Cats are born to eat high protein food
As a pure carnivore, the cat’s body structure is perfectly adapted to digest high protein food. For example, a cat was lucky today and caught a rabbit. Raw rabbit meat contains about 16% protein and 70% water. If raw rabbit meat is air-dried, it is about 53% protein content.
So from the habit of cats, cats will not have high protein intolerance, cats are born to eat high protein food.
The soft stools just after changing the food may be due to the cat’s gastrointestinal discomfort
Protein needs to be digested by enzymes before it can be converted into absorbable amino acids. Cats eat low-protein food for a long time, and the stomach is adapted to secrete only a small amount of protein-digesting enzymes every day.
When suddenly switching to a high-protein diet, the enzymes in the stomach cannot adapt for a short time, and indigestion is prone to occur. Causes vomiting and diarrhea. Indigestion (eating more than you can digest) is most likely to occur when switching from low-grade grains to high-grade ones.
If you have soft stools just after changing the food, you can refer to the 7-day food changing method to gradually increase the proportion of new food.
If the stool is still soft after changing the food for a period of time, it may be that the cat is allergic to a certain ingredient
Different cat food uses different formulas and uses different types of animal protein (eg chicken, duck, beef, fish) and different accessories (mussels, chickpeas, grains, etc.). Allergy symptoms are mild vomiting and diarrhea, severe red rash on the body.
If your cat has a red rash on its body after changing the food (the rash is usually itchy, and the cat scratches frequently), then it is basically an allergy, and you can consider changing other food.
If the stools are still soft after changing the food for a period of time, you can try other types of food with different animal protein (such as eating chicken staple food) If your stools are often soft, then try the beef recipe), or try canned staples that are a single source of protein (like ziwi’s canned chicken contains only chicken, and canned beef contains only beef).
“antidiarrheals” such as “beets” are no longer included in the new food
Many cat foods contain “beets, beet pulp, beet roots, extract” components. So what are beets? It is a wide range of sugar-making raw materials, high in sugar and cellulose.
Adding beets to cat food has two functions: 1) Beets have sugar and stickiness, which can help dry food plasticity; 2) It can promote the cat’s gastrointestinal digestion and prevent diarrhea.
How does it improve digestion?
First of all, it allows food to stay in the intestine for a longer time, allowing the missing dry food to absorb water for a longer time and promote digestion. That is, abnormally prolonging the time of food digestion, forcing the intestinal mucosa to work longer.
Eating too much beets can easily cause the cat’s stomach burden, and cause dependence (change to other food, easy to have diarrhea), and easy to constipation. In addition, sugar is not good for cats, and eating too much can easily lead to abnormal obesity.
Cats with weak stomachs should be fed regularly
Cats with obvious weak stomachs and frequent vomiting and diarrhea are recommended to be fed regularly to give cats time to rest their stomachs.
