Is your cat not suffering from any disease and in good health, but prone to diarrhea and vomiting?

Is your cat’s food intake not much different from cats of the same age, but it develops slowly and weighs less?

If your cat has the above symptoms, it is likely to be a cat with a sensitive stomach. Cats with sensitive stomachs have poor nutrient absorption, so they will not gain weight if they eat too much. At the same time, they often suffer from vomiting and diarrhea due to difficulty digesting.

Owners need to be more careful when feeding cats with sensitive stomachs to avoid vomiting, diarrhea and other behaviors, so that the cat’s “fragile” digestive system can absorb more adequate nutrients and ensure the cat’s nutritional needs. Otherwise, cats may become malnourished and develop a series of health problems such as anemia.

So, how should you feed a cat with a sensitive stomach? Let’s find out together!

　1.Control food intake and eat small meals frequently

If you have a cat with a sensitive stomach at home, feeding must be regular and quantitative. Some scavengers always fill the cat food bowl with cat food, and then refill the cat food bowl after the cat has eaten. However, this approach is very unsuitable for cats with sensitive stomachs. Because in this way, the cat will eat a lot, which will eventually increase the burden on the gastrointestinal tract and is not conducive to the absorption of nutrients.

Therefore, cats need to be fed regularly and quantitatively. Before each feeding, add only the amount of food your cat will eat in one meal into the food bowl. At the same time, feed multiple times a day. Adult cats should be fed at least three times a day, four times a day if possible, and kittens should be fed at least four times a day.

At the same time, in order to prevent the cat from eating too much too quickly at one time, you can use slow food bowls, or divide the same amount of food into multiple small bowls and place them in various corners of the home so that the cat can find and eat at the same time, which can effectively correct the problem. Bad habit of eating too fast.

　2.Pay attention to hydration

In the cat’s daily diet, it is necessary to provide the cat with sufficient drinking water. Food that is too dry may cause too much stress for your cat to digest it. Therefore, drinking water should be prepared for the cat next to its food bowl.

At the same time, you can consider feeding your cat a mixture of dry and wet food instead of pure dry cat food. Compared with feeding dry food alone, mixing wet food can make cat food much softer and moister, which is more conducive to cat digestion.

Finally, the best drinking water for cats is boiled water to ensure that cats will not be invaded by bacteria or irritated by other substances. Do not give your cat tap water or purified water.

　3.Please do not change food frequently

If the cat owner changes the cat food every time the cat eats one kind of cat food, or changes the cat food every one or two months, then the cat food is changed too frequently.

Frequently changing cat food will cause unnecessary irritation to the cat’s digestive system. Under normal circumstances, if your cat is in good health after eating one type of cat food and does not frequently suffer from vomiting and diarrhea, please try not to change the cat food.

However, for cats with sensitive gastrointestinal tracts, general cat food often causes vomiting and diarrhea because of excessive carbohydrate, fat and other substances. Therefore, if your cat often vomits and has diarrhea when eating normal cat food, please change it to one suitable for sensitive gastrointestinal tracts. Hypoallergenic natural grain food for cats.

At the same time, when changing cat food, a gradual food change method should be adopted. Mix the new cat food into the old cat food to allow the cat to gradually adapt. Gradually increase the proportion of new cat food over the next 7 days, and eventually replace the old cat food with new cat food.

During the food change period, owners should regularly observe the cat’s mental and behavioral conditions. If there are any abnormalities, they should consult and receive treatment from a professional pet doctor in a timely manner.

4. Adjust diet structure

The above-mentioned not to change cat food frequently for cats is based on the premise that cats can absorb it normally after eating this kind of cat food without vomiting or diarrhea.

If the cat suffers from indigestion, vomiting and diarrhea after eating a certain food, the owner should adjust the cat’s diet in time. For cats with sensitive stomachs, a diet that is easy to digest and nutritious is the most important. Because this is directly related to the cat’s daily nutritional intake.

First of all, don’t let your cat eat food that your family eats. For example, cereals, stir-fried vegetables, or meat cooked with oil and salt. Be sure to let your cat eat professional cat food.

When choosing cat food, cat owners should also pay attention to the fact that general cat food may contain corn, wheat, soybean, and sorghum grain ingredients, and these ingredients are often easy to cause allergies in cats. At the same time, cats are relatively inefficient at digesting grains. lower. Therefore, if your cat has a sensitive stomach, you should choose hypoallergenic and grain-free natural cat food~