When you raise a cat, you have to be responsible for it when you buy it at home, so it is necessary to choose a suitable cat food for the cat. Suitable cat food can provide sufficient nutrients and vitamins to pet cats. The cat food selected for different cats is different, so how to choose suitable cat food for Ragdoll cats?

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1. Look at the top five highest ingredients. If there are meat or poultry by-products, grains account for the majority (for example, there are 3 items), the meat is not specified, and the preservative is BHA/BHT or Ethozyquin for cats. It is not recommended to buy grain.

2. Try to buy products from large and reputable companies. This is the truth. However, it may not be true whether cat food produced by large companies must be healthy cat food. Therefore, cat parents should consider quality. point.

3. Some of the cat dry foods on the market are produced to meet the different needs of cats, such as: hair removal formula, gastrointestinal sensitivity formula, skin sensitivity formula, gum health formula, urinary stone prevention formula, and long-haired Ragdoll formula. .....etc. With different formulas, cat owners can choose and buy according to the different needs of Ragdoll cats.

4. The storage period of general dry food is 1 to 2 years. Please read the last consumption date on the packaging bag carefully and smell the dry food when opening it. If you find that the taste is abnormal or stale, please do not feed it to your cat. , you can ask the manufacturer to return or exchange it.

5. If you want to change the brand of cat food for Ragdoll cats, do not change it in a hurry. First mix one-third of the new cat food with two-thirds of the old cat food, and then gradually increase the new cat food every day. Proportion, slowly transition until it completely replaces the old cat volume. This is done for the sake of the cat's stomach, otherwise switching to new cat food at once may cause gastrointestinal discomfort (the cat's stomach has adapted to the old cat food).

6. Cats of different ages need different cat food. Ragdoll cats need various nutrients, and minerals are also very important among them. Calcium and phosphorus play an important role in bone development.

As cats age, the calcium and phosphorus content in their food should gradually decrease. Especially the phosphorus content is in the order of young cats>adult cats>senior cats. This is because the metabolism of phosphorus is mainly completed in the kidneys. The older the cat, the lower the ability of the kidneys to metabolize phosphorus. In this way, if adult cats or even elderly cats are fed kitten food for a long time, it will easily cause kidney problems. , such as kidney failure.

In addition, the sodium content in food should also decrease as the Ragdoll cat ages. The older the cat, the higher the chance of heart disease. Sodium ions place a greater burden on the heart. In order to reduce the burden on the heart, the sodium content in the food should be reduced as the cat ages.