Eating "cat food" can cause malnutrition. Lovely kittens are carnivores like lions, so protein is the main food. According to calculation, compared with omnivores, cats 1 kg need 6 times of protein. Therefore, if cats are allowed to eat cat food with leftovers as before, protein will be obviously insufficient, and the cat's food should be mainly fish.

Let the cat develop the habit of not being picky about food. In Japan, when it comes to cats, you will definitely think of fish. This is mainly because the source of human protein is only fish. In fact, cats also like chicken breast and beef, so they should feed fish and meat in a balanced way. No matter which one you prefer, cats will become picky eaters, especially during the transition period from weaning to growing period, that is, from February to June after birth, so that cats can get used to various tastes and be easy to feed in the future. Others, such as liver, butter, egg yolk and steamed bread, also contain necessary nutrients, which can be mixed into staple food or fed to cats as snacks.

Even if it is clean after eating, the cat will grow up six months after birth, basically eating twice a day. For the sake of the cat's health, the time and place of eating should be stipulated, so that it can lead a regular life. A cat eats about as much as an adult's fist. Feed it half in the morning and half at night. Clean up the leftovers after eating. If you let it eat at any time, it will lead to obesity. In order to prevent diseases, don't forget to clean food containers every time.

2. Accustom kittens to various tastes

Feed the kitten three or four times a day. After two months of birth, you will eat as much as a big cat every day. But as a child, I can't eat as much as a big cat, so I feed it three or four times a day, and then slowly reduce it to two times when the kitten's appetite increases. The growing period is four to six months after the kitten is born. This is the period when it has strong bone carvings and muscles to lay the foundation for growing into a "human", so it is necessary to prepare rich food for it in protein. At this time, the kitten's appetite will surprise its owner, but as long as it wants to eat, let it eat. A kitten weighing 1 kg needs twice as many calories as an "adult cat". In order to grow up, this kind of heat is still necessary, and kittens will become stronger and stronger. It should be noted that you can feed it more, but be careful not to prove that it has diarrhea. When it comes to diarrhea, it should eat less and feed it something easy to digest like white fish.

Cats don't need seasoning. There is impeccable cat food on the market recently. This kind of cat food can be used when there is not enough time, but it is also a pleasure for the owner to feed the kitten that has just been born for four months. At this time, give it all kinds of food, the size should be easy to swallow. Basically, it is to mix some beef, liver, slightly boiled white fish, egg yolk and so on. If you want to feed a single food, you should pay attention to changing varieties frequently. If you don't pay attention, you will put salt and soy sauce, but you don't need to put salt.

3. Understand the characteristics of various cat foods.

Cat food is cheap and nutritious. Cat food is mainly meat and fish, so it is a bit expensive. If it is because of nutrition, it will definitely cost too much money. So make good use of cat food, because it is economical and convenient. Now speaking of cat food, it means cat food, which is very popular.

Dry food and cat food with balanced nutrition can be roughly divided into three types: dry food, canned food and semi-cooked food. Dry food is a kind of comprehensive nutritious food with essential nutrition. Adding some water to this food is basically enough. The tastes are beef, chicken and fish, each of which is crisp and chewy. This kind of food can not only exercise gums, but also is cheap and easy to store. So, if possible, try to give priority to this kind of food. Pay attention to replenish enough water when feeding.

Canned food is very popular because of its variety and delicious taste. Canned food made of high-grade raw materials such as shrimp and fish is more popular with cats than dry food because of its wide variety, easy selection and delicious taste. But it doesn't contain all nutrients, so it's best to mix it with dry food. Canned food is convenient for long-term storage, but it is easy to deteriorate after opening. Semi-cooked food is between dry food and canned food, suitable for old cats.

4. What cats can't eat

For the sake of the cat's health, please remember what you can't feed. Some superstitious foods that have not been scientifically verified do not need to be specially eaten by kittens. Sometimes the host will pay attention, but the child will feed, so the whole family should be careful.

Onions: Onions contain ingredients that destroy red blood cells in cats. Although it will not be fed separately, be careful not to mix it with meat.

Fish bones and chicken bones: Some people think that cats can chew bones well, but in fact cats don't chew food, but swallow it. Big bones are in danger of pricking the stomach, so it's better to remove them.

Dessert: Some owners think it is interesting and clever to feed the cat with cake, which seems irrelevant, but such a thing should be avoided because it will lead to tooth decay and weight gain. If these things are fed regularly, cats will get into the habit of eating sweets. Raw pork: Because pork has Toxoplasma gondii, it must be important.

