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Cat Forum / Health and Behavior / March 2004canned fish
A friend feeds her cats both canned tuna and canned mackerel. Are there any precautions she should take? - like mercury in tuna How often to feed canned fish? Would fresh be better? duh... Maybe someone cam direct me to a website with more info on feline nutrition. TIA I assume you are referring to "people" food. If so, this is a bad idea. These foods don't contain the proper nutrition for a cat - mainly not enough taurine. The cats would eventually go blind and die with such a diet. They should be fed only cat food. -MIKE > I assume you are referring to "people" food. If so, this is a bad idea. > These foods don't contain the proper nutrition for a cat - mainly not > enough taurine. The cats would eventually go blind and die with such a > diet. They should be fed only cat food. Conversely, as a healthy part of a complete diet containing plenty of taurine, deep water fish such as mackerel is an excellent source of omega-3 essential fatty acids and as such makes a lovely snack or training treat for the deserving kitty. -Alison in OH > I assume you are referring to "people" food. If so, this is a bad idea. > These foods don't contain the proper nutrition for a cat - mainly not > enough taurine. The cats would eventually go blind and die with such a > diet. They should be fed only cat food. > > -MIKE Bullcrap. Don't listen to this fraud. This is the same type of person that cons you into believing that boys who exhibit signs of masculinity have ADD (another PC liberal hoax). You'd do better to put a life-or-death question to a fortune teller. Unbelievable. IBen G. After Iben's diatribe, you must know that what I stated was correct. -MIKE >From: k k fake@nospam.hbci.com >A friend feeds her cats both canned tuna and canned mackerel. Are there >any precautions she should take? - like mercury in tuna How often to >feed canned fish? Would fresh be better? duh... >Maybe someone cam direct me to a website with more info on feline >nutrition. >TIA Go to this site and scroll down to Additional Articles and there is one about cats and feeding fish: http://www.felinefuture.com/nutrition/ Lauren ________ See my cats: http://community.webshots.com/album/56955940rWhxAe Raw Diet Info: http://www.holisticat.com/drjletter.html http://www.geocities.com/rawfeeders/ForCatsOnly.html Declawing Info: http://www.wholecat.com/articles/claws.htm > A friend feeds her cats both canned tuna and canned mackerel. Are there > any precautions she should take? - like mercury in tuna How often to > feed canned fish? Would fresh be better? duh... > Maybe someone cam direct me to a website with more info on feline > nutrition. > TIA Cats need a varied diet that contains taurine, which is a vital nutrient they can't make themselves. I wouldn't overfeed any one human-grade food, especially canned tuna. If the fish is a supplement to cat food, I wouldn't worry about a lack of nutrients (I'd worry about too much mercury), but if this is a raw food (BARF) diet, the cat will need more than just fish. Cats go blind if they have no taurine in their diet. Kind of like humans get diseases if they don't have certain nutrients, like iodine, in their diet.  Signature-- ~kaeli~ He often broke into song because he couldn't find the key. http://www.ipwebdesign.net/wildAtHeart http://www.ipwebdesign.net/kaelisSpace
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