Hello everyone, I am a dream is a pig, today for you to bring a cat star people staple food recommendation.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" > preface</h1>
As is customary, let's dry the cat first.
This short blue cat is adopted from one of our Changsha duty friends group, and has many years of dog breeding experience before raising cats, so it is still relatively fast to get started.
But at first this cat came to my house in a hurry, I did not have any preparations above, and finally as long as I temporarily bought a bag of cat food in the pet store downstairs, probably because the recipe and raw materials were not good, in short, the cat Kitty (its original name was Sherlock, but I thought it was too foreign, decided to change a more grounded name) After eating, the pull of the poop let me know for the first time that cat actually smells so bad.
After successively tried several different brands of cat food, fortunately, cat Kitty is a foodie, the comer does not refuse, those who are relatively cheap can also eat with relish, for expensive, it did not show particular excitement, which made me really a little embarrassed, in the end is poor to raise well is good to be rich?
However, I did find that when feeding cat food at different prices, there will still be obvious differences in the coat color and poop situation of cats, and it seems that the problem of cat food is still very knowledgeable.
So, how can you choose a more suitable cat food for cat people? In order to judge cat food, I have successively studied and searched for a lot of relevant information, and finally have a certain understanding of cat food.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" what are the differences between > brand cat food and cheap cat food? </h1>
First of all, we need to clearly know that cats are carnivores, and are very pure carnivores, the most abundant nutrients in meat are protein, so cats have very high requirements for protein content in food, and cats will have a great burden on the kidneys after eating too much starch and carbohydrates, which will affect the health of cats.
After understanding this, let's take a specific look at the nutritional structure that a good cat food should have.
This is the nutritional structure of several cat food excerpts, we can see that its main nutritional component is crude protein, for adult cats, the crude protein content can not be less than 25%, and the crude protein content of juvenile cats cannot be less than 28%. However, we need to distinguish between animal protein and plant protein, many plants are rich in protein, but cats will affect their health after consuming too much plant protein, and many cheap cat food will use plant protein to overcharge.
In addition to crude protein, the proportion of crude fat is also very high, fat is the main source of calories, and can provide cats with a lot of nutrients that they cannot synthesize on their own, but it is also necessary to note here that some cheap cat food will use vegetable oil to increase the fat content in its nutrient content.
The value of crude fiber, the lower the proportion of the overall nutritional structure, the better, not more than 9%, because the more crude fiber means the more plant components in the formula.
In addition, it is also necessary to pay attention to the content of coarse ash, which is mainly inorganic compounds, the source is the residue of organic matter after being oxidized at high temperature, and the content of crude ash cannot be too high, more than 10% is not up to standard.
From the nutrition facts list, we can roughly understand the nutritional ratio of a cat food, but many cheap cat food will be replaced by plant protein and vegetable oil in crude protein and crude fat, so it is also necessary to study the composition ratio of cat food.
Generally in the arrangement of raw materials, the first in line, the content is the highest, such as the first picture, the most content is duck, then lamb, venison, followed by peas, potatoes, sweet potatoes and other plant ingredients. In the second chart, the most abundant is chicken powder, followed by brown rice. In the third picture, the most abundant is chicken meal, beef bone meal, various fish, and then beans.
Note that in all cat food, the use of meat the most must be of better quality, followed by meat powder, and the more meat and meat powder content the better, if the beans, grain content is particularly large, remember to detour, if the raw materials are arranged, the first is grain, ten million detours.
In addition, it should also be noted that some cheap cat food will use a large number of suspicious animal by-products, so in the raw material table you will see a variety of chicken bone meal, duck bone meal, beef bone meal, it is almost impossible to say...
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" > pure meat is good for cats? </h1>
In fact, this is a topic that has been debated, is the compound formula of cat food healthier or eating pure meat more nutritious?
I would often stock up on a lot of chicken breast frozen in the refrigerator, and then cook it to feed the cat kittens, chicken contains about 25% protein, and contains vitamins A, B1, as well as amino acids, trace elements, theoretically, as a staple food of cats is OK.
