What to feed a Bengal kitten and an adult cat?

Properly feeding the pet of the Bengal breed is necessary because the animal has a sensitive digestive tract prone to disturbances. Given this feature, you should adhere to the requirements relating to natural food and feed. The appetite and the normal digestion of food in Bengalis are also affected by care, providing perfect cleanliness.

In nature, cats of this breed are predators, feeding on small animals and birds, and they eat them completely, getting all the necessary substances and vitamins. It is not hard to guess that human food is poorly digested by them.

If a mini-leopard appeared in the house, you will have to seriously study the question of what type of diet to choose and how many times to give food:

• to feed the Bengal kitten, which was recently born, will first need often, porridges, diluted to a state of suspension, and only 1.5 months later you can start adding more solid food components;
• at 3 months, the baby’s menu requires changes, gradually reducing the number of liquid meals and increasing the portions of meat;
• if the kitten is 4-6 months old, then it can be given not shredded meat, but small pieces, because its jaws are already formed by this time;
• An adult Bengal cat and a cat are fed once or twice a day, the main part of their food (70%) is meat, and also 2 times a week you can pamper your pet with fish, once in 7 days you have to give chicken yolk.

His future health depends on how well the kitten will eat from the first days, but he should receive mother's milk up to 3-4 weeks. In a month, a small leopard can already be prepared with complementary foods - this is the food of a liquid consistency, which its tiny stomach can assimilate. Usually it is semi-puree. However, if the kitten is a newborn, its feed for up to a month can be a cat milk substitute in the form of a suspension. At this time, dairy products cause diarrhea in kittens and can lead to their death.

In the future, the menu is systematically changed.

• 1.5-2 months Kittens are given pasty cereals with the addition of boiled meat. Kefir, cottage cheese and yogurt are allowed. If the choice fell on the finished feed, you can choose a pate.
• 3 month pets increase the amount of meat up to 30%, reducing dairy products. The meat pieces are cut larger, boiled vegetables are added to them.
• 4 months old Bengalu relies about 60% of the meat, he must eat daily cereals and vegetables, mixed and raw, but in small quantities. If boiled porridge, then make it more dense.

If the owner wishes, in the future to feed the pet with branded feeds, at 3 months, he can be gently started to give dry granules, combining them with meat. Dairy products are needed up to 4 months of age.so that the baby has a useful intestinal microflora - the kitten's immunity depends on it.

It is important to know how many times a day to feed a pet so that it receives the necessary substances and does not feel hungry:

• in 2-3 weeks - up to 10 feedings per day;
• 1 month - about 8 times;
• 2-month crumbs require up to 7 meals;
• 3 months - 6 times a day;
• from 4 to 5 months - 5 times.

For Bengali activity and well-being, the ration should include the following main ingredients.

1. Fresh, quality meat: beef, chicken, rabbit, turkey. Previously it is placed in the freezer for 2 days. Before feeding, the films and streaks are not removed - the predator will cope with them perfectly.
2. Occasionally by-products allowed: beef liver, heart, scar, lungs, liver, chicken entrails, necks and joints.
3. A fish allowed no more than 3 times a week, preferably sea without small bones. Cats do not want to give it often, due to the development of urolithiasis.

Products not allowed for animals:

• fatty meat - pork, lamb, duck, goose;
• fish with small bones (river);
• bird bones;
• smoked and salted foods;
• any spicy, sweet dishes;
• spice.

Peas, lentils and other legumes can not be given, because they can cause increased gas formation in the intestine. Due to the presence of starch, potatoes are also not permitted, increasing the risk of indigestion. The animal can drink milk, water and meat broths.

The main food requirement for a sterilized pet is to prevent it from overeating.

The only thing that cannot be done is to reduce the frequency of feedings. Obesity often leads to diseases of the blood vessels, heart, and disruption of the normal course of metabolic processes. You can avoid it by daily spending time playing with animals. But if the Bengali has already managed to gain excess weight, it will have to be transferred to a low-calorie diet.

After sterilization, the owner must immediately determine whether his animal will use factory feed or eat homemade food - you can not mix these two types of food. It is better to purchase industrial dry food in the form of pellets or canned food from reliable manufacturers. It is desirable to avoid high content of phosphorus and magnesium in them, since these components can lead to the formation of stones.

