When planning a feline diet, many caring owners take into account such a component as raw meat. It is believed that the cat, being an unconditional predator, is experiencing a natural need for this product. However, some owners of cats and cats are convinced that it is impossible to treat animals with raw meat.
Meat value in the diet
In the wild, raw meat is a basic component of the diet of predators. Consuming it, animals provide themselves with the energy required by them for full development and growth. Meat is the most valuable source of amino acids that play a decisive role in the formation of muscle tissue. One of the most important for a feline body is a sulfur-containing amino acid: Taurine.
This substance participates in lipid metabolism, provides normal energy and metabolic processes in the body.
Taurine deficiency leads to a deterioration in animal health, blindness, wool falling, the development of cardiovascular and endocrine diseases. For cats, this amino acid is indispensable, so it is necessarily included in modern feed. Products containing vegetable proteins are not able to compensate for the lack of substance of animal origin. They are digested worse than a feline organism, so it is impossible to replace the sources of animal protein. In addition, Taurine is not contained in products rich in vegetable protein.
What is dangerous raw product?
According to veterinarians, poor-quality product can be a potential source of threat to animal health. The most common negative consequences that can appear after feeding the cat raw meat of poor quality, it is:
- helminty;
- infectious diseases.
Often there are such situations where the caring owners feed their cats and cats with raw meat of high fatty. Fatty meat (lamb, pork, some types of birds) create exorbitant loads on the animal organism, hard and poorly absorbed. In some cases, such food can cause vomiting and disorders of the gastrointestinal tract, in others - the cause of the development of endocrine diseases and violations.
What varieties can be added?
You can use different types of meat.
- From time to time it is allowed to pamper a pet Lenten beef . This product is rich in protein and taurine, but it contains the minimum amount of fat. Before treating a pet, the meat must be subjected to thermal processing.
- Lenten lamb - Another kind of meat, which is allowed to contribute to the feline diet. As in the case of beef, the lamb should be thermally treated in advance. Both types of meat is allowed to use in the diet of the animal every day, but in small quantities.
- Crolcatin - dietary hypoallergenic product, which is characterized by light digestibility, low calorie and soft fibrous structure. Such meat is recommended to feed animals with weakened health, excess body weight, renal failure. Before making this product in a pet diet, suffering from any chronic diseases, it is necessary to consult with a veterinary specialist.
- Chicken meat - Dietary easily product, containing a large amount of protein. The useful properties of chicken allow you to use it in the diet of both young and old animals. It is important to note that the Cat or Cat menu should include only high-quality chicken, which has passed all the stages of sanitary and veterinary control. It is strictly allowed to feed pets with chicken dubious quality: for example, if there is suspicion that the product may contain antibiotics or hormones.
- Sub-products (heart, lungs, liver, scar, kidney) Veterinarians are also recommended to be introduced into the diet of animals. However, the norm should not exceed 200 g per week. Before treating a cat or a cat with similar delicacy, the sub-product must be cleaned of films, residues of fat and veins, cut into pieces and scream with boiling water, and then cool.
- Planning to treat pets Beef cookie It is important to take into account that in the raw form this product activates the activity of the intestine, and in the boiled form, on the contrary, produces a fixing effect. In case of non-compliance with the recommended norms and the absence of product processing, a pet may occur both diarrhea and constipation.
Other permitted types of meat that can be given to animals after easy heat treatment:
- horsemeat;
- veal;
- Kozday;
- Turkey;
- quail.
Before giving a cat meat, it should be cut into small pieces. In this form, the product is easier and more convenient to subjected to heat treatment. In addition, the animal will be easier to eat chopped meat than cope with a huge piece. To a greater extent, it concerns kittens and elderly animals with erased or broken teeth.
Methods Processing
Thermal processing is the main way that makes it possible to make a product safe for eating. This treatment is thermal and cold.
- Cooking - type of heat treatment of meat, allowing you to destroy potential sources of danger (helminth eggs, causative agents of infectious diseases). To treat the product, it must be divided into small pieces and pecking them in boiling water for 5 minutes.
- Walking Also reduces the likely risks of infection with a pet with helminths and intestinal infections. With this form, the processing of meat must be cut into small pieces and several times to add a plentiful jet of boiling water.
- Freezing - The type of heat treatment of meat, allowing to reduce the likelihood of pet food infection with intestinal parasites. For full processing, the product must be maintained in a freezer at least several hours. More reliable processing results are provided during freezing for 2-4 days.
What form to give an animal?
Representatives of the feline family is allowed to feed both raw and boiled meat. Pre-product must be divided into small pieces with dimensions of about 1.5 × 1.5 cm. You can not give an animal at the same time boiled and raw meat. To assimage such products, various types of enzymes are required, which can create unnecessary loads on the pet's body. An excellent addition to meat is a variety of vegetable sides. According to veterinarians, the combination of meat and vegetables is optimal for the assimilation of the animal organism.
The meat provides a feline organism protein (amino acids), and vegetables - vitamins and fiber required for good digestion.
Additionally, a small amount of olive oil is recommended in a vegetable side dish. Kittens, older animals and weakened pets who have failed surgery or any disease, it is recommended to give fresh high-quality mince. In this case, the product subjected to freezing can not be treated with steam or boiling water.
What is impossible?
It is strictly forbidden to feed the animal fatty lamb and pork. And the prohibition comes the meat of ducks and geese, harmful due to increased fatty. It is extremely undesirable to treat pets and fatty meat, peeled from Fragment of Sala. The product used for feeding the cat must be too late. To avoid serious problems with digestion, Cats and cats can not be fed smoked and fried meat. Such products create hazardous loads on the pancreas, and in some cases they can cause a digestion of the gastrointestinal tract.
It is not allowed to feed the pet residues from home table and meat waste containing bone fragments.
It is prohibited for use and products that have obvious signs of damage (unpleasant odor, modified color, the presence of mucus and dark spots on the surface). It is impossible to feed domestic pets with canned meat and sausage products. Their integral constituents are preservatives, stabilizers, amplifiers of color and taste, as well as spices. All these components are harmful to the cat's body. In some cases, such additives are capable of causeing allergic reactions and digestion problems.
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