Cats Health

What can happen to a cats health if you feed a cat the wrong foods?

Hay everyone…

Thanks for helping me…

i am currently doing my Animal Care Diploma, and got to this question,
“”What can happen to a cats health if you feed a cat the wrong foods?”"

I have wrote about the basics if you over feed your cat it will go fat but i need alittle bit more details and information to what will happen, what might happen, how to stop it (outside cat and inside cat)….

I hope someone can help me

Thanks
Rachieeee

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Well, there are several things that can go wrong by feeding a cat an improper diet.

Okay, aside from feline obesity, which you’ve already covered, they could survive on the wrong food, but it wouldn’t last for long.
By feeding a cat the wrong food, you would notice it starting to deteriorate in health.
If it is still a kitten, it would not be able to develop properly, which would be extremely detrimental to it’s future health.
What MIGHT happen is just an early and sudden death. Or the cat will, out of hunger, eat random things like plastic, or bits of human food dropped off the table on accident, and become deathly ill.
I’d equate it to raising your child on Big Macs, fries, and ice cream.
It’ll survive for awhile, but the end result is gonna be far too soon, and tragic.

Now, a bit more detail would be the first signs.
A) A cat isn’t going to eat what it doesn’t want. If it’s not proper nutrition, most of the time, the cat will refuse to eat it. For instance, if the “wrong” food that you gave it was bird food, the cat’s just going to stare at you like, “What is this crap?”
So in turn, the cat will slowly starve itself.
B) If the cat did eat the wrong food that it is provided, then there’s a sequence of things that will generally begin to happen.
-The cat would become lethargic and listless, and not want to play or be active. It would choose to sleep as often as it could, and move as little as possible.
- The cat would be vomiting and have trouble digesting what it does eat.
-Then the cat’s fur would fade in color, and become dull, and start to fall out in clumps.
- It’s eyesight would begin to deteriorate, to the point of total blindness.
- It will begin to have trouble using the litterbox, and just go wherever it pleases.
- It will be in so much pain, feeling miserable and ill.
- And consequently, death will result.

This can be changed by gradually introducing proper diet with complete nutrition and vitamins that the cat needs. It may need to be on a special care formula diet until it’s stomach becomes strong enough to handle proper, excellent cat food.

You prevent malnutrition by doing the research beforehand, and reading the labels on packages of cat food.
By feeding them a high-quality food, the cat will be more active, happy, healthy, affectionate and playful.

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