Home-made food, which is preferable for sterilized pets, is beef, poultry, offal, cereal with milk, dairy products, vegetables. It is undesirable to give animals fish, as well as raw liver. Products for the table pet chosen with regard to calories and the lack of magnesium and phosphorus. A pet should always have a sufficient amount of pure water, regardless of what it eats.

Due to the fact that Bengalis are large animals, and their average weight is 7-8 kg, large fruits form in cats, and as a result, pregnancy can be complicated. Therefore, a well-designed menu and diet are important for cat mothers, both during the kittens and in the postpartum period.

In the first 30 days after conception, the pet's appetite decreases, and its taste preferences change. The cat either eats little or is capricious, using only what she likes. This is a natural phenomenon, and you should treat the state of mommy with understanding.

But already in the second month the situation may change in the direction of increasing appetite.This is great, but closer to the birth, the amount of food should be gradually reduced, because childbirth can be difficult due to the large size of the kittens and too much body weight of the mother herself. The diet of the animal during pregnancy can be a special ready-made food for Bengal cats or natural food, represented by the following products:

• cooked meat;
• fatty fish;
• dairy products;
• vegetables as a source of vitamins.

In the first month, the cat especially requires calcium, and in the second half of pregnancy it is better to feed it with protein food.

A nursing cat is not denied anything, but most of all, the cat's body needs plenty of liquid, so you can give warmed milk, cream, and meat broths to your pet - best of all beef, to which you can add meat pieces. Also important, so mom regularly consumed a little sour cream, cottage cheese.

Taking the Bengal breed into the house and preparing to feed it with natural products, the owner must know whether ordinary food is acceptable to him and in what form.

• Some believe that the natural predator should eat only raw meat, but in fact beef, rabbit, poultry can be cooked, stewed, used in the form of pieces or minced meat. Raw pieces must be scalded before serving.
• Offal - veal liver, lungs or chicken intestines are given every 7 days to diversify the diet.
• From fish for the cat's table is suitable sage, pollock, tuna. At the age of one year it is permitted to occasionally (once a week) to give herring or salmon.
• For the body of the pet oatmeal is considered useful, however, as well as rice, and buckwheat, but it should be cooked in lean beef broth. Then add meat or fish minced meat and chopped greens to the dish.
• Porridge and cooked vegetables can be seasoned with vegetable oil - flax, sunflower, olive - these are sources of tocopherol.
• Small kittens and adult pets with pleasure eat germinated grains of wheat, oats and cat grass. At home, it is easy to grow these plants, so useful for the pet. They help get rid of pieces of wool in the digestive tract and saturate the body with vitamins.

Sour milk products are also desirable, especially cottage cheese, ryazhenka and kefir. You can also give milk, but only if it does not provoke vomiting or diarrhea.

The advantages of ready-made feeds are the content of useful substances in them, long-term storage, a large assortment, and there is no need to waste time on cooking. You can enter them into the diet as early as 3 months, the main thing is to do it gradually.

Choosing such products, you should consider the following factors:

• age of the animal;
• its weight and lifestyle;
• the presence of a sensitive digestive system (allergies to certain components);
• sterilization, in which the pet relies special dishes;
• diseases that require a diet.

To be confident in the health of the cat, it is wiser to purchase premium food, super premium, holistic. But you also need to pay attention to the composition, fitness and, of course, the preferences of a pet. Top brands - Royal Canin, Eukanuba, Orijen, Canidae, Eagle Pack Holistic Select.

The principle of the combined type of food is that basically the animal feeds on high-quality dry food, containing a balanced composition. At the same time, a pet is allowed to be fed with ordinary natural food - fresh meat, cereals, fish.

However, such a ration is not suitable for Bengal kittens, and it can be used only in relation to adults. At 4 months, the kitten begins to give suitable dry food, but be sure to soak milk, broth, or water until it has a change of milk teeth.

Natural food for Bengalis is allowed to combine only with high-quality canned food, and then only when the animal is transferred to factory feed.

In the next video you will learn the recipe for Bengal kitten food, which can be made from minced meat, carrots and cauliflower.