Feeding your cat

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A professional’s advice (veterinary or veterinary nutritionist) regarding what to feed your cats should be sought out for your cat’s unique needs.

If your cat’s food is taken out of the refrigerator, a little bit of warm water mixed in will make it more palatable (or get the small cans to avoid this altogether). I freeze their crunchies in smaller-sized ziplock bags until needed to ensure freshness, instead of leaving them go stale in the big paper bag they come in.

Clean and fresh water should be available at all times, 24 hours a day. @ PurrBalls, the water bowls are refreshed twice a day! It’s not a good idea to put their water bowls close to their food as the water absorbs the food odours - cats don’t associate drinking with eating anyways. Remember that most cats can not tolerate the lactose in milk which gives them diarrhea.

Personal feeding preferences

You can make your choice for how and what to feed your pet more confidently if you are aware of your cat’s fundamental nutritional needs. Meals can be selected from an endless variety of commercial products or those prepared at home. Holistic veterinarians describe the foods hunted by ancestral cats in the wild as natural foods. Donald Strombeck, DVM, a professor emeritus of the University of California-Davis School of Veterinary Medicine and the author of Home Prepared Dog and Cat Diets: The Healthful Alternative, believes that restoring your cat to an all natural diet comparable to the one it foraged for in its ancestry will help to improve its natural biochemical reactions and strenghten its present day immune system.

Kallfelz, however, disagrees. He does not believe that cats were being fed better diets in the 1950s - when commercially prepared cat food was a novelty - than they are today. Nor does he think that commercially prepared foods are the cause of a greater incidence of disease problems today than 50 years ago. "Most veterinarians would agree that cats, in general, have significantly greater life spans today than they did in the mid-twentieth century," he says. "While the elimination of many contagious diseases has most certainly contributed to increased longevity and quality of life, so has the improvement in nutrition. Based on significant amounts of research, the cat foods of today do a much better job of meeting the nutrient needs of cats than they did in the middle of the last century."

Many pets are sensitive to plastic food and water bowls. Stainless steel bowls are the best! They do not absorb odours and bacteria and are easy to clean.

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