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Cat Nutrition
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If you have not
provided cat health food properly, poor reproductive performance and nutritional
disorders occur. There is highly specific requirement of carbohydrates unlike the case with either protein or fat,
which are essential to meet the proper energy demands.
During provision
of feeding to cat, one should remember that the meat or meat based food product
is more palatable and cat health food than the cereal or cereal-based product.
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In cat nutrition,
it is to be remembered that they require protein comparatively in higher quantities than the dog or most of
the mammals. Protein should constitute at least 30 per cent of the
diet on a dry matter basis.
Lactating queens
require calcium as the cat health food. Avoid bulk feeding in cats, always and similarly;
avoid feeding of large amounts in cats before sleeping. The requirement of taurine
is more in cats and is essential for production of bile salts that help in better digestion.
Meat and fish are
excellent sources of good quality of protein for cats. Hygienically packed canned
food may be preferred from reputed firms. Cats are extremely sensitive to the
dietary deficiency of arginine content useful for muscular and nervous
integrity.
Similarly,
another specialty in cat health food is that the cats require more amounts of preformed
vitamin-A like retinyl palmitate and retinyl acetate. It is noteworthy to mention
that these are available in fish
liver oil and liver.
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Too much fiber leads
to diarrhea in cats. The natural feed of cat includes birds, cockroaches, lizards
etc. Fresh water should be always available in cattery.
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1. What are the signs of a healthy cat?
Cat needs to be alert and active. The animal should have normal
walking, etc. Activities that are routinely carried out by the cats like
drinking of milk, eating
of food, pawing, licking activities, food habits including defecation and urination
activities etc. need to be the routine ones.
The stool sample should not have the red tinged status
or
worms in it. The cat needs to respond when called, as usual.
These indicate that the cat is healthy apparently.
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2. How to find a sick
cat?
If your cat does not come near you at all in a day, you need to watch the cat so
closely for any signs of abnormality. The abnormality may be so
apparent like a pain provoking swelling on the body
or very pungent and bad odor from the body.
Some times, you may come across some indirect evidences of diseases
like staining at the posterior regions of the body by the loose
stools
passed by your cat. Signs of oral diseases or disorders need to be understood by
the cat
owners.
Frequent pawing at the mouth region and bleeding from mouth regions
indicate the chances for existence of oral
cavity related diseases. You need to check frequently
the signs like excessive yellow colored teeth, bad smell
from the mouth region, and severe redness
in the mouth.All these indicate about the
oral diseases in cats.
Just observe the walking pattern of the animal. If the animal has limping, then
the paw region may often has some problem and hence, needs to be examined closely,
for the presence of any lesion or excessive
redness or swelling or any foreign body.
If the cat behaves in an abnormal manner like biting
everything etc., then suspect for rabies etc. All these indicate that the cat is not in a
good condition and is sick.