so you want to change your pets diet you want to start a new diet for your dog or
cat but how do you go about doing this to make sure that they will definitely
eat it and you're not left with an unwanted bag of food hi I'm dr. Alex
Avery from ourpetshealth.com helping you and your pets live a healthier
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just like this one so there are a large number of reasons why we might want to
change our dog or our cat's diet they might have developed a condition such as
kidney disease and you want to start feeding a specific prescription
diet as recommended by your vet they might have aged and so you want to
switch them from a dog maintenance diet to a senior diet from a kitten diet to
an adult diet you might have realized that they're overweight and you want to
change them to a diet that's better to help them lose that weight and become
much healthier or you might just want to change and feed them something that you
think might be a little bit healthier and better quality for them so
whatever the reason these next tips will help you transition and change onto a
new diet for your dog or cat so to start with all diets differ in how much we
should feed them and so we need to work out how much you should feed of your new
diet so the first starting point for this is
going to be the packaging material so they generally have a list and a
recommendation of amount to feed depending on what the weight of your dog
or cat is so while this is a good starting point I do feel that they often
overestimate the amount that needs to be fed and especially if your pet is
overweight then you will need to reduce that a little bit now I just have a very
good calculator and if you sign up to my newsletter which is linked down below
then that will help you work out what your pets ideal weight is and how much
you should feed them of any diet whichever one you choose to feed so once
we've worked out how much we need to be feeding the next step is to gradually
transition them over a period of 7 to 14 days although if you've got a fussy
eater then you know potentially taking a little bit longer maybe 3 to 4 weeks
would be a good idea and what we do is we slowly increase the amount of the new
diet that's being fed while at the same time reducing the amount of the old diet
so for the first few days we might want to feed 1/4 of the new diet mixed
with 3/4 of the old diet make sure that that's all mixed in and that will
mean that you're cat probably won't even notice that they're eating anything
different as time goes on then we just slowly increase that proportion so maybe
after a week we start feeding 50/50 so half of the new diet half of the old
diet so that by the time we reach our end points us let's say two weeks then
100% of what we're feeding is the new diet so changing a diet this way just
makes it very likely that your pet probably won't even notice the
difference in what they're being fed so another way that can help change your
pets diet is to actually start feeding the new diet as treats now obviously
this will only really worked if you're feeding a biscuit based diet but what
you can do is when you're out some walks when you're playing is just have a
handful of biscuits handy and give them as treats so that way your dog will
associate them with with really having fun and with a good time and it's more
likely to then eat them when you put them in their bowl if you do this
alongside that transition then the chances are that if your pets not fussy
and not got any other problems than they will transition to that new diet without
a problem so if at the end of the transition period your dog or cat is
just not eating their new diet then it might be time to change onto a different
diet of a similar make similar brand or with a similar purpose we all have our
personal preferences and what foods we like to eat and our dogs and cats can
sometimes be the same although the vast majority will eat what you want them to
if we just take things nice and slowly so if you've got a particularly fussy
dog or cat and you really do struggle to get them to be anything different then
I've got another video link down below that's all about how to get your fussy
dog to eat and a lot of those tips will also apply to cats so check that video
out if you really think that your dog or your cat will struggle to change diet so
I hope that's given you a few ideas and will help you transition diet smoothly
doing that smooth transition also means you're highly unlikely to get any tummy
upsets vomiting or diarrhea from happening as well so until next time i'm
dr. alex from our pets health because they're family




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