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?

  • @LANIK2000@lemmy.world
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    810 months ago

    Lol, our cat gets lots of random raw meat, yogurt, ice cream or really any leftovers, which often enough includes onions in the sauce, anything she doesn’t refuse to eat outright and she’s still surprisingly healthy at 15 years old.

    • @IamSparticles@lemmy.zip
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      610 months ago

      I think the main danger with raw meat is harmful bacteria (salmonela, listeria, e coli, etc). Basically the same things that make people sick if they’re present and we don’t cook the meat properly. They aren’t always present, but it’s kind of a gamble to keep feeding a cat raw meat.

      • @freeindv
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        Yeah I’ll definitely keep that in mind as something to watch out for in what my cat eats. You know, once he finally gets done eating 1,000 mice and comes inside for some extra food…

        • @IamSparticles@lemmy.zip
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          -110 months ago

          You do you. But just so you know, cats that are allowed to free range outside have a life expectancy, on average, about 1/3rd that of an indoor-only cat. Killing and eating wildlife is one of the reasons.

      • DrMango
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        310 months ago

        But how do animals without homes learn to cook their meat?

        • @HelixDab2@lemm.ee
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          310 months ago

          People that have been found in peat bogs are almost always heavily infested with intestinal parasites, and fecal material found at archeological sites show significant signs of parasitic infections as well, because even once we cooked food we often didn’t have acceptable food safety (or, y’know, refrigeration). Truth is that cats in the wild just constantly have tons of parasites and get sick a lot, and sometimes die from it.