It should be fine. In fact, it's often recommended to give yogurt to cats
who are on antibiotics to help keep their guts working properly.

The only time it would be an issue would be if a kitty ate lots of yogurt,
then they'd have the same problem as too much of any dairy product.

Dan

I give rice yogurt; non dairy and rice pudding to my furballs all the time.
It helps their digestive tract and keeps their coats nice and shiny  plus
gives me a chance to eat my ice cream in peace

my vet says if they tolerate it and don't get sick they should get all they
want as it does good things for their insides, Lee
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It's good for them, and they seem to love it.  Dante regards yogurt as a big
treat:
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Our Ishmael and Ishtar came from a vet's household at about 12 weeks and
they'd started them eating yogurt as soon as they were weaned.  18 years
later, Ishtar still tries to steal it whenever she gets a chance.

If we left yogurt pots lying about when they still had yogurt left
inside, the two of them would do their best to get it out.  Usually
this led to them both blundering backwards round the kitchen with
pots stuck on their heads.  Their son Zeke (one scarily bright cat)
worked out how to extract the yogurt by scraping with his paw, but
his parents never caught on.

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Kyla =^. .^= wrote:

Cats tend to be lactose intolerant - thats what gives them 'the trots' if
they consume things like milk, cream or icecream. The organisms that turn
milk into yoghurt break down the lactose, so a well made yoghurt shold have
little or no lactose in them. The same organisms that break down the lactose
in milk to make it yoghurt also do the same thing (and more) in our guts,
thye are considered 'good' bacteria. Dunno if cat-gut flora is the same as
human-gut flora, but I can't see unflavoured yoghurt doing any harm to a
kitty in moderation. Just watch those falvourings and sweeteners - thats
where the trouble may lie if any.

Yowie

Yoghurt is VERY good for cats, the same as for humans. It's not likely
to make them sick because it has much less lactose in it than milk,
and it has the 'good bacteria' to help their digestion. The girls line
up to lick out our yoghurt containers for us...

Cherokee loved yogurt too. It's fine for a cat as long as he isn't
lactose-intolerant.
If mosey *was* lactose-intolerant, you'd know it because he would
vomit right
after eating it.

Sherry

We went through this with my first love, my RB sweetheart Fritzie. He was
diabetic for the last 4 or 5 years of his long and venerable life. One day,
Louie and I both down with the flu, we had no energy to cook and called for
delivery from the Indian joint around the corner. Among the other simple
dishes we got was a tub of plain, homemade yogurt, no fruit or anything; in
curry houses it's typical to serve plain yogurt to balance the heat, kind of
like the blue cheese with our most worshiped food, the Noble Chicken Wing. We
had our backs turned for the barest of moments when Fritzie dove into the tub
and started chowing on that yogurt like a starving man. We freaked and called
the vet, who said it was one of the few rare treats we could give him with
clear conscience. The processing of milk into yogurt breaks down whatever
causes cats to ride their porcelain buses. and in fact improves the
consistency and, if you will, delivery of the stools. And the plain stuff has
next to nothing that could whack up a case of feline diabetes.

As our present four have never developed the taste for dairy products, none
of them have taken to yogurt. Brandy likes saltines and Stosh can't get
enough of the smell of Ben-Gay, but then those two are just weird.

Blessed be,
Baha