Whether you raise cats or dogs, you must have heard of probiotics, or even used probiotics for your pets. This is because pet probiotics are indeed versatile and very useful. For example, when cats and dogs have diarrhea, pet doctors usually prescri...
Whether you raise cats or dogs, you must have heard of probiotics, or even used probiotics for your pets. This is because pet probiotics are indeed versatile and very useful.
For example, when cats and dogs have diarrhea, pet doctors usually prescribe some probiotics to help cats and dogs restore their gastrointestinal function.
Even when cats and dogs have indigestion, pet doctors will prescribe some probiotics to cats and dogs to help regulate their stomachs.
And when some cats and dogs have bad breath, pet doctors will also prescribe some probiotics to assist in the treatment of cats and dogs’ bad breath.
Therefore, probiotics with universal properties have even become a must-have item for modern poop scoopers. Even some cats and dogs who often have soft stools or have weak gastrointestinal function need to take some probiotics every day.
However, the author found that most people use probiotics in the wrong way. Wrong use methods will cause the probiotics to lose their effectiveness and waste money!
Why probiotics work
Before talking about the correct way to use probiotics for cats and dogs, we must first understand how pet probiotics work.
You can carefully observe the probiotics. You will find that the probiotics are in the form of powder or small granules. But I want to tell you that these powdered or small granular pet probiotics are dormant active bacteria. The bacteria will only be activated when they encounter water.
After these activated active bacteria enter the body of cats and dogs, they will balance the number of bacterial flora in the gastrointestinal tract of cats and dogs, thereby achieving the purpose of restoring the gastrointestinal function of cats and dogs.
So we need to correctly take probiotics for cats and dogs according to the working principle of pet probiotics, so as to maximize the effect of probiotics.
First: Probiotics are afraid of hot water
As we mentioned in the working principle of pet probiotics, probiotics are powdered dormant bacteria that need to be diluted with water before being administered to cats and dogs.
But please remember, never use hot water to digest probiotics, because most bacteria are afraid of high temperatures. If you use hot water to digest probiotics for cats and dogs, the probiotics will lose their effect because the bacteria will be scalded to death by hot water. Therefore, it is best to use warm water when digesting pet probiotics!
Second: Probiotics are afraid of oxygen
Pet probiotics look like powder, but are actually tiny active bacteria. However, these bacteria are very afraid of oxygen. Therefore, after digesting the probiotics for cats and dogs, it is best to let the cats and dogs take them within 15 minutes. Once the bacteria are exposed to the air for too long, the bacteria will be killed by oxygen! Probiotics can also lose their effectiveness.
If the cat or dog does not want to eat, you can use a feeder to pour it in. Remember not to exceed 15 minutes.
Third: Probiotics are afraid of gastric acid
When feeding cats and dogs probiotics, for the sake of convenience, many people will mix the probiotics with the cat and dog food, so that the cats and dogs can eat the probiotics when they eat food.
But probiotics are very afraid of gastric acid. After cats and dogs eat food, their heartbeats will speed up, and the heart will concentrate the blood in the stomach. Then the stomach will secrete a large amount of gastric acid to digest the food. At this time, the probiotics mixed with the food will also be killed by gastric acid.
Therefore, the most appropriate time to feed probiotics to cats and dogs is 15 minutes after the cats and dogs have eaten food, rather than mixed with food.
The above three mistakes are the most common mistakes made by pet owners when giving probiotics to cats and dogs. However, these mistakes will cause a large number of probiotic flora in pets to fail, greatly reducing the effect of probiotics, and making all owners spend money in vain.
So when feeding cats and dogs probiotics, you should pay attention to the correct method, so that you can get twice the result with half the effort!
