Found this one online while browsing for what cats shouldn’t eat. However I feel like this area is quite controversial and opinionated. Also feels like half the websites are written by AI and riddled with ads. So if anyone has a good source as to what cats should avoid then let me know.
Anyways, I found this nice illustration, but wanted to hear with you peeps whether you have any experience regarding these food items.
Also what’s your take on milk/sour milk for cats? My previous cat loved it so much, and she aged until she was 17 years old, and never seemed to have a problem with it. Also asked the vet at the time and she said it was OK. However every other website I visit tell to never give milk(dairy) to cats. So which is it? Does it just depend on the cat?
My cat loves cheese
Mine too!
Im noticing a distinct lack of catfood on this chart…
#FeelTheBernCats
Salami is not healthy for cats.
Sure, but they can still have a little, as a treat
Exactly!
That man has been on the right side of every issue forever.
He really has been! I know the comment is based on a joke, but when I learned who Bernie Sanders was when he was running for president I had a “oh shit it’s that guy!” moment.
Pretty much any documentary I had watched about any random topic where there was a segment about US government involvement he was always on the right side of whatever was being discussed.
Just imagine what the world would be like if he had won the primary instead of Hillary.
Nope, wait, don’t do it. I just tried and it makes the real world even MORE depressing.
Fuck the DNC.
Honestly, it probably wouldn’t have made a difference. The ‘Bernie Bros’ that voted for Trump were largely a myth, not really enough to swing the election, and he’s far enough left (as far as American politics go) that it probably would have ended up with Trump winning more votes from Dems that claims to be centrists.
Aside from that, he’s far enough to the left of most Dems that he probably wouldn’t have been able to get the Speaker to introduce any legislation he favored, so it would have been the same kind of compromise bullshit that Dems always fall for.
Now, Gore? If SCOTUS had let the count proceed instead of calling it for Bush prematurely? Yeah, the world would be a very, very different place.
It’s when I gave up on US politics. If only it was such that Hillary won… and not that DNC actively conspired to make that happen.
As messed up and anti-democratic so many things are in the US leading to “pick one of two things”. The whole system is fundamentally broken when the selection of those two things is corrupt.
But… when a person I wouldn’t trust to be mentally suited to pack a bag of groceries* or park a car*, is elected president, and gets to pick several supreme court justices… The world isn’t laughing at the US. They were laughing at the thought of Trump being in he primaries. They’re deeply concern that a complete fuckwit ended up in charge, and what that might lead to.
Democracy (i.e. the system of governance) requires informed voters. GOP (the political party) requires uninformed voters.
The only way you can vote Republican or think that the orange baboon can be entrusted with anything more important than throw feces, is one of two thing (or both): 1) you are an idiot / uninformed 2) you are morally corrupt
*: this isn’t a put down directed at people who do these things, but that it requires some mental function in order to not crash the car, or steal some groceries… and I would be equally comfortable with Trump in that regard, as with a 6 year old. Which is to say: not at all. Which puts in perspective what I think of him being president.
But salami contains garlic, doesn’t it?
There are different kinds of salami.
Ah, I didn’t know that. Where I live, they kind of always do (or did, when I was a child and still ate meat) but Wikipedia days the Italian salami typically doesn’t have it.
That shows the limits of this picture.
Why can’t they have raw chicken assuming it’s been deboned? They would naturally eat chickens in the wild and I pretty sure they’re not cooking it first. I’ve given my cats scraps of raw chicken (along with other meats) my whole life and it was never an issue.
I love the “pretty sure” here
Always hedge your bets. This is the Internet. You might say something like “cats don’t cook food” and then someone will come along and reply with a picture of a cat grilling a hot dog.
I think the concern is pathogens from the meat.
Why even deboned? Dogs will crunch the whole thing and a cooked chicken bone can splinter (I heard even bird bones raw are okay) but won’t a cat pick the meat off?
Yeah don’t give them raw chicken because cats that kill chickens in the wild will always cook them first.
I stand here defeated. You my sir are the true king 🙇♂️
Fresh kill is a far cry from raw meat days after butchering which is only deemed safe on the condition that it gets cooked.
Animals in the wild die of food poisoning all the time; that doesn’t mean that we should have our pets doing the same. It’s a bit like playing Russian roulette, the risk is better than outright starving, but it isn’t riskless.
Also, I’m not sure but I think that battery farming increases the proliferation of salmonella.
Don’t let your cat eat lithium
My cat is bipolar, OK? Her vet prescribed lithium and she’s getting it! Otherwise she becomes like the feline equivalent of that squirrel from Over The Edge.
It’s bc of how our meat is processed/what bacteria may be one it. Cats are not immune to salmonella nor most other foodborne pathogens.
Yeah, but that’s not a chicken-specific thing. The actual infographic is utter horseshit, of course. Especially with recommending so many greens, as if cats can do more with that than pass them unprocessed and then demand more food as they expelled non-trivial amounts of energy on it.
oh yeah fs, the infographic sucks ass but i thought id chime in on specifically why chicken sucks
It kind of is. You know how it’s fine to eat a rare steak, but not rare chicken? It’s because of higher contamination levels.
yeah. until it eats the wrong chicken, gets sick and dies.
some stuff is fine until it isnt.
