Life expectancy of cats is 10 or 12 years, but there are long livers from 20 to 25 years.
Old cats need special treatment, care and kindness. Food need changes and you should feed it more often. Daily diet is divided into four equal parts. Balanced feed is more important for cat's health because cat's metabolism becomes slow but the cat eats as much as before. The result is an excess weight. It is necessary to reduce the amount of feed or to change feed to less caloric and then the cat won't have an excess weight.
However, the cat may hardly lose weight. This may be the reason of the disease. Therefore, show your cat to the vet two or three times a year.
It is important to care for pet's hygiene, take care of its buccal cavity. In particular, if a cat eats a lot of wet food. Since there may be a scale and it will cause teeth loss. Therefore, you can give a cat wet feed, but don't forget aboue dry feed - it has an abrasive effect, it destroys plaque and scale.
It's good if the owner remembers the cat needs protein. Therefore, its diet should include a lot of bird, fish and meat as well as vegetables and vegetable oil. It is better if the cat doesn't eat the offal, namely, kidney, liver and heart. If the cat loves them very much, it is possible to give it, but in a slightly smaller amount than usual.
The food for old cat should be cut into small peices and add vitamins into it. There always should be boil with fresh water.
Cats with age are prone to various diseases of kidney and urinary tract. It is necessary to follow the cat as it drinks water: the more water is better!
If the cat has kidney failure, the first thing to do is to refuse to give her food with high protide content!
Industrial feed is better because it is made from products of the highest quality with adding vitamins and micronutrients.
Give your cat industrial feed of vet diet to prevent and to treat oppilation.
Only a vet will pick a proper diet for your cat!
It is important to take care of its hair, as she has grown old and can no longer take care of itself in the way it did before: it forgets, muscles don't work well, it doesn't have the flexibility ... Brush its hair every day combing the mats.
The closer is the eld the longer it sleeps, and in the old age, the cat will almost always sleep. It is necessary to take care of a privacy for your pet, which will be calm, quiet, and no one will bother it.
Cats like to sit on the windowsill, watching the birds and the people, but it is hard to get on its favorite spot with time ... It is necessary to put a chair near the windowsill. Finally, try to make for your fluffy comfortable eld as possible ...
