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The nutritious nutrition that a cat receives ensures good health and helps prevent the occurrence of many problems with it. Food belonging to the budget class, both soft and dry, is not of high quality and cannot be the cat’s main diet. If for some reason the cat is accustomed to Whiskas, it must be weaned off such unhealthy diet and switched to a nutritious diet. Due to their very high cost, only a few can afford high-quality ready-made food, and therefore most often the pet is accustomed to ordinary natural food. Veterinarians and animal owners who are faced with a similar problem can answer in detail the question of how to wean a cat off Whiskas.
My attitude towards pets
Since I lived in a “private” house since childhood, from then on I developed a purely utilitarian attitude towards pets. They either must serve a person, solving certain problems, or decorate the table, or... well, yes, in rare cases, provide aesthetic pleasure. And then, the latter most often referred to “foreign” animals, such as parrots and all other exotics.
In particular, our cats carried out a mission directly laid down by nature - they caught mice and chased other people's cats away from other living creatures. The dogs lived on the street and guarded the house from uninvited guests.
Of course, no one specially fed the village cats, and there was no whiskey in those days. They got something from the master’s table, but if modern city cats had looked into that cat’s bowl 30 years ago, they probably would have considered us fascists. However, why feed a cat that should eat mice?
Many years passed, I had children, and gradually the issue of pets began to arise more and more often. Friends had dogs and cats, but we had nothing. All the children’s attempts to become addicted, as it seemed to them, to “the beautiful” ran into a hard “no” on my part. Animals have no place in a city apartment!
I dealt with the dog quickly enough by setting a simple condition. Here's a rope, here's the frost outside - 30. Please, every morning and every evening, start walking the rope outside for 5 minutes. Hold out for a month, I’ll let you get a small dog. As you understand, the rope never saw the street.
It was more difficult with a cat, you don’t need to walk her, so you had to influence Alexandra, scaring her with fur on the floor, cat smell, torn wallpaper and all sorts of other passions. In addition, regularly going on vacation, the question would always arise of what to do with the domestic “livestock”.
For several years I managed to hold the line, but the day came when it was unexpectedly broken through.
Why is it so difficult to transition cats to normal homemade food?
The dry food contains special components:
- attractants;
- additives.
It is they that cause a pet to become addicted to store-bought food and become the biggest obstacle to the transition to natural products.
There is a high concentration of such substances in super-economy class feed.
This applies to Kitiket, Felix and Whiskas, which are especially popular among cat owners.
By purchasing such food for your pet, you are making him a kind of drug addict. The animal becomes dependent. The more he eats such food, the more difficult it will be to wean him off it.
In addition, manufacturers of artificial food for animals, using such components, try to hide the lack of useful natural substances in food.
This food is not just useless for the animal. It can cause the development of various diseases of the digestive system, including mental disorders. Especially if the owner is trying to wean the cat from its usual treat.
Cheap dry food can turn a cat into a drug addict, and the transfer will be quite difficult
Emmanuel
That day did not foretell anything bad......
