nutrition - cats and dogs Flashcards

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What are the natural feeding behaviours of cats?

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Strict carnivore
Eat lots of small meals in a day (12-20 meas)
Takes 24 hours to replenish 6% of bodyweight

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What are the natural feeding behaviours of dogs?

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Voluntary omnivores
Can eat daily energy needs in 1 meal
Replenish 6% dehydration in 1 hour

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Why are dogs better at digesting carbohydrate than cats?

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  • Pancreatic amylase = 3 times higher than in cats
  • Better able to adapt to high levels of starch
  • Can regulate rate at which SI absorbs monosaccharides in response to varying carbohydrate levels, cats cannot.
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Why do cats require more niacin (vitamin B3) than dogs?

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  • Don’t convert tryptophan to niacin (vit B3)
  • found in high quantities in meat/fish
  • Cats require >4x more niacin than dogs
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Why do cats require more niacin (vitamin B3) than dogs?

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  • Don’t convert tryptophan to niacin (vit B3)
  • found in high quantities in meat/fish
  • Cats require >4x more niacin than dogs
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What species requires dietary preformed vitamin A?

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  • Cats don’t have ß-carotenase enzyme
  • Preformed vitamin A is only found in meat products
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What species needs a dietary source of vitamin D?

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  • Dogs need vitamin D.
  • Get rickets without dietary vitamin D
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What species needs a dietary source of vitamin D?

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  • Dogs need vitamin D.
  • Get rickets without dietary vitamin D
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Why do cats need taurine?

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  • Cats cannot synthesise taurine from amino acids, dogs can
  • Needed as an intermediate step in bile formation
    no taurine = no bile salts
  • only found in meat
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Why do cats need high quality protein?

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If low quality - affects microbes in GIT and results in loss of taurine.

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Why do cats need dietary arachidonic acid?

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  • Cats don’t have the enzyme to convert linoleic acid to arachidonic acid
  • Dogs do
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What is the difference between soluble and insoluble fibre?

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Soluble = fermented as a food source for bacteria in large intestine (e.g. cereal grain’s cell walls)

Insoluble = provides bulk to help move waste products out of intestine.

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What is the difference between soluble and insoluble fibre?

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Soluble = fermented as a food source for bacteria in large intestine (e.g. cereal grain’s cell walls)

Insoluble = provides bulk to help move waste products out of intestine.

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What are the 3 reasons that dogs need fibre in their diet?

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  • Weight Management
    *Food high in fibre = dogs feel fuller
  • Better stool quality (well formed)
  • Assists anal sac gland
    Bulkier stool = more pressure on anal sac glands = help express themselves with no issues
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How do you calculate the carbohydrate content of a pet food?

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Write % of protein, fat, fibre, moisture and ash from the packet
Add up + take the total away from 100.

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