Cuttlefish and Octopus: It is said that the waist joints of cuttlefish and octopus will become soft after eating them. The actual situation is not clear, but they cannot be eaten or used as regular food because they are not easy to digest.

Abalone and conch: It is said that eating these things will cause ear hair loss, but it does cause mild allergies and dermatitis, especially for people with thin ears.

Life practice of kittens

Cats should pay attention to the cultivation of correct habits and habits. For example, cat owners love cats and often let cats sleep with people, so that cats can be passed on to people when they are sick, such as bow disease and fungal infection. Another example is that cats are timid and like to climb high, thinking that high places are safe. The handicraft cabinets and dining tables at home are places that cats don't want to visit. Once the valuables go bad, the owner of the cat doesn't want to taste the food first. However, it is normal for cats to climb high. Cats can be forbidden to go where they shouldn't go through training and adjustment. It can be seen that even if cats are pets, some basic training should be carried out so that cats can integrate into the family as soon as possible without becoming a burden to the family. This includes "coming" training, standing, lying down and tumbling, jumping and drilling circles, holding things, grinding claws, drilling cat holes and so on.

The rules of eating and playing.

Many owners often boast that our cat is very smart and can stand up straight to pick up something to eat. It is also said that people will sit in chairs when eating and so on. This is not a good sign. Before long, the owner will begin to feel distressed, because kittens always want something to eat instead of their own cat food, and they will become more and more picky, even ignoring the full house of guests, like a wild cat who has never been disciplined, jumping on the table to find something they like to eat, which makes the owner very embarrassed. Therefore, cats should be taught to eat regularly, regularly and quantitatively from an early age. Never give it human food. Cats must eat food specially designed and made for cats. Human food is not completely suitable for its nutrition and growth. The three-week-old kitten played almost all the time when she was awake five months ago. This is also the cutest and most interesting time for them, whether playing with them or just watching them play. After five months, its gameplay will be reduced, but I still want to play it often. Children's toys, such as Lego games, may not be suitable for it. Some are too small, some have sharp edges, some may be chewed up, and it will be very troublesome to swallow them carelessly.

Defecation training

Cats stink when defecating, and wild cats often cover them with soil after defecating. Some cat owners choose sand or cat litter, which is better than sand in cleaning and preventing parasites. Cats like to be clean. If they are trained from an early age, they will form a good habit of defecating somewhere.

Cats need to be persuaded to change their food.

What kind of food does a cat need? Many "mother cats" like to feed their cats with home-cooked meals. Don't you know that too much fat in domestic fish can easily lead to inflammation and pain of cat fat, while too much vitamin A in domestic chicken liver can easily lead to arthritis in cats? Therefore, in order to make cats grow up healthily, it is very important to guide cats to switch to professional cat food.

It takes a while for pets to switch from one food to another. Pet experts suggest that a small amount of cat food can be mixed with existing food at first, and then gradually increase the weight of cat food and reduce the weight of the original food. After 3-7 days, cats can fully adapt to professional cat food. Or dry cat food can be slightly moistened with warm water to make it soft and delicious, giving off the fragrance of fish and meat, which will attract cats more. You can also mix canned cat food and dry cat food evenly, which is also one of the effective cat food replacement skills. /kloc-kittens under 0/year old should choose small cat food. For 4-9 weeks old kittens, you can feed them with one part of warm water and three parts of dry food. For 10- 12 weeks old kittens, their teeth have developed, so you can reduce the amount of water you drink accordingly. In addition, multi-flavor flavoring agents also help cats adapt to cat food as soon as possible. In view of the different eating habits of cats, I suggest you change several flavors of cat food for your cats to guide your cats to change their eating habits smoothly.

Correct the cat's nighttime behavior

Cats have the habit of lying down during the day and going out at night. They are not very active during the day, but they are very active at night. If it is allowed to wander around at night, it may get injured or dirty in the process of catching rats, mating and fighting, which is not good for health and will also affect the hygiene of the room. In addition, cats are often wild after night swimming, which is difficult to raise and manage. If they bring back infectious diseases, they may also damage the health of their owners.

Therefore, domestic cats should not be allowed to swim at night, and correcting cats' nighttime behavior must start with kittens. You can domesticate it in a cage first, let it out during the day, let the cat move indoors, forbid it to go out, and then catch it back at night. Over time, it will become a habit. Even if the cage is removed, I will not go out at night.

