What happens if the dog eats the cat's food?

Let's see why the dog should not eat cat food. Who lives with a dog and cat often has a problem: convincing the dog not to eat cat's food. The problem is that, on average, the dog is more greed, the cat has a habit of eating little and often, and many times the food is in the container: the dog can find extra food and eat everything can. There are always dogs go to the cat's bowl for their food even if they are not full since they have a very developed sense of smell. If they have that habit they can end up eating twice their ration in many occasions.

What happens to my dog?

First we must understand that the cat is not a small dog: there are parameters in its physiology and anatomy that are completely different. This implies that nutritional requirements are different. What the owners do not always understand, in fact, sometimes they cannot even understand the fact that cats and dogs not only have different nutritional needs between them, but also have different nutritional needs with respect to human beings. This means that there is a reason why commercial and cats commercial diets have different formulations. All this means that the dog should not eat cat's food.  If the dog eats once a feed croquette for cats, nothing happens, as long as the dog in question has no allergic disease, skin diseases, the intestine and in particular of the pancreas. In this case, any food that is different from your feed for specific dogs can cause that the symptoms of these ailments appear. However, if every day the dog eats cat food, even a small amount, in the long run it becomes problematic. This is because I feed for cats has a greater amount of protein that I think for dogs, on the other hand, the cat is a carnivorous animal, while the dog is an omnivorous that tends to be carnivore. This greater charging of repeated protein throughout the days can cause problems in both the intestinal tract and above all, in the kidney. In addition to the fact that minerals and vitamins are formulated for the cat and therefore are not in line with the feed for dogs.

To do?

First, you have to teach the dog not to eat anything around and on the ground. This is a fundamental point in education that each owner must teach their dog: having a dog does not mean giving it only love, it means educating and giving love. If you cannot prevent the dog with the cat for the cat, you can try to feed them in separate rooms, but the problem here is that the cat likes to eat little and often of its bowl, so in fact, the problem would persist. The other alternative is to exploit the agility of the feline: place the container in a place superior to that which can easily access the cat, but cannot be reached by the dog.