However, it should be noted that a long period of single feeding chicken or other meat, after all, can not ensure the balance of nutrition, because a single meat as a staple food will appear key nutrient deficiencies, but also easy to cause excessive obesity of cats, and if you choose a more scientific ratio of cat food, cat food as the main food, with chicken breast and fish meat feeding, the cat should be healthier.
After recently studying several brands, to the cat Xiaomi bought back a bag of New Zealand Serengeti beef and mutton recipe cat food, the main purpose is actually relatively simple, cat Xiaomi eat chicken every day is estimated to be greasy, should like beef and mutton, right?
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" > today's recommendation: Serengeti cat food</h1>
Serengeti cat food origin New Zealand, in addition to beef and mutton recipe, there are salmon long tail cod, chicken turkey, duck chicken and other three different recipes, my cat Xiaomi is seriously not interested in salmon, and now often eat chicken, so the first choice is beef and lamb recipe.
As you can see from the packaging, this cat food has a staggering 80% animal protein content, plus vitamins and minerals, completely free of grains and wheat bran.
From the perspective of nutritional structure, the crude protein content of this cat food is not less than 35%, the crude fat content is not less than 15%, the crude fiber is not more than 4%, the moisture is not more than 10%, and the crude ash content is not more than 10%.
From the recipe list, the first is beef, followed by lamb, beef powder, lamb powder, beef liver, followed by plant ingredients peas, cassava, beer dried yeast, in addition to chicken fat, beef heart, tripe and fish meat, by the way, Kangaroo Meal is kangaroo powder?
Judging from this recipe table, the proportion of beef and lamb is very high, followed by beef powder and lamb powder, in addition to beef offal, well, beef offal is the beef offal that I particularly like to eat...
In the previous study of this and the brand of cat food, I saw that there is a relevant introduction, which uses beef and mutton are from fresh grass free range cattle and sheep, this is grass-fed beef and mutton, when I buy steak, I know that grass-fed beef is more lean and tender, lower fat content, more tough and chewy taste, with grass-fed beef and mutton made into cat food, will not be a little too luxurious, this most of the night looking at cat food, thinking of cattle and sheep on the grassland, why I began to drool???
Round granules of cat food, the color looks quite good, smell well, there is no obvious added attractant of the strange aroma, but there is a faint smell of roast meat, well, I began to think of the taste of beef and mutton again.
Put the cat food on the paper to press, there is no obvious oil stains, the surface of the cat food does not appear very greasy, need to pay attention to ah, some cheap cat food on the market added a lot of vegetable oil, pinched in the hand will appear oily.
Cat Kitty showed a strong desire to eat this cat food, and even forcibly snatched these few grains from the carpet twice when I took pictures...
Although the general view is that it is best to change the cat food in a step-by-step way, considering that this cat food is used to alternately feed with chicken, it is not gradual, ready to feed cat food for one day, and then feed chicken breast for another day.
Cat Kitty's interest in this cat food is indeed very large, the desire to eat is very strong, cat food poured into its food bowl, immediately came together.
Anyway, there's really no need to stuff all the cat's face into the rice bowl, right?
Every day, Kitty has a stinky face and no expression...
After feeding this cat food, I paid attention to its poop, compared to eating pure chicken breast, the poop is slightly more, in the large size will not have a strange sour smell, in fact, if the cat emits a sour odor when it is large, it means that the plant ingredients in the cat food it eats cannot be absorbed and fermented, at this time it needs to pay attention to adjusting the dietary ingredients.
< h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" > summary</h1>
We must be cautious when choosing cat food, buy cat food can not be cheap, we should pay more attention to its formula, nutritional components and additives, there are certain conditions to consider natural food, conditions do not allow to buy brand commodity food, the other is that you can match some homemade fresh food for the cat to eat together.
For some cheap cat food, be sure to polish the eyes, because cheap cat food, in the protein content is difficult to guarantee, and can not determine the source of meat, because cats are thorough carnivores, grains and other staple foods that humans think are actually unnecessary and indigestible for them, excessive intake will only increase the burden on their bodies.
Here personally or recommend that you can try the Serengeti cat food, nutritional composition and raw material formula are more reassuring, and my cat Xiaomi after a period of time, the coat color looks better than before.