Nutritional requirements and feeding of young cats

In the first few weeks of life, kittens rely entirely on breast milk and don't need extra food. During this period, the ideal growth rate should be100g per week. However, due to the influence of nutrition, breed and female cat weight, there are great differences among different individuals. Sometimes the supply of breast milk is insufficient, so it is necessary to provide special milk substitutes, which are available 24 hours a day. Like a puppy, it not only helps to feed, but also helps to urinate.

From the age of 3-4 weeks, young cats began to become interested in the food of female cats. Give the kitten some finely divided soft food or dry food soaked in milk or water. The food can be for the mother cat or specially made for the kitten. Once a kitten begins to eat solid food, it also begins the weaning process. Kittens gradually eat more and more solid food and are completely weaned at 7-8 weeks old.

Because the physiological function of kittens is still not perfect, it is recommended to supply high-energy food and feed it many times. Unlike small dogs, kittens don't like to eat too much and should eat freely. Young cats weigh 600-1000g at weaning, and male cats are significantly heavier than female cats. This trend will be maintained for life. The peak energy requirement (840 kJ/kg body weight) is about 10 week old, and then it gradually decreases. However, due to the rapid growth, the demand in the first six months is still relatively high.

The food for young cats is not only high in energy, but also should consider improving some nutrients. For example, the diet of young cats contains more protein than that of adult cats (about 10%). The contents of calcium and phosphorus should be strictly kept at an appropriate level. Too high or insufficient will lead to abnormal bone development. It should also be emphasized that adding calcium additives to a balanced diet, just like feeding an unbalanced diet, will cause many problems. The effect of taurine on reproduction, growth and development has been proved, and this aminoethyl sulfonic acid should be added to the food of growing cats.

At the age of 6 months, the weight of most kittens has reached 75% of the maximum weight; After that, the weight gain was not caused by bone development. So kittens after 6 months are suitable for feeding adult cats. Adult male cats are significantly heavier than female cats and have a longer development time. Because both male and female cats are still growing slowly between 6- 12 months old, free feeding will last for a period of time, and their development will reach a stable state when they are one year old. Although many people feed many times throughout the day, they can reduce the feeding times after 6 months.

Cat epilepsy and epilepsy

I. General recommendations:

It can't be ignored, because cats are likely to suffocate during seizures, and epilepsy often indicates more serious potential diseases.

Second, the causes of epilepsy in cats:

1, infection (including parasites, bacteria and viruses)

2. Tumor

3. Poisoning

If there is no other reason or inducement, we think it is simple epilepsy.

Third, the diagnosis:

You can help the veterinarian to make a definite diagnosis by carefully observing the cat's performance during the attack, but what really matters is all kinds of laboratory tests, such as comprehensive surgery and nervous system tests, as well as a series of complicated blood tests. On this basis, it may be necessary to do spinal fluid examination and various angiography (such as CT, which can diagnose tumors). The whole diagnosis and treatment process requires patience and time, and more importantly, the care of the owner.

Fourth, treatment:

A complete cure depends on finding out the real cause and eliminating it effectively, but sometimes the diagnosis is quite time-consuming and it is often difficult to find out the real cause. In this case, it is unwise to let your cat undergo various tests, so most of them choose the treatment of epilepsy itself.

Phenobarbital and diazepam are commonly used drugs, but proper dosage is very important, otherwise it will cause liver damage, which requires you to carefully observe and determine the minimum dosage that can inhibit epilepsy. Sometimes potassium bromide can also be used, especially if the cat has liver disease or phenobarbital treatment is ineffective.

Others think that the lack of taurine can lead to epilepsy, which has not been confirmed by scientific experiments, but it is certain that a cat suffering from epilepsy should have a balanced diet and sufficient taurine.

In many cases, your veterinarian may have never heard of this disease because it is really rare in cats (dogs are more common). At this time, it is necessary to go to some teaching hospitals for more testing and treatment.

Verb (short for verb) The host's responsibility:

1. See a veterinarian: If the cat has more than two seizures in 24 hours, you should seek medical advice promptly.

2. Understand the general knowledge of epilepsy

3. Understand the veterinarian's treatment of your cat: generally, a blood test is needed, and the prescription should also contain phenobarbital. If you think he doesn't seem to understand the disease, you'd better change doctors.

