When you first start raising cats, you may have no idea, search for cats everywhere on the Internet, ask the small partners who have raised cats for many years, at this time it is inevitable to be mixed with soft text and advertisements, someone will tell you, raising cats, this must buy that must also buy.
You love cats, you can't tell the good from the bad, you can only let it go, and then buy everything back.
But in fact, in addition to food and cat litter, many things are just chicken ribs. Some things are not only chicken ribs, but even have certain hidden dangers, so today we will take a look at what things are marketed to make people mistakenly think that cats must be entered, but in fact, they are useless.
Divided into the first part and the next part, this one mainly talks about food, and the next article mainly talks about supplies.
As the saying goes, "disease comes from the mouth", cats are the same, into the mouth of the things for many years affect the health of cats, in addition to high-quality meat, freeze-dried, canned and cat food, many of the things with high sales are actually unnecessary for cats to eat, such as nutritional cream, hair cream, lecithin or hair powder.
<h1>1. Nutritional ointment</h1>
This is the biggest IQ tax in the cat pen.
First of all, this name is quite intimidating, "nutritional cream", it sounds very nutritious, we are afraid of cat malnutrition, so buy and buy, as if nutritional cream in hand, a nutritionally balanced kitten has.
But wait, have you ever wondered what the nutrition a cat needs? What nutrients are in the cream?
Regarding the nutrition that cats need, I have also mentioned in my previous article (click to view).
So what's in the cream?
I went to Taobao to search for several high-selling nutritional pastes, you can also look at the source of raw materials and nutrients written behind the nutritional paste at home (if you don't write, you can directly throw it away), we will find that the raw materials of these nutritional creams are nothing more than: maltosin, glucose, fish oil, cod liver oil, vegetable oil. And their nutritional content is nothing more than: vitamin abcd and various trace elements.
That is to say, most of the nutritional creams are supplemented with only vitamins and trace elements, and we don't know how much the cat needs for these substances, but then there is a demand, it is only a small amount of demand.
We reviewed again that the nutrients that cats need most are water, protein, fat, vitamins and trace elements, and these nutrients are not lacking in most meats, eggs, high-quality canned food and cat food.
Not to mention that nutritional ointment may also have a false label problem, zero supervision of domestic pet food, what its raw materials will add, we do not know, whether it can be absorbed by cats, it is also unknown.
All kinds of unknowns, resulting in us not knowing whether the cat eats this nutritionally nutritious cream, whether there will be allergies, soft stools and even kidney burden.
The most important thing is that nutritional cream is not cheap, I see the highest sales of a dog nutrition cream, 120g to 85 yuan, a pound to more than 300 yuan, with these money, why not buy some better meat for cats, high-quality canned and cat food.
Nutritional ointment so, what nutritional powder nutritional tablets are also similar to this reason, no nutrition, no need.
<h1>Second, the hair cream. </h1>
Regarding the cat spitting hair ball, I also mentioned in the previous article (click to view) that the hair licked by the cat is not as terrible as imagined, on the contrary, it also plays the role of fiber fixation, and most hair can be excreted through feces.
Some cats spit hairballs, which are more pointed to their unhealthy intestines - if the cat consumes too much that does not conform to their natural diet, such as starch, plant fiber, the cat's intestines will be difficult to break down these carbohydrates, which will produce a large number of inappropriate bacteria.
In the long run, abnormal flora develops and grows in the intestine, which will cause the cat's intestinal peristalsis speed and frequency of defecation to become abnormal.
At this time, the cat hair has not yet had time to participate in the digestion of the stomach, it is stuck in the stomach, forming a hair ball, and when the cat feels uncomfortable in the stomach, it will spit out the hair ball.
Therefore, the culprit of the cat's spitting ball is not hair, but intestinal problems caused by inferior food. Cats with a normal bowel do not have hairball obstruction.
To emphasize a premise, if you want the cat not to spit hairballs, give priority to the conditioning of the stomach and intestines, even if the hair cream can really "melt the hair", but the symptoms are not cured, the stomach is not good, no matter how to "turn the hair" is not helpful.