I used to feed my cat raw quails. He loved them. I don’t know how he is doing now as my ex got the cat and I kept the dog.
Chicken bones??
Had a dog once years ago who managed to get at a piece of bone from KFC. The bone got stuck in her jaw and it was horrifying trying to get it out while she was choking on it.
My cats will sometimes steal our chicken and the chicken bone/meat connected to the bone gets stuck in the teeth and they walk around with a chicken bone hanging from their mouth until we can get it off.
It can be difficult because they kinda panic.
Because chicken bones are small, and when they break, they tend to splinter, and the sharp edges can cause damage.
Having said that, my grandma’s cats in the countryside have been living eating raw chicken scraps, leftover human food, and chicken bones. They have never been to the vet and never tasted canned cat food. They’re fine.
Worth noting as well that cooked chicken bones are significantly more dangerous than raw ones
Yeah I think the raw chicken thing also varies from country to country depending on what the local agriculture is like. I’m in Australia, we’ve fed our cats raw chicken necks every day for 10+ years and they’ve never had any issues with it. It’s great for their teeth.
I understand some countries’ poultry industries have more pathogens that are potentially harmful. Cats obviously evolved to eat raw meat, just not farmed raw meat, so it depends on how clean the farms are.
Chicken bones don’t just break, they often shatter in sharp pieces that can cause internal damage if swallowed.
I think that is only true for cooked chicken bone. In nature cats eat birds all the time without a problem
I’m not too informed on that, but that table looks sensible as long as you keep in mind that their diet is mostly meat-based, so watch out for amounts. And it fits well what I’ve read across the internet.
The main problem regarding dairy is the lactose; it isn’t poisonous but they don’t digest it well. So dairy in small amounts as a treat is probably fine, just don’t overdo it. Soured milk is probably better than plain milk, as the souring likely consumes some of the lactose. Or yoghurt, one of my cats is crazy for that.
Past that, as a general rule:
- OK: gourds (pumpkin, cucumber, watermelon)
- OK: apple, banana
- never OK: alium (onion, leek, garlic) is outright poisonous
- treat it as “not OK” by default: other botanical fruits, unless you know that it’s OK
- OK, but don’t overdo it: non-meat animal protein (cheese, eggs)
- probably OK in small bits, don’t overdo it: if it has too much sugar, salt, or fat (ice cream, peanut butter)
- not OK: if it could give you food poisoning (raw chicken)
- not OK: if it could mechanically harm you once chewed (chicken bones)
Meanwhile, the cats in my neighborhood: b Pigeons? Food! Rats? Food!
Blessed be those vermin exterminators.
What about my cables, flip-flops and my backpack? Scratches seems to love eating these.
Dog food? Dogs like cat food. Are they not interchangeable? I haven’t ever seen a cat eat dog food now that I think about it.
Cat food is enriched with the amino acid taurine, which they can’t produce themselves. Dog food is not. Feeding cats exclusively on dog food will kill them eventually, via blindness and heart disease.
Not a disaster if they steal it from the dog once or twice, but it cannot be their long-term diet.
Yeah, it doesn’t really belong in the ‘no’ column. It’s not an appropriate cat food because it’s not nutritionally complete.
So it’s rather like how just eating bread or cornmeal that don’t have added vitamins will give you scurvy or pellagra. But obviously they’re not poisonous or anything and most of the world eats them without a problem.
As a barn cat owner, everything on that list goes down the cats. They are my cleanup crew. Especially chicken bones as I don’t trust the dogs with them.
No cat has ever choked on bones or become sick from eating scraps. If there are things like onions, they just don’t eat them. In fact none of my cats have ever died of anything other than being eaten by coyotes or run over by trucks 😥
Just listen to a vet instead. Cats can eat a lot of things, but they can process only very little. They’re carnivores through and through, and evolved to deal with a diet consisting entirely of small animals they’ve hunted down, but also all of them (not just the selectively removed meat parts we as humans consume).
Where does coffee feature on this list
ETA: this was fed to Crème Puff by her owner. Crème Puff is regarded as the longest lived domestic cat at 38 years.
Xanthines like the caffeine in coffee or the theobromine in chocolate are poisonous
Your cat drinks coffee???
our cat eats our dog food all the time. other than being a bit fat she’s fine
So what do you eat, if the cat eats your dog food?
We have human food too
Please try and transition your car to a gasoline diet, dog food is unhealthy for them :(
I have a solar cat that only gets 10 minutes of activity for every 4 hours left in direct sun.
Depending on the miles per kibble I might want to transition my car to dog food
While on paper the miles per kibble is higher with equal weight, as mentioned above it makes the car fat. With so much extra fat on the car, you ultimately end up with a lower miles per kibble as compared to the typical gasoline diet. Unhealthy!
The reason dog food is a no for cats isn’t because it’s harmful if they eat a kibble or two, but because dog food isn’t fortified with an amino acid cats need, taurine, so feeding a cat exclusively on dog food will result in a type of malnutrition in the cat.
https://www.petmd.com/blogs/nutritionnuggets/cat/dr-coates/2014/december/what-taurine-32287
she doesn’t exclusively eat it. she eats his biscuits now and then if I don’t put her food out fast enough…
