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Bengals are obligated carnivours like other cats, but they are a breed extrimely close to their feline relatives, for that reason their stomach is 30% shorter than other cats, this means that their alimentation should be very similar if not the same to what felins eat in nature.
The most appropriate diet for bengals is the one that is based on raw meat; the BARF diet or Biologicaly Apropriate Raw Food.
Their diet should contein a high proportion of animal protein as long as they are not able to adapt to a low protein diet, and their organism is not structured to digest vegetable protein because in nature they are used to assume vegetable components in per-digested state trought their pray's stomach and intestine, there all the molecules of the vegetal components are "unrolled", for that reason we pefer not to feed our cats with any vegetables.
Their diet should contein a high proportion of animal protein as long as they are not able to adapt to a low protein diet, and their organism is not structured to digest vegetable protein because in nature they are used to assume vegetable components in per-digested state trought their pray's stomach and intestine, there all the molecules of the vegetal components are "unrolled", for that reason we pefer not to feed our cats with any vegetables.
Chicken, quails, turkey, and rabbit meat are the most used, all the meat have to be freezed at least 14 days before feeding or you can also put it in the blast chiller for some hours to kill dangerous verms.
for a complete diet, Begals should eat meat with bones and organ meat such as heart and stomach in case of poultry.
For cats the nutrition is very important because their organism produces only 9 amminoacids, so the restant 11 (essential amminoacids: arginine, methionine, histidine, phenylalanine, isoleucine, threonine, leucine, tryptophan, lysine, valine, and taurine) they assume with food, meanwhile humans produce 11 of all and only need 9.
for a complete diet, Begals should eat meat with bones and organ meat such as heart and stomach in case of poultry.
For cats the nutrition is very important because their organism produces only 9 amminoacids, so the restant 11 (essential amminoacids: arginine, methionine, histidine, phenylalanine, isoleucine, threonine, leucine, tryptophan, lysine, valine, and taurine) they assume with food, meanwhile humans produce 11 of all and only need 9.
ATTENTION: The raccomandations below apply only to cats fed a raw diet.
Since feeding live animals is not pratical, it is advisable to add supplements to their diet, expecially for kittens under 18 months and for pregrant females.
Since feeding live animals is not pratical, it is advisable to add supplements to their diet, expecially for kittens under 18 months and for pregrant females.