Importance of Complete Wet Food Diet for Cats

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To keep your pets happy and healthy, you need to provide them with the right diet. With the right nutrients, they can enjoy several benefits, including healthy growth, proper body maintenance, activeness, and prevention, and fast recovery from illness or injury. In this piece, we’ll be unveiling the reasons your pet needs to have a complete wet food diet.

 

 

What is Complete Wet Food?

 

Complete cat wet food refers to food that provides cats with all the nutrients they need. In other words, this is essentially a wet food that provides cats with all nutrients. Besides, it can be added on with some dry food.

 

 

Benefits of Cat Wet Food

 

If you’re interested in feeding your cat with wet food, check out some of its benefits below:

  1. Hydration: Since dehydration can result in serious diseases such as kidney problems, feeding your cat wet food could help reduce this risk.

  2. Good for urinary health: Feeding your cats wet food is a way to promote more diluted urine, which helps prevent urinary tract problems.

  3. Weight management: Wet food contains a lower energy density, which makes it bulkier and can help with weight loss or weight prevention plans.

  4. Constipation: Wet food can be of great help, particularly when dehydration poses a risk of constipation.

 

 

What are the Main Nutrient Requirements for Cats?

 

 

Your cats need some nutrients in the body to live healthily. This is why every time you decide to feed them, you must ensure that their diets contain these nutrients. These nutrients that will help them thrive are in six categories.

 

  • Protein: Proteins play important role in maintaining the internal organs and tissues of your cat. When feeding your cat, ensure that their diets contain animal protein from such meats as chicken, turkey, beef, eggs, and fish. With the correct intake of proteins, your cats can function well, regenerate body tissue, and keep strong, healthy claws and fur.

 

  • Fat: Cats get energy from animal fats. These fats are present in fish, meat, fatty acids (such as Omega 3 and Omega 6 fatty acids) and they help maintain body temperature, offer needed energy, and absorb vitamins such as A, D, E, and K.

 

  • Carbohydrate: Carbs are present in grains such as rice and wheat. Due to how these grains are added to wet cat foods, they are pre-treated to enhance digestibility and absorption into the body of your cat.

 

  • Vitamin: Vitamins are essential in cat foods as they help in different ways. The most common essential vitamins your cat should receive from their diet include vitamin A (for a strong immune system and healthy vision), Vitamin D (balancing and retaining calcium and phosphorus), Vitamin B1 (Thiamine helps with the healthy metabolism of carbohydrates and the maintenance of normal growth and nerve impulse transmission), Vitamin B2 (Riboflavin helps with growth and overall good health), Vitamin B3 (Niacin helps keep your cat’s nervous system, gastrointestinal functions, and skin healthy), and Vitamin B6 (Pyridoxine helps the body break down carbohydrates, proteins, and fats to produce energy and distribute oxygen).

 

  • Mineral: Minerals play a good role in enzyme formation, pH balance, nutrient utilization, and oxygen transportation. The few minerals crucial to your cat’s health include sodium, iron, potassium, chloride, and magnesium.

 

  • Water: Water is an essential nutrient for cats and helps their body maintain temperature, distribute nutrients correctly, metabolize nutrients, and eliminate toxins.

 

 

Importance of Feeding Dry and Wet Food to Cat

 

 

There are various nutritional benefits of feeding dry and wet food to your cat. These includes:

 

  • Maintains dental health: The dental health of your cats is important. When your cats chew dry food, it helps them get rid of tartar, slow down plaque accumulation in teeth. However, when you neglect dental health, it could expose cats to multiple health risks including infections, diseases, and pathogen exposure. But the removal of tartar and plaque prevents cats from getting harmed by harmful bacteria accumulating there.

 

  • Higher energy density: Dry and wet food are good for pets that are picky eaters. So, try to ensure that they have sufficient carbo intake. Nonetheless, higher energy density can be a problem in cats that can’t self-regulate their energy intake. This in particular can result in obesity. So, there must be regulation.

 

  • Supports Cats’ Natural Grazing: Cats do eat multiple small meals all day in the wild. With dry food, you may decide to leave their food out to make them instinctively graze upon it. You may not want to try this with wet food as it will spoil if left out too long.

 

  • Balanced diet: It balances the disadvantages of wet and dry food and evens them out.

 

  • Prevents boredom: It’s advisable not to stick to one form of cat food. Try to experiment with different forms.

 

 

Precautions

 

Ensure you take the following precautions:

  • Make dry food less energy-dense. Dry food seems to have a higher energy density which can cause a problem in cats that cannot self-regulate their energy intake.

  • Store wet food appropriately. If you fail to keep opened wet food properly, it can breed bacteria and cause digestive issues if ingested by a cat.

  • Wet food is more costly than dry on a per calorie basis. So, know what to budget for.

 

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