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Assuming it’s properly cooked and unseasoned, can Terra have a taste? It IS meat, after all, which is a cat’ natural food.
Those veterinarians would have a heart attack if they came to my house.I wouldn't have pork in the house, so there's no chance of this happening; but veterinarians recommend NOT giving any pork products to cats. Of course I agree with them. And "people food" is generally frowned on by them, too. Since I'm mostly vegan, the only "people food" they ever get is tuna juice or tuna oil from the occasional tin of tuna I use.
Yes, mine, too!Those veterinarians would have a heart attack if they came to my house.
Weird. Most by-products in cat food are pork.veterinarians recommend NOT giving any pork products to cats
There is a difference between giving pets random table scraps and supplementing their meals with healthy foods that we eat. Vegetables for example, are a GREAT addition to dog foods or as treats to get some variety in their diet and also if they need to lose weight or always seem hungry and you just don't want to give them more food. Your dog had Pancreatitis from fatty foods or fatty meats not just table scraps in general. By all means add some broccoli or carrots to the dogs diet, that is a great supplement or treat. I mean, when a dog is having diarrhea, the first thing any vet will tell you is to boil chicken and rice for them.I don't give my cats human food. My dog (I know not a cat but still speaks to differences in species ability to digest human foods) got pancreatitis and one possible culprit was table scraps. Since then I've never given table scraps to any animal.
I do know someone who swears by the fats from frying bacon as having helped her cat with hairballs. She gives the cat just a little of the liquefied fat and some lightly fried bacon (all natural, no nitrates, smoke flavoring or preserves) and swears by it. But personally no, my cats do not get people food unless I have raw fish.
Agree. Plus we don’t even know what the source of the chicken and rice in kibble is.Well said A Azazel , a lot of people don't get the difference between giving their pet random unhealthy bits of literally everything they eat, vs properly home feeding or supplementing quality pet food with healthy, nutritious, purposeful human foods. It happens often at work when we recommend boiled chicken and rice for sick pets and owners say "oh I don't feed human food" when that same chicken and rice is in so many dog and cat foods mutilated into a hard dry kibble... and that is perfectly ok lol. Makes no sense.
With all the junk and recalls of human food I would never give any human food to the cats. I never gave Pepper human food and had her for 23 years.
Well, it also needs to be considered that 'human food' consists of thousands, maybe millions, of products, whereas pet feed is probably in the hundreds. Also, human food is well-regulated, whereas the FDA, which is the regulating body of pet feed, is much less active in regulation, meaning there will be much fewer recalls.In the past year where I live only one pet food recall for pets and that was for dogs, in comparison to the 55 or more human food recalls that resulted in death.