🇬🇧 5 tips for your pet to eat the food

I haven't talked about cats and dogs in a while. So now you have 5 tips for your pet to eat their food. All tips apply to both dogs and cats. Suggestions based on my personal experiences as a dog and cat owner.

1. Buy good quality food, without dyes, and prefer to buy the food in the closed package.
2. Divide the daily dose of food into at least two meals for your pet, depending on your time availability. If you work all day, one dose in the morning before you leave and another at the end of the day when you get home is the minimum. If you want to split it into 3 meals, even if you work all day, you can include a portion just before bedtime. The recommended dose is indicated on the food packaging and varies according to the type of food you buy and the weight of the animal. Try to offer your pet age-appropriate food.
3. Another option - which I use most on special dates - is to include wet food in the pet's menu. I've seen people suggest mixing dry food and wet food. I don't do this because I have the impression that dry food will wilt if the animal doesn't eat everything. If you've tried mixing before, tell me about your experience. My cats never eat a sachet of wet food all at once. Hercules, my dog, ate, mainly to prevent cats from eating his food if he left something in the pot.
4. Observe how the animal reacts when you offer it a new food. This also applies to snacks and even toys. If the animal does not like a food, a treat or a toy, it makes this very clear to those who are willing to observe and respect his preferences. Iduna, a cat I adopted when she was old, ate only fish-flavoured food, according to her former guardian. That's why I bought food with this flavour for all cats. One day, I went to buy some cat food and I didn't find any fish-flavoured food. I found one that the 3kg package came half lamb flavour and the other half salmon flavour. Salmon is fish! So I bought it. And the cat didn't eat the salmon-flavoured food!! When I noticed this, I opened the package of lamb-flavoured food, hoping she would accept it. Luckily she ate. So I left the salmon one for the others and the lamb one for her. And when the ration was running out, I went back to the fish ration, because it was usually easier to find. At the time, there were no delivery apps that delivered to pet stores, and my options for pet stores near home were very few. I love delivery apps these days because they expand shopping options a lot, making it harder for situations where I can't find what I need. And I can live very well without a car. Recently I have not been able to find, for months, the food I gave to Thor, due to a lack of distribution of the brand. Food for his age group was not available at any pet store in town. I ended up buying from a close age group, in the same flavour (chicken), and he ate it. Now that he's 12, I find the right food more easily.
5. If you notice that the pet eats the food well for a while and then doesn't eat as much, try buying smaller food packages, or seal the package well (I never sealed it, but I spoke to an english owner of a cat and he buys a big package for the cat and said it works). I know that in pet stores there are accessories to seal the food package well. If you have this experience, let me know. If the animal does not eat willingly from the beginning or does not eat at all, change the food! I only had to change Thor's food once, the same brand of salmon that Iduna didn't like. And I did. Nowadays, before I change the brand of food, I try to find out if they change it if the cat doesn't like it, because cats are very demanding with food. In my experience, they are far more fussy than dogs, but that doesn't mean you should overlook your dog's preferences.

Bonus tip: If you have cats and dogs, put the cat food in a high place that dogs cannot reach. When I adopted the cats, I left all the pots on the floor and both my dog ​​ate the cat food and the cats ate his. When I put the cat food on top, Hercules started eating all the food as soon as I served it. If he had any food left, he would lie down by the pot to keep the cats from eating his food, but I learned to serve him the right amount by observing when and how much was left.

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