If your cat has a healthy stomach, there is no need for the so-called "hair", eat more good food, and make the cat's intestines healthier.
Hair cream itself is just a marketing term.
So what is the principle of hair cream?
The wool cream is a mixture of mineral oils, petroleum jelly, and fibers. This is a synthetic product.
The principle of the cream is to use mineral oils to combine the oil and water that link the hair in the hair balls, thereby softening the balls and promoting their expulsion from the body.
That is to say, if you buy a hair cream with mineral grease, then when the cat spits out the hairball, it can indeed be fed appropriately.
But I see that there are few mineral oils in the high-selling hair cream, and more are some plant extracts, vegetable oils, etc., not to mention whether these have the effect of softening the hair mass, this plant carbohydrate itself is the culprit that causes the cat to spit hairballs.
A certain sales volume is composed of raw materials for wool paste
In fact, compared to these uneven commercial products, it is better to feed natural and easy to use hair cream - egg yolk.
Egg yolks contain natural choline and lecithin, which can help cats improve the muscle contraction of the stomach and intestines, thereby increasing intestinal peristalsis, while lecithin has the same emulsifying effect as mineral oils, softening the hairballs and promoting their excretion with feces.
Best of all, egg yolks are much cheaper than messy hair balm.
<h1>3. Pet lecithin hair powder. </h1>
Many shovelers may find that their cat hair is a little rough, or even a little skin problem, and then can't wait to buy some pet-specific lecithin and hair powder.
This involves two questions, why do cats have rough hair? Can lecithin and hair powder really make your cat hair softer?
First, let's talk about what affects the growth of hairy cats.
Quite simply, one is water and one is grease. This is the same principle in humans, water and fat intake is not enough, our hair is just as frizzy.
The same is true for cats, especially many cats that have long supported dry cat food, and their water intake is far from enough, which is one of the biggest reasons why their hair is not smooth enough. I'm ashamed to say that since my family was full of wet grains (canned staple foods and meat), the hair was as smooth as if it had been baked with oil.
Fat, mainly refers to animal fats, including key fatty acids omega3, key fatty acids omega6 and natural lecithin and so on.
The key fatty acid omega3 can be supplemented by eating a small amount of marine fish or fish oil, the key fatty acid omega6 is found in most meats, and natural lecithin can be eaten eggs.
That said, if your cat has rough hair, consider switching to wet food, or supplementing with fish oil or eating meat and eggs.
What about pet-specific lecithin and hair powder?
First talk about lecithin, lecithin is indeed a good thing, it can decompose fat in the body, thereby promoting hair growth and health, this stuff is actually widely present in egg yolks, milk, animal hearts, livers, etc., more intake of meat and eggs, there will be no shortage.
If you want to supplement specialized lecithin separately, you need to extract lecithin from these raw materials, so most of the lecithin seen on the market is an extract and is used as a food additive.
Pet-specific lecithin and hair powder, if it is really extracted from egg high-quality meat, can also be, but its manufacturers in order to reduce costs, more use of soybean lecithin, that is, plant lecithin.
Let's not say that cats as carnivores, not suitable for plant food, the key is that soy lecithin has always belonged to inferior industrial scraps, is used to add to burgers, fries, ice cream and other human unhealthy food, this thing as a cat health care products to use, is it really good?
I don't know if the pet's money is too easy to earn, what things as long as the name of the pet, can raise the price, but also because the name of the pet, you can be exempt from supervision, in the raw materials lazy.
Even as long as you spend money on marketing, can be blown into incense.
I have always felt that the money for raising cats should be spent on the blade, the most important thing for cats is food, so it is a priority to prepare some good food for cats, such as meat, high-quality staple foods freeze-dried and canned staple foods and high-quality cat food, there is extra money, and then buy some relatively good, comforting snacks for cats, and do not want those useless nutritional creams, hair creams, lecithin to buy flying, but not willing to buy a better staple food, this is the end of the upside down.
Today I will talk about this, no one's money is scraped, there is no need to pay IQ tax to these manufacturers. Above, I am a family with ten cats in the noisy, welcome to pay attention ~