That pregnancy, childbirth and development of kittens proceeded without complications, it is necessary to remember the raised requirement of a pregnant cat for nutrients. In the first 2 weeks of pregnancy feeding should correspond to requirements of an adult animal or can be increased at weak individuals by 10 %. Since third week of pregnancy this requirement increases in 1,5-2 times, and from seventh week and before sorts - decreases. It is connected with size of kittens assumed and specific to different breeds, and also with temperament of a cat. In pregnancy at her the requirement for fibers, vitamins, mineral substances and microcells increases. It is necessary so to balance a diet that a cat not to overfeed. In process of increase in term of pregnancy the daily fodder diet should be divided on 3-5 feeding.

Feeding лактирующей cats increases depending on feeding and age of kittens in 3-4 times in comparison with norm. Thus daily reception of a forage can exceed possibilities of digestive system and then the cat uses stocks of own organism. After отъема kittens loss of weight of mother is quickly restored.

With milk of mother kittens receive fiber, fat, mineral substances and vitamins, therefore лактирующей cats it is necessary to include forages in a diet with the raised maintenance of these nutritious components. Consider that milk of a cat contains in 2 times of more solid, calories and a protein, than the cow milk, and the fat maintenance almost same. Recognizing that at a cat in 1 l of milk contains 70 г a protein, she should receive in addition 120,4 г the squirrel. If the cat with live weight 5 kg has 6 kittens with average weight on 40 г to her diet in 300 kcal it is necessary to add on 41,8 kcal on a kitten that as a whole will make 550 kcal a day. With increase in age of kittens and according to additional reception of a forage reduce quantity of calories and a diet for the cat that after отъема young growth it was possible to pass to a normal food allowance.

Feeding of growing kittens begins by them which contains necessary antibodies with reception of a colostrum and causes normal development. After 3 weeks of parent milk doesn't suffice, and kittens can show anxiety, peep and demand food. At this time they are recommended to be fed up овсяной a flour dissolved with integral cow milk with addition of cream and an egg (all should be mixed it in homogeneous weight). A mix pour in a flat bowl from which kittens willingly will eat it in the quantity depending on milk available for a cat. With age increase an additional forage for kittens enrich small cut or scrolled through a meat grinder in the beginning boiled, and then crude meat, fish, eggs with a small amount of dry yeast. Thus watch a variety of a diet that in the future to exclude accustoming to monotonous food.

The requirement for mineral substances and vitamins is satisfied at the expense of introduction in a diet of grated crude fruit and vegetables, a bone flour or corresponding preparations. In a forage it is possible to add spinach, crude meat or mineral mixes. Shortly before отъема kittens the additional forage should cover completely all their growing requirement for energy and nutrients and on the structure to correspond to a diet of adult animals in order to avoid sharp change of a forage. Requirement of growing kittens for energy and nutrients considerably above, than at adult animals, therefore for reduction of quantity of a forage demanded a day it is necessary to use is easy-digested and biologically высокоценный a forage. On reaching kittens of age of 3 months they are fed with 6 times a day, from 4 to 5 - 4-5, from 6 to 9 - 3-4, from 9 till 12 months - 1-2 times a day. For the purpose of stimulation of change of teeth kittens are recommended to give the veal bones.

Sometimes in cases of an acute shortage of milk (at occurrence of a mastitis or as a result of death of mother, and also for other reasons) there is a necessity of artificial bringing up of kittens. Then it is necessary to replace parent milk with a dairy mix. At use of integral cow milk to his four parts add one part of the shaken up chicken fiber. The mix of the cow milk with dried milk with addition of vitamins A and D is applied also.

At 2-day age to a kitten feed a milk substitute through everyone 2 hours (and at night too).

