Changing your cat's diet

Changing your cat's diet

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  How to change cat food

  There are a host of reasons why you may need to move your cat onto a new food. Nutritional requirements alter as cats get older; a medical condition might require a special diet; or you may acquire a new pet and want to move from their previous diet onto a new one.

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  Food allergies

  True cases of food allergy are unusual and involve a reaction to often only tiny amounts of an ingredient in a particular food, which triggers an allergic inflammatory response. Diagnosis is very difficult, involves diet trials (see below) and there is no specific test available. The signs of an allergy are not specific and may indicate another problem.

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  Special diets

  Over the past 20 years huge progress has been made in the development of highly specialised pet food formulas. These range from weight loss and sensitive digestion recipes, to diets designed specifically to help manage conditions such as diabetes, urinary or skin problems. Some formulations work to support treatment over a limited period of time, but others can help your pet for life.

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