Iâm sorry, and maybe itâs because Iâm not living in the US, but Iâll call bullshit on roughly half of this list.
Yes, obviously cats should eat food thatâs properly made for them, but how shitty is your food production when you canât even feed your cat raw meat, when itâs basically all they eat in the wild?
Iâve had cats for running on 25 years now, completely ordinary European Shorthairs, and while we always do feed them vet-approved kibble, some other things do get snuck into their diet (basically all of this applies to our current 12 year old female):
- If weâre having fish, we donât get out of it with our kneecaps intact if we donât share.
- If weâre doing stuff with egg, we better get an extra one and whisk it together in a dish for them (whisking the egg is so they get the good stuff from the whites instead of ust eating the yellow).
- Meat, doesnât matter if itâs minced or trimmings, youâll get jumped if you try to avoid sharing (obviously, like for everyone else ever, avoid giving them stuff thatâs only fat, but not because itâll poison them, because itâs just unhealthy).
-You turn your back on that chicken, doesnât matter if itâs raw or cooked, itâs gonna get devoured.
- Youâre having tuna? Thereâs always something left over in the can. Scrape that out on a dish for them, or youâl be sleeping with the fishies (we donât just give them the can because they can cut themselves on the edges).
-Eating yogurt or any other dairy product? If you donât give them your bowl to lick clean afterwards, youâre gonna get holes glared in your skull.
Add to that their individual cat weirdnesses, like the one we had that liked cucumber, the ones that liked raisins, and our current one who loves jam, ketchup and will taste anything that smells edible, our cats eat things other than their kibble.
And Iâd like to repeat that Iâve had cats for 25 years now. Of course weâve lost some, but never to anything related to their diet. My 12 year old female, Gry, has personally eaten about half of these things that will supposedly poison your cat. Her only health problem was because she got hit by a car, broke a fang which made a tiny acces to the root, and 8 years later developed a root infection, and had to get the tooth pulled out.
We keep an eye on their litter boxes, we regularly check their gums and eyes, we pay attention if their fur loses luster, and our cats are fucking healthy. Whereâs the supposed poisoning from raw meat, dairy products, tuna, fish, eggs, even the occational raisin and very rare chocolate (not on purpose, obviously, but cats are fucking tricky if thereâs something they want)?
I think the bigger problem is the quality of said foods. Cats are more sensitive to a lot of things than we are, and if they are getting sick from foods you eat, even though they shouldnât, thatâs pretty worrying.
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