What and how to feed a lactating cat?

2024 Author: Priscilla Miln | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-16 00:21

The cat has just given birth to the last kitten, and you finally got up from your haunches and sat down to rest near the box. Thoughts swarm randomly: "This kitten turned out to be large, and that one is small … it needs to be fed … But what about feeding the cat?" "What and how to feed a lactating cat?" - this question is asked by many inexperienced owners of a fluffy pet. And it is very relevant, because the diet of an ordinary Murka is fundamentally different from the diet of a pussy-mom. Therefore, I decided to devote today's article to questions about what and how to feed a lactating cat.

What to feed a lactating cat

Many novice cat owners, when their pet gives birth, completely forget about her and are busy feeding kittens: they constantly put them on the cat, prepare special mixtures for them on their own, etc. This is completely wrong! You need to pay most of the attention to the cat, and she will take care of her offspring properly. Before discussing the question of how to feed a cat who has given birth, let's look at what substances she currently lacks. During lactation, kittens, along with milk, “suck out” a lot of calcium, vitamins and microelements from their mother. If their supply in the bodycats don't replenish anytime soon

me, then she, after the period of feeding the kittens, will quickly lose weight and become haggard. Please tell me: do you need a skeleton wandering around the apartment and occasionally showing signs of life with a weak meow? So, a cat needs foods rich in calcium, fats, proteins, carbohydrates, minerals and trace elements. If your cat prefers natural food, then it is recommended to feed it with fish or fish products, cottage cheese, chicken eggs, and also give cream, cow or goat milk. Eggs must be boiled before eating them, then the risk that the cat will catch some kind of infection will decrease. You can also feed your cat raw meat. The maximum allowable fat content of cream that a nursing tailed mother should consume is 10%. But milk can be a problem. Cow is given to a cat only if she is accustomed to it. Otherwise, its use can lead to disorders in the body of both the tailed mother and her kittens. Introduce goat's milk into the diet gradually, because in large quantities it can cause allergies or diarrhea. Even pet stores sell special supplements for lactating cats, it is also advisable to give them to your pet. If you feed her with non-natural food, then all these substances are contained in cat food. Only in the case of them, the cat should be given unlimited access to drinking water.

How to feed a lactating cat

Question"what" is solved, now the following task arises: "How to make a cat eat normally?" After all, the tailed mother does not leave her newborn offspring for a minute and, if she is pulled out of the box, she runs back there as soon as they squeak. Everything here is built on trust. Sit with the cat, stroke it, say something affectionate, and the pet will understand that nothing threatens the life of her kittens if you are nearby. Then take it out of the box and take it to a bowl of food: in the first days after giving birth, the tailed mother is still too weak to run briskly around the apartment. Then stand next to the cat and watch her meal, and then return to the kittens, but do not touch them with your hands. After all, if the kids smell an unfamiliar smell, they will squeak and thereby tear their mother away from food. You need to take the cat out of the box after she feeds the kittens, and they go to bed.

Conclusion

Now you know what and how to feed a lactating cat. If the diet of the pet is built correctly, then it will quickly restore strength after childbirth.