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So, which diet best suits your cat? Is it dry food, or rather raw food? Some may even go further and argue that an organic diet feed is the best.

Regardless of whether the feed is semi-dry, raw food (veg), organic food, grain-free, wet food or if it’s dry feed, please focus more on the ingredients and nutrient contents of the food, moreover, ensure that it’s a balanced diet.

How do you know if your cat food is balanced?

So, how do you know that your cat food is balanced when you purchase or prepare it? According to WebMD, you should look for a statement from the Association of American feed control officials (AAFCO).

Understanding The Importance of Giving Your Cat A Meat Diet

Unlike other pets such as dogs, cats require specific vitamins, proteins, and minerals that come specifically from meat. And to be more precise cats require a highly digestible animal protein diet.

However, according to Pet Education, the meat diet should not be raw meat as raw meat contains bacteria such as Salmonella and E.colli which are harmful to cats posing serious threats to their health.

Cat eat a wide variety of meat including chicken, game hens, beef, lamb, duck, turkey, goat meat, rabbit, and organ meats. Consider including a small portion of such meat in your cat’s diet.

Giving Your Cat Wet Food

As a Cat pet owner, by now you have realized that cats don’t drink lots of water. This can be attributed to many facts some of which include; that some cats prefer drinking running water (Click here to see why I rate this cat fountain), and some prefer drinking from a kitchen sink (Click here to see why she may pee in there too) whereas some won’t simply drink water from plastic or metallic bowl.

Cats struggle to digest carbs

To make the matter even worse, unlike dogs, cats’ bodies lack the necessary metabolic pathways required for processing carbohydrates. So how do you deal with such situations?

Ensure that you give your cat wet food. Wet food is ideal for proper nutrition and also prevents urinary tract infections that are common among cats.

Most canned cat foods are wet foods and as such consider purchasing them. Wet foods contain high levels of water content and are rich in animal protein, moreover, they have lower carbohydrate nutrient levels.

What About Dry Cat Food?

Dry cat food is a rich source of carbohydrates but is less nutritious. Continuous feeding of dry foods to your cat is not recommended as the food is rich in carbohydrates which may lead to diabetes, obesity, urinary infections, and kidney problems among cats.

However this is not to say that dry cat food should be avoided, it’s only recommended to feed your cat with small portions of these feeds. And as such, you should try giving your cat a fixed formula of dry food.

Organic Food For Cats

First of all, before we discuss organic foods for cats it’s important to distinguish between organic cat foods and natural cat foods.

Most natural cat foods do not contain any chemically synthetic ingredients and their ingredients are derived only from plants (What if your cat pees in your plants? Click here), animals, or mined sources.

Organic cat foods, on the other hand, refers to cat food made from a combination of organic nutrients mixed to come up with a more balanced food diet.

Organic cat foods are good for cats as they ensure optimal health for cats while at the same time feature a taste that cats love.

Some of the other advantages of feeding your cat with organic cat food are as follows:

1. Healthier Pets; Natural organic cat foods improve your cat’s skin coat as well as boost your pet’s energy levels
2. Longer life; Organic cat food maximizes your cat’s life expectancy and its overall quality of life.
3. Less food needed; Organic cat food contains a high level of nutrition requiring you to

If possible serve the cat less food. But check she is fulfilled first.

Grain-Free Food For Cats

According to PetCareRX, cats lack a salivary enzyme called amylase which is responsible for breaking down carbohydrates found in grains such as wheat and corn before they reach the stomach.

As such cats find it hard to digest grains.

Another reason why cats don’t like grain feeds is that some of them are allergic to grains. Therefore, it’s recommended that pet owners avoid feeding grain feeds to their cats.

Grain-free food is advantageous as they are more nutritious because they contain lots of ingredients that cats would be eating in the wild, grain-free feeds also eliminate the ingredients that cause sensitivity leading to allergic reactions.

Raw Foods For Cats

Making raw homemade feeds for cats is a good option as it allows pet owners to locally make and prepare their pet food that is of high ingredients including minerals, vitamins, and proteins.

However, Pet owners when preparing such feeds they have to ensure proper preparation following the guidance of a veterinary officer to ensure quality control to prevent the risk of bacterial contamination or nutritional deficiency.

When preparing raw foods, cat owners need to take into account that cats require water, minerals, vitamins, fatty acids, amino acids, and proteins and as such ensure comprehensive inclusivity of such important nutrients in the foods being prepared.

CONCLUSION

A cat requires a healthy balanced diet that ranges from eating the suggested six varieties of food namely; meat foods, wet foods, dry foods, organic foods, grain-free foods, and raw veg foods.

A meat diet (Click here to see if they can eat Deli Meat) is essentially important as cats normally require specific vitamins, minerals, and proteins derived from animal meat. However, raw meat should be avoided at all costs as it possesses bacteria ( salmonella and E. Colli) which normally affects the health of cats.

Wet foods are also equally important as they contain high water content levels since cats don’t drink lots of water. Regulation of dry food should be observed to prevent the consumption of too many carbohydrates by the cats which may lead to diabetes, obesity, urinary, and kidney problems.

Organic foods should also be considered as they ensure healthier pets, guarantee a longer life, and reduce the food intake (Click here to see what other food tastes like temptations) levels by cats. Grain-free feeds should also be administered as cats find it hard to digest grains and some of them are allergic to grains.

Finally, raw feeds are also nutritious but caution should be taken when preparing them to avoid contamination and nutritional deficiencies.