4. Do what you can: It is a good choice to choose drug control in the case of huge cost and slim hope. Some cats use phenobarbital to completely control their illness for more than 5 years.

5. Perseverance: In some cases, your cat may need to take medicine for a long time. If it needs to take medicine regularly, you should put it on your schedule. Even if you have to leave your cat for a long time, you should make arrangements.

Small problems in the daily management of raising cats

In addition to bathing and grooming, there are several aspects of daily management of cats that cannot be ignored.

The first is the claw cutting. Cats usually cut their forelimb claws every 1 2 weeks, but it is necessary to cut their hind limbs every 3-4 weeks. When cutting, pick up the cat from behind and put it on the leg, and cut the transparent part of the nail from 1 horizontally to 2㎜. Be careful not to cut too much, which will cause pain and disgust to cats.

There are also cat ears, which should be cleaned at least 1 2 times a month, usually after bathing. You can apply a little medicinal olive oil, flowing paraffin oil or baby oil.

Cats' teeth must also be paid attention to. If cats eat soft food for a long time, they will have dental calculus for half a year. After 3 years, the teeth turn brown, and it is best to take stones 1 time every year.

And eyes and nose. Some breeds, such as Persian cats, have flat noses, curved nasolacrimal ducts, tears are not easy to flow out, and gums are easy to form. Moreover, tears and nasal discharge can easily block the nose, causing difficulty in breathing. Therefore, it is often necessary to wash the eyes with absorbent cotton dipped in 2% boric acid water, and the dirt on the nose can be softened and washed off with boric acid water.

Finally, observe the cat's tail and chin. Male cats have secretory glands at the root of their tails, and their tails will be dirty. In addition, young male cats often have some black adhesive on their chins. These places should also pay attention to cleanliness. It's best to soak the tail in detergent for a while, then brush it with a toothbrush and rinse it with water. The chin can be scrubbed with detergent or wiped with alcohol.

It is learned to bathe a cat.

Kittens are clean animals. Bathing and grooming are not only for beauty and cleanliness, but also for preventing skin diseases and ectoparasites and promoting blood circulation and metabolism. At the same time, kittens are clean and healthy, which is also conducive to keeping the indoor environment clean. Therefore, it is very important to bathe and comb the kitten.

Some appliances should be prepared for bathing the kitten, including: bathtub, bath towel, bath lotion (which is not irritating to the cat's skin), comb (metal, wood or plastic, preferably one with dense teeth and one with thin teeth), brush, absorbent cotton stick, tweezers, eye ointment, hair dryer, etc. The amount of bath water should not drown the kitten. The optimum water temperature is 30-35℃. You can test the water temperature by hand and feel mild. After making these preparations, slowly put the kitten into the bathtub and rub it in the order of head, back neck, back tail, abdomen and limbs. Move quickly and finish as soon as possible. After washing with water, immediately use a dry towel to absorb the water from the kitten. If it is a long-haired cat, it is not suitable to wipe it with a bath towel. It's best to comb it with a hair dryer and blow dry it.

The problem that should be paid attention to in bathing is that kittens are not suitable for bathing when they are unwell or sick. Don't take a bath too often, usually 2-3 times a month. Because the oil on the cat's skin has a certain protective effect on the skin and hair, if you bathe too often, you will lose a lot of oil, which will easily make the cat's hair brittle and reduce the elasticity of the skin, otherwise it may become an inducing factor of skin inflammation. When taking a bath, keep warm indoors, especially in winter, to prevent kittens from catching cold and causing colds. Before taking a bath, let the cat do light activities and let the cat excrete feces and urine.

Cats sharpen their claws for a reason.

Grinding claws is a cat's habit, and it is impossible to stop it. For a kitten, claws are its most powerful weapon, so it is necessary to grind off the aging keratin from time to time to make it extremely sharp.

In addition, grinding claws is also to show their strength and increase the smell. Cats have smelly glands in their front feet, so they grind their claws to make their feet smell.

Nevertheless, if you let it grind its claws casually, sofas, curtains, chairs, carpets, wooden floors, walls and so on. It will become shabby and terrible at home. Moreover, once the cat determines the position of grinding its claws, it will go there again and again to grind its claws, which will make the loss even greater.

Teaching cats to sharpen their claws is the hardest thing. So this kind of education should start as soon as possible before the furniture is destroyed.

Take it to the special grinding claw many times.

