Feeding Cats Raw Meat?
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Dec 4th, 2009 |
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All the people I’ve spoken to on Y!A tell me not to feed my kitten raw meat because she’ll ‘get sick and die’.
I don’t get it, none of the vets I know have any issue with it. They do in fact say that raw chicken is excellent for cats. Plus, cats eat raw meat in the wild. Even domestic cats eat raw birds.
So do any of you actually have any facts (with links) to back up your claims of raw meat being dangerous?
Not trying to be harsh, just curious to know all the facts.
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I have never had a problem with feeding cats raw meat, as long as its fresh. It’s great for cleaning their teeth. Just make sure if you are feeding cats raw meat with bones that the smaller bones are removed to avoid the cat choking. The problem with feeding cooked meat, if its on a bone is that the bone can splinter causing cats to choke. Raw meat in that sense is far safer.
I think you’ve answered your own question. Now let your kitty go catch a mouse………..
Maybe people are being that raw meat may also contain harmful germs and disease. Cooking the raw meat will give the people the sense of security that they are not feeling poison to their cat/kittens.
If the meat is fresh why not? Cats eat fresh kill, chicken bought in stores can be contamited fromteh processing it goes through.. any meat could be contaminted, but then you shouldn’t eat it either…It would however be imoral to feed pork to your cat..
http://cats.about.com/cs/nutrition/a/raw…
here! this should be pretty helpful! good luck and happy holidays!