Nutrition of the Scottish Straight Longhair Cat: quantity and frequency of meals
Nutrition of the Scottish Straight Longhair, everything you need to know to ensure a healthy and long life for your cat.
Our feline friends, just like us, need to pay attention to their eating habits.
Even if not in words, our cat asks us to diversify and integrate its diet with nutritious and healthy products.
This type of food treatment, if properly balanced, will allow our cat to be in perfect shape and to retain its mysterious charm.
In this article, in particular, we will talk about the nutrition of the Scottish Straight Longhair, a breed of cat of Scottish origin.
What to feed the Scottish Straight Longhair
When deciding to adopt a purebred cat, great care must be taken to gather the right information on the type of diet.
The Scottish Straight Longhair is a medium-sized cat, weighing between 4/6 kg. It has a medium bone covered with good musculature, has a robust but rounded appearance.
It is a breed that likes to eat and limits must be set, never giving in to its demands and never overdoing the portions.
Experts suggest dividing the meals into several portions, encouraging the animal to move by trying to provide an environmental area enriched with games and pastimes, such as shelves and scratching posts for cats.
As far as the feeding of the Scottish Straight Longhair is concerned, it does not matter if commercially available feeds are used or if tasty homemade cat recipes are prepared at home.
what matters is that the nutritional values, the quality of fresh products and good hygiene in preparation are respected.
The foods to be used for any recipes for cats are: chicken, turkey, beef, salmon, tuna, trout, mackerel, fresh fruit and vegetables, fermented milk products, probiotics.
Without excluding foods such as offal, liver and muscles, rich in essential nutrients for the animal’s well-being, including:
Taurine;
Thiamine;
Niacin;
Vitamin B12 for the cat.
While as regards the fat it must not exceed 10%.
It is also essential that animal proteins are present, as well as minerals and vitamins such as: calcium, phosphorus, magnesium, potassium, sodium and chlorine and vitamins such as iron, potassium, calcium, magnesium, copper, zinc and selenium, vitamin E, C, D, and K.
The question of vitamins is particular and must be addressed with the veterinarian who is treating the cat.
Nutrition of the Scottish Straight Longhair: doses and frequency of meals
The Scottish Straight Longhair, as we have been able to understand, needs a balanced diet due to the tendency to gain weight.
For this breed of cat it is necessary to ration the food and adapt the diet according to age, state of health, sex and weight.
Experts recommend feeding meals based on the cat’s age, i.e. starting in the first months of the cat’s life with 3 and 4 servings a day, 25 to 30 grams each.
Then moving on to consume 160 grams of wet food or dry food (croquettes) every day.
As for cats over 7 years of age and considered elderly, the diet is the same as that of an adult cat, obviously bearing in mind the state of health and lack of movement.