First, prepare a special claw grinding tool. Although there are many kinds of products on the market, I made them myself. Just wrap a piece of cloth around the board. If possible, prepare more pieces and put them where cats like to go. If a cat starts grinding its paws on furniture, it should immediately say "no" and take it to a place with special boards. The owner can grab its front foot and sharpen its claws. Cats may be noisy at first, but after a few times, they will patiently sharpen their claws. You should be praised for being very skilled in grinding claws, so that cats will naturally remember the location of grinding claws.

How to use deodorant

Sometimes you can't wait, you can spray deodorant where you don't want it to sharpen its claws, or sprinkle vinegar that cats hate. But the effect is temporary, once the smell disappears, the effect will be gone, so it can be said that patient education is still the most important.

Eight misunderstandings about cats by owners

Sounds like a lawsuit, but it's not. Compared with dogs, cats entered human life later, and we know less about this species. Moreover, cats are so maverick that we inevitably have some misunderstandings about their lifestyle or personality hobbies. Since food is the most important thing for the people, let's start with eating.

Enjoy the lunch box.

Good friends should share weal and woe, and the status of pets in people's hearts is gradually rising. However, the overindulgence or ignorance of the cat's diet structure leads many people to think that they can give the cat whatever they can eat, so that they can be called good owners. But are cats really suitable for our meals? The answer is no, it is not good for humans to feed cats directly or take some as snacks, which will cause two problems for cats.

1. Malnutrition

The nutrition that cats need is different from that of humans. They need to use protein to convert energy, while humans use fat to convert energy. Therefore, cats need much higher protein than people, and the amount of vitamins and minerals is different from people. Cats eating human food for a long time will cause malnutrition, and cats with unbalanced nutrition are not healthy cats!

2. Dyspepsia

Old people like to stew bone soup to supplement calcium for their families, and some parents follow suit and use bones to supplement calcium for cats. No matter what animal bones are, don't give them to cats. This will not only fail to supplement calcium by grinding teeth, but will hurt the cat's stomach and cause indigestion.

Milk landscape

Milk, milk is not water. It sounds crazy, but it is really an important point (especially for kittens). Kittens may not be fed by their mothers for various reasons, which requires surrogate mothers to be careful in the choice of milk. For us, the best thing to buy is milk, but strictly speaking, milk is not suitable for cats.

The lactose content in milk is much higher than that in cat's milk. Cat's stomach often has diarrhea because it can't absorb milk, which is why cats drink milk and have diarrhea. So our concept of milk is-don't feed milk to cats as water.

Snacks cannonball

The children are curious. I remember when I was in primary school, a classmate in my class wrote in his diary that because of curiosity, he actually learned to eat bugs from his old hen, and he bit himself and cried. That classmate's diary is really impressive, and he laughs for a long time every time he thinks about it. In fact, the curiosity of cats is no different from that of people in childhood. Although the cat's curiosity won't make it cry, the result is likely to be harmful to itself.

Cats like to imitate others very much. Their owners will come and have a look at any snacks they pick up, and some greedy kittens will eat snacks with their owners. Tooth decay is second, mainly because the sugar and salt in snacks are too high for cats, which will cause a great burden on cats' urinary system.

So, cat owners, put down your fish fillets. If you want your cat to eat snacks with you, you can buy some cat snacks specially developed for them in the pet store. Be careful not to let your snack shells bomb your cat!

Give whatever you want.

"son! Give whatever you want! Is it not just a cat? How much fish can it eat per meal? Nothing! "

Fish is a cat's favorite food. Few cats can escape the temptation of fishy smell, but does it really matter if they eat every meal every day? All wet! Eating too much fish is harmful to the health of cats. For example, tuna itself contains a lot of polyunsaturated fatty acids, which requires a lot of vitamin E to prevent fatty acids from spoilage. If cats eat a diet containing tuna for a long time, they may suffer from yellow lipomatosis (a lot of gluten in their abdomen).

Therefore, no matter how the cat at home gives you a cat's smelly face, you should not be soft. Eat whatever you should, and don't let them eat indiscriminately.

alcohol test

Wine and tea are also called "double unique". The most famous tea in legend is Meng Po Tang. Although wine can't make people forget past lives, it can temporarily alleviate some troubles in life. As the saying goes, a drunk can solve a thousand worries. It is a beautiful thing to make an appointment with three or five friends and cook a few dishes of wine at home to make the humble abode smell of wine. Cats like to join in the fun while eating. Many families have this experience, and people don't want to eat or drink, just eat a little.