Digestive Support Cat
Health Benefits
- Limitation of the solicitation of the digestive tract (high energy density and high digestibility)
- Digestive immunity (Digest Plus Complex: clay, probiotics, prebiotics, fibres, butyrate and nucleotides)
- Maintenance of food intake (high appetite: animal proteins and fats)
- Limiting the number of food allergens (free of beef, gluten, corn, wheat, soy, egg, fish, dairy products)
- Compensation for losses (high energy density and increased drink intake: protein and sodium)
Available sizes:
- 1.5 kg
- 3 kg
Dogs and cats are carnivores regardless of their health status. The VETERINARY HPM Clinical Diets are based on a formulation high in protein and low in carbohydrate (HP-LC), of which 90% of the protein is of animal origin.
Composition :
Dehydrated pork and poultry proteins*, rice*, animal fats, minerals, hydrolysed pork and poultry proteins*, beet pulp, lignocellulose, linseed, brewers yeast (source of betaglucan and nucleotide), fish oil*, psyllium fibre (Plantago (L.) spp.), fructo-oligosaccarides, hydrolysed crustacean (source of chitosan), calcium butyrate, Lactobacillus acidophilus.
*highly digestible ingredients
Analytical Constituents :
(% as fed)
VETERINARY HPM® formulas do not contain any artificial colours or flavours.
| Analytical constituents (% as fed) |
|
|---|---|
| Moisture | 5,5 % |
| Protein | 44 % |
| Animal to vegetal protein ratio | 92/08 |
| Fat | 21 % |
| Minerals | 8,5 % |
| Crude Fibre | 3,5 % |
| Total dietary fibre | 6 % |
| NFE * | 17,5 % |
| Starch | 13 % |
| Calcium | 1,3 % |
| Phosphorus | 1,1 % |
| Sodium | 0,9 % |
| Potassium | 0,8 % |
| Omega-6 | 3,5 % |
| Omega-3 | 1 % |
| EPA + DHA | 0,3 % |
| ME** calculated | 418 kcal/100g |
| ME** measured in vivo | 419 kcal/100g |
| * Nitrogen Free Extract: Carbohydrates ** Metabolisable energy |
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| Functional Ingredients | |
|---|---|
| Bentonite | 5 g/kg |
| Killed lactobacilli | 7 mg/kg |
| Butyrate | 300 mg/kg |
| Nucleotides | 560 mg/kg |
| Beta Glucan | 500 mg/kg |
| Chitosan | 800 mg/kg |
| Vitamins and trace elements | |
|---|---|
| Vitamin A | 19 600 IU/kg |
| Vitamin D3 | 1 700 IU/kg |
| Vitamin E | 610 mg/kg |
| Vitamin K3 | 0,22 mg/kg |
| Vitamin B1 | 11,2 mg/kg |
| Vitamin B2 | 8 mg/kg |
| Vitamin B3 | 113,4 mg/kg |
| Vitamin B5 | 14,5 mg/kg |
| Vitamin B6 | 7,6 mg/kg |
| Vitamin B8 | 0,15 mg/kg |
| Vitamin B9 | 1,9 mg/kg |
| Vitamin B12 | 0,053 mg/kg |
| Choline | 1 760 mg/kg |
| Taurine | 2 460 mg/kg |
| Copper | 12 mg/kg |
| Iodin | 0,4 mg/kg |
| Zinc | 126 mg/kg |
It is advisable to follow the ration table and to provide fresh drinking water.
| Body Weight (kg) | Daily Ration (g/day) | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Overweight | Normal* | Recovering/underweight | |
| 2 | 20 | 25 | 25 |
| 3 | 30 | 35 | 40 |
| 4 | 40 | 45 | 55 |
| 5 | 50 | 55 | 70 |
| 6 | 60 | 70 | 80 |
| 7 | 70 | 80 | 95 |
| 8 | 80 | 90 | 110 |
| 9 | 90 | 100 | 125 |
| 10 | 100 | 115 | 135 |
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*Adult dog with optimal body weight and normal physical activity The daily ration is based on the cat's current bodyweight, and must be adjusted every week during recovery and every month in the medium/long term. |
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- Can I feed my kitten with a home-made diet?
The food that kittens receive throughout their first year must obviously provide energy and materials to build the skeleton, the muscles and all the new tissues. But nutrition doesn't stop there: it must also help kittens to develop a fully functioning nervous system and effective immune system. Any deficiency in essential nutrients (those who cannot be synthesized by the animal's body) during this very delicate period may affect the cat's future health.
Many recipes developed by veterinary nutritionists are available for owners who wish to prepare a nutritionally balanced home-made diet for their kitten. However, it is illusory to succeed in respecting all the required conditions because the nutritional balance of a household ration is subject to various hazards. The owner will always find it difficult to follow the recipe exactly, the necessary ingredients are not always available, and the nutritional composition of the ingredients can vary considerably depending on the origin of the product. When preparing a home-made diet, no laboratory analysis can verify the nutritional composition of the raw materials used!
Therefore, even when accompanied by the distribution of a mineral and vitamin supplement, home-made diets for cats often show deficiencies in several nutrients such as choline, iron and thiamine. In addition, cats cannot synthesize vitamin D as humans do (via exposure to UV rays) and this vitamin must be provided daily in the diet.
- Can I feed my kitten with a vegetarian diet?
The cat is a strict carnivore, which means that certain nutrients it needs cannot be provided by a plant-based diet. Such diets can cause major nutritional deficiencies with serious consequences on health. For this reason, a kitten should never be fed a vegetarian diet.
- Can I feed my kitten with raw meat diets?
Raw meat diets (red meat or chicken) are very popular among certain cat breeders but raw meat diets are deficient in calcium and phosphorus. The Calcium/Phosphorus ratio is totally inappropriate for the feline species, especially in terms of bone growth. Such a diet can cause major nutritional deficiencies with serious consequences on health. For example, when fed exclusively a raw meat diet, the kitten is exposed to the risk of pathologic fractures following minor trauma.
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