, dry, itchy, and hair loss after feeding new cat food, it may be that the cat is allergic to the ingredients of this cat food, or the nutritional ingredients are inappropriate for the cat.
8. Different cat food feeding portions are different. Although the recommended portions are listed on the packaging, each cat has different nutritional intake, so cat slaves must carefully adjust a suitable portion to feed the cat. This depends on observing the cat's weight and overall health to make a judgment.
9. During the conversion of cat food, please pay attention to the cat's excrement. The feces should be solid but not hard, and there should be no pungent smell. Usually, cats' excrement will smell bad when they start to convert cat food. This is because the digestive system cannot adapt to the new cat food for the time being, and it will return to normal in the short term, but if the situation continues, it may be that this cat food is not suitable for cats.