Tuesday, April 26, 2011

Tips When Preparing Cat Food

By Peggy K. Wallace


There are upsides and downsides when it comes to kitten food, but the former will be discussed first.

Not everyone has a lot of time to prepare kitten food. It simply means less work to buy ready-made food for little cats. In making kitten food, you really have to go out of your way to prepare everything - only to realize after you're done that you will be doing the same thing again in a day or so.

Studies have shown that when cats are fed properly, they can actually live for many more years, particularly when they subsist on a diet of food that greatly matches the food that they are most likely to eat, even if they were living in an alley.

It can actually be cheaper to just buy prepackaged kitten food, at least initially. The food that kittens generally live on is raw meat, and also veggies.

All things considered, it actually means paying less to have your kittens eat food that is homemade. The truth is that store-bought kitten food is loaded with preservatives, and homemade food for kittens contains more nutrition: this translates to fewer trips to the vet. Of course, you will still need to take your kittens to the vet for shots but all in all, they will not likely be very sickly.

Also see to it that you do some research. A few of the food that you eat may not be ideal for your cats, and some food for humans can even be detrimental to their health, if they are allergic to this specific food.

Some of the foods that should never be fed to cats are onions, tomatoes, as well as garlic - including foods that fall under these food groups. If there are other foods that can make cats unwell, these are dairy products, and they must not be used in homemade cat food.

Once you get used to the conventions in preparing kitten food, everything will become easier as time passes.




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