Cats, like children, cannot be over-loved. Because of the over-loving of pet owners, there are many examples of cats developing many bad habits. Many cats are overweight or extremely picky eaters, which may be developed by the pet owner feeding the cat casually when they eat. Here are some ways to correct your cat's bad habits.
1. Correcting cat habits and diet
1. Obese cat bulimia
refers to cats's food intake Obesity in cats caused by too much intake can be achieved through starvation therapy or diet therapy to reduce food and weight for cats and achieve normal conditions.
2. Anorexia and refusal to eat
Anorexia is a manifestation of cat food deficiency, manifested as a refusal to eat some or a special food, and anorexia can easily lead to insufficiency of nutrient intake. balance, resulting in a cat's bodily dysfunction or disorder, requiring medical treatment.
3. Pica eating disorderly
Pica is an abnormal feeding behavior, mainly manifested as ingesting substances other than normal food. When you see that the cat has abnormal feeding behavior, spray water on it immediately, and the cat will run away immediately when it is suddenly attacked.
4. Correct Eating Plants
Cats can become enemies of houseplants. It may chew off leaves and flowers, shave dirt, and use flower pots as toilets. Prepare a pot of grass for your cat, or spray diluted lemon juice on your houseplants, as cats hate lemon juice.
5. Correcting Cat Love Breaks
Cats instinctively need to scratch to exercise their claws, but that doesn't mean you should allow them to scratch your new favorite sofa. Give cats toys or scratching sticks, which can meet the needs of cats who like to scratch.
Praise and pet the cat when using a scratching stick, and correct it quickly if it finds something else.
6. Correct the cat's love of urination
Some cats often spray urine on the walls, clothes, refrigerators, tape recorders, bookcases, owner's beds, kitchen utensils, etc. of houses. This is a form of enclosure behavior by cats. This behavior is more severe in uncastrated cats than in castrated cats.
Whenever cat owners find cats spraying urine, they immediately spray the cat with water guns, because cats are afraid of water, and this abnormal behavior can be corrected over time. However, the owner needs to be properly educated, not to spray water too much.
2. Cultivate good eating habits for cats
1. Kitten diet methods
The first few days of kittens' life are completely dependent on breast milk, and no additional food is required . During this period, the ideal growth rate should be 100 grams per ?L. However, due to the influence of nutrition, breed and female cat weight, there are great differences between different individuals.
(1) Three L after the kitten was born
Three to four weeks to 2.5 months after birth, 4 to 5 times a day. Dried cat food can be prepared with hot water and cat milk and then given to cats, and given in small amounts just after the weaning period, and the frequency is increased. Some cats have diarrhea when ingesting cow's milk, so use only cat milk.
(2) 2 months after the cat was born
3 times a day from 2.5 months to 6 months after birth. Give dry cat food directly, and be sure to keep fresh water nearby at all times so it can drink. 6 months after birth to adult cats 2 times a day.
2. Change the eating habits
It takes a process to change the eating habits of cats, which takes about a week. First break up what it likes to eat, and then mix the new food in a ratio of 1:6, new food 1:6 that it likes to eat.
Reduce the amount of old food by 20% every day, fill it with new food, and so on, you can feed the new food on the seventh day.
3. Regular and quantitative feeding
Regular feeding can make the cat’s gastric juice secretion and gastrointestinal motility more regular, enhance the sense of hunger, and is of great benefit to food intake, digestion and absorption, and more Conducive to growth and development. Irregular feeding can make it difficult to control the amount of feeding and disrupt digestion and absorption.
4. Do not condone the cat's gluttony
Do not condone the cat's habit of eating meat. Eating all meat will make the kitten indigestion, difficult to absorb and cause diarrhea. It would be better to choose BiRigi cat food, BiRiji cat food is a natural cat food with a variety of nutrients.
5. Feeding small amounts of food frequently
The feeding of kittens must be paid attention to. This is because the kitten's digestive system has not yet grown, and its relative function is relatively weak. If too much food is fed at one time, it will be a great burden on the kitten's digestive system. However, you should also pay attention to regular and quantitative meals, and you must not change them at will.