Till 5th day at day feeding with an interval in 2 hours, it is possible to feed kittens from 3rd through everyone for 3 h, and from 5th day - only everyone 4 hours at night. A milk substitute heat up to 30 ° With and give from 100-ml of a small bottle with a rubber dummy. The general daily quantity of a substitute of milk distribute in regular intervals. The day diet of a kitten in weight of 120 g at use of a substitute of milk is made 21 Before each feeding by him necessarily should be equated to the increasing weight of a kitten (80,120 g in a week). From 3rd week of kittens gradually feed up a firm forage (meat, fish and etc.) From flat ware, ie start to feed on a diet of growing young growth.

At feeding of growing old cats it is necessary to consider that connected with the years dying off of cages, a delay of proliferation and aging of bodies conduct to digestion and absorption infringement. At such cats the bad dental health also is often observed. During this period of life the requirement for calories decreases and raises requirement for a protein, mineral substances, microcells and vitamins. However it first of all concerns the castrated or sterilized growing old animals, but not cats who, despite the age, are still used for cultivation and at the reduced ability to an absorption need a considerable quantity of a high-quality and easily digested forage. The daily diet of growing old cats should be divided for 2-3 portions, ie such animals feed more often, without supposing unusual change of a forage. It is better not to include difficultly digested ballast substances, bones of animals and fishes in a forage. Appetite deterioration during this period of life of a cat can be prevented injections of vitamin of sexual hormones.

To avoid adiposity or an exhaustion of a growing old cat, it is necessary to feed her correctly, without forgetting about an optimum parity between portions of a forage and loading. It is possible to consider the balanced feeding of a cat corresponding to requirements as a basis of preservation of her health and efficiency (at cultivation).

Cats often have a vitamin and mineral insufficiency, and also insufficiency in separate nutrients because of a monotonous diet or refusal of other forage at known willfulness of a cat. The lack of a protein - vitamin A and a complex of vitamins of group of V. Otsutstvie of a protein and group vitamins badly affects In influences immunity. Shortage of vitamin of Ajv of smaller degree of vitamin "With" reduces natural resistance of superficial cages, especially gastroenteric path.

From the specific phenomena of insufficiency at cats it is necessary to name illnesses of bone system which start to develop at unilateral and exclusive feeding by meat or fish (without cartilages, bones) and it is rare - at deficiency of vitamin D. The real rickets at cats (unlike dogs) meets very seldom and because of small requirement for vitamin D can be caused by too big doses of calcium at the minimum doses of phosphorus.

The organism of a cat isn't capable to synthesize vitamin A from containing in vegetative components of a forage of provitamins, therefore at his lack there are diseases of a skin and an eye, defects of bones and infringement of sexual function. Because of a lack of vitamin E and surplus of nonsaturated fat acids, for example at exclusive feeding by canned food of certain fishes, a considerable quantity of consumed herring oil or cod-liver oil, arise a fatty jaundice, polyneuritis and infringement of nervous activity (an anorexia, mydriasis, an ataxy, spinal hyperesthesia, infringement of reflexes, ventrafleksiya heads). At insufficiency of thiamine, for example owing to feeding the fodder canned food developed by the industry in which thiamin it is destroyed by hot sterilization, also observe diseases of cats. Diseases of kidneys with urolithiasis occur because of accumulation oksalovoi acids at shortage of a pyridoxine owing to feeding temperaturo-steady ready fodder canned food without vitamin additives. Cat's pellagra with language erosion it is observed because of deficiency of nicotinic acid owing to absence at a cat of ability to synthesize her from amino acid tryptophan.

The opposite phenomenon of illnesses of insufficiency are the poisonings caused long feeding of a crude liver (chronic A-gipervitaminoz). Owing to A-gipervitaminoza arises deforming cervical spondylosis ankylosis with formation and the subsequent clinical signs of painful movements, especially heads (poses "kangaroo"), abnormal movement and the limited passive mobility of cervical department of a backbone. Thus animals, despite good reception of a forage, grow thin. On a backbone and on proximal joints of extremities are marked ankylosing changes of bones. At addition in a forage of cod-liver oil or preparations of vitamin D the intoxication this vitamin, as requirement for him at a cat minimum (50-100 PED in day) is possible.