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Pet food – what kinds of food your pets should not eat

By Della on May 19, 2010 |Pets

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Pet owners often make big mistakes when feeding their pets so that it causes many troubles for the pets. Here are five mistakes that pet owners should avoid in daily life in order to keep the pets healthy.

Mistake 1 Add other food into pet food

Pet food has a reasonable match according to different life stages of pets, which is Conducive to digestion and absorption of various nutrients to ensure the pet's healthy growth. If the pet food is added other food, it will destroy the whole value of its balance and influence the absorption of nutrients, prone to pet obesity or other nutritional diseases.

Mistake 2 Feed a puppy with adult pet food

Puppy is in the growth and development stage, needing more necessary nutrition and energy than adult pets, in particular, requiring large amounts of protein, calcium and amino acids. Feeding a puppy adult dog food will easily lead to its slow growth, decreased immune function, anemia, rickets.

Mistake 3 Feed pet with man food

Dogs and cats are carnivores, with relatively short intestinal tract, and gastrointestinal secretion of digestive juice is conducive to digestion and absorption of animal muscle and bone. Their intestinal is different from humans’ greatly.

Mistake 4 Feed your pets with livers with carrots

This kind of food may easily lead to rickets or adult dog puppy bone softening disease. Both dogs and cats suffering from the disease appear to be healthy, but gastrointestinal function becomes weak, and they eat less, and do not love the activities.

Mistake 5 Feed the pet with raw fish, shrimp and meat

There are many hazardous substances in the raw meat, fish and shrimp, and it will cause disease for your pets. In addition, raw meat and raw fish may also contain salmonella, E. coli and other pathogenic bacteria, and these bacteria may produce toxins which are harmful to the dogs and cats seriously.

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