How to feed a cat dry and wet food?

Correctly organize mixed feeding — the task is not easy, in everything event, if put as a goal get в as a result balanced ration. However duzhe many owners use dry і moist products в nutrition its cats, to E decided to share з you with their own advice, як correctly combine different typos fodder.

According to pick up canned foods і dry feed?

In order for the cat's nutrition to be balanced, it is necessary that the wet and dry food are equivalent in terms of nutrients and other nutrients. It is quite difficult to do this. For foods with a high content of meat, such as Acana and Orijen, you should choose canned food in which the content of meat ingredients will be approximately at the same level - 75%-85%. If you supplement dry food with a wet diet, which will consist mainly of grains and sources of vegetable protein, then your cat will lose all the benefits of biologically appropriate nutrition.

It is also necessary to pay attention to the content of fat, as well as the most important vitamins and minerals - it should be approximately the same. Of course, in this way you will be able to balance the diet only approximately, because the composition of each dry feed is a strictly calibrated balance of all ingredients, but you will still avoid sharp deviations in the direction of increasing or decreasing the necessary substances.

According to adjust amount portions?

One of the most common mistakes of owners who have chosen mixed food for their pet is disregard for the strict measurement of portion sizes. Some even simply add wet food to dry food - without taking into account the daily norm at all. Such feeding can only lead to obesity in your pet and associated diseases. Therefore, before feeding the cat with dry and wet food, you need to decide what proportion of the cat's daily diet you allocate to each of them. Ratios can be different: 50% by 50%, 75% by 25%, etc. - at your convenience.

Then you need to determine the daily rate of wet and dry food for your cat according to the table indicated on the label of each of them, and calculate exactly in grams how much you should give the pet per day of each diet. When calculating, you need to come out only with a fraction, because 100 g of dry food is not equal to 100 g of wet food, in the latter water occupies up to 80% of the volume, and its daily rate is much higher.

В one feeding or в different?

The question of whether it is possible to mix dry and wet food in the same bowl is one of the most discussed, and even experts often disagree. We are inclined to the fact that it is more appropriate to give dry and wet food in different feedings, and here is why.

Each dry ration contains up to 20 different ingredients, and when you add wet food, you mix them with another five to ten. Thus, a very diverse mixture is obtained, which the cat's stomach may simply not be able to cope with. In addition, in the composition of each full-rational product, all ingredients are matched to each other not only from the point of view of the content of nutrients, but also their combination with each other. Violating this balance is not advisable.

There is one more important consideration. If your cat has an upset stomach or vomits after eating, you'll have to guess who's to blame: dry food, wet food, or a combination of them? This is especially true for those owners who like to change cans often.

Well, in general, if you chose mixed feeding, then you need to be ready for any surprises, because the manufacturers are responsible for the balance and quality of both dry and wet feed, but only you are responsible for the result of their mixing.

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