I wonder if you have noticed that there will always be cat food left in the cat bowl at home Even if there is cat food in the bowl, cats would rather meow and meow than eat it. Why is this? In fact, there may be the following reasons behind it~ Reas...
I wonder if you have noticed that there will always be cat food left in the cat bowl at home
Even if there is cat food in the bowl, cats would rather meow and meow than eat it. Why is this?
In fact, there may be the following reasons behind it~
Reason 1: When you are full, the first reason is of course, you give too much. When a cat is full, the cat's stomach is about the size of a ping-pong ball, and it can only hold 1-2 tablespoons of food at a time.
Moreover, their stomachs cannot be used to store too much food. Excessive eating will cause the stomach to be too full and spit out the food, so some cats will spit out if they eat too much cat food at a time
Cats only need 250 calories a day.
For wild cats, this is equivalent to the ability provided by 7-8 mice.
Although 7-8 mice look a lot, ordinary mice only contain about 35 calories.
Most commercial cat food is high-energy, and it only takes a little to meet the daily needs of cats
If you give too much of it every day, the cat may over-intake and become obese, or have leftovers.
This is because the cat is full, and the ones that cannot be eaten are naturally left in the bowl.
Reason 2: Instinct for storing food
In the wild, cats will store food for later use. That's because hunting food in the wild is not easy, and they never know when the next meal will be.
So, cats instinctively like to eat a few small meals a day, rather than a big meal at a time, and will not eat all the food in one go, because that's what their instinct tells them to make.
Eating enough can also hinder their athletic ability, which means they are difficult to hunt and cannot rescue themselves from danger.
So, even pet cats today, instinct will make them have the habit of storing food
Reason 3: The food is not fresh
Some cat owners like to give buffets, giving them two or three days at a time
, but this will cause the cat food to be exposed to the air for a long time, and they will contact the cat's saliva every day, and there may be cockroaches crawling at night, which may cause cat food to deteriorate
, and often the cat food that is eaten at the bottom is stored for the longest time, and it may have already rotten. Humans obviously smell not fresh enough, and more importantly, cats with a much more sensitive sense of smell
, so the best way is to quantify the amount that the cat can eat, don't be greedy for convenience, let the cat eat stale food
PS: Fresh food Things can easily cause cats to have diarrhea? Reason 4: Beard pressure
An excellent cat bowl is shallow and wide, which allows cats to eat food easily
An excellent cat bowl does not require the cat to bury its head into the bowl, and the wall of the bowl will not squeeze the cat's beard's beard's very sensitive, and you can even feel the slight changes in the air flow in the air
The ends of the beard are also Sensitive nerve receptors are everywhere. If a cat must press its beard for meals, then this meal is uncomfortable. Therefore, many cats will not eat the cat food on the surface after eating, because if they want to eat cat food at the bottom, they will be forced to put their entire face into a bowl to eat, and the beard will be stressed, the cat will feel uncomfortable and painful. Similarly, when a cat eats, it will inevitably push the food to the side, making it difficult for the cat to pick it up with its mouth. They don't have a long, strong tongue to clean up the remaining food, so they will leave food until you fill the center of the bowl.
To solve this problem, you can buy a suitable cat bowl: wide, shallow, ceramic or stainless steel, with a little weight that is not easy to overturn.
Reason 5: Face shape and tongue
Some cats have a little difficulty in grabbing food with their tongues.
This situation is particularly common among flat-faced breeds, such as Garfield and Persian cats.
Due to their unique head shape and face shape, it is difficult for them to pick up food on the underside of their tongue. This makes it very difficult for a flat-faced cat to eat. Drinking water makes it wet the whole head. People who have raised it know how slow the flat-faced cat eats. It is really a terrible thing to eat after eating for a long time. Especially if you feed your cat wet food or use a deep bowl, it will make it worse.
In some cases, you need to feed your cat hand to make sure it gets the nutrition it needs
Teaching tips: It is particularly convenient to feed garfields or wet food with a syringe~
Reason 6: Disease Problems
If your cat feels uncomfortable, it will only eat the amount of food it needs to survive.
It may have no appetite at all, but it won't starve itself to death, so leftovers will appear.
Among them, gum disease is very common in cats. This can cause pain, and it is also common for cats to dislike eating
oral ulcers and tongue inflammation.
Other health conditions that may affect cats' dietary habits include:
Constipation
Diarrhea
Dotolar pain
Urgenital obstruction
Disease
Urgent tract obstruction
Digestible obstruction
Upper respiratory tract infection
Kidney disease
If your cat obviously loses appetite, what you could eat before now is always left, and there are signs of pain, discomfort or pain, it is recommended to take it to the veterinarian for examination as soon as possible.
Therefore, cats can never finish the food in the bowl. It’s not that cats are blind, but that it’s really hard to talk!
