I was just wondering cuz I know you can't feed cats human food all the time so I was wondering if tuna is still safe to feed cats for every meal every day?
Human tuna is not something to feed your cats as anything other than an occasional treat. For one, it does not contain taurine - that's an amino acid that isn't found in cooked meat of any kind. Cats cannot make taurine in their bodies, and without it cats will go blind and develop heart disease. It also causes what is called yellow fat disease as it lacks vitamin E. Your best bet is either a proper raw diet, or 'real' cat food.
No, definitely not. It 'not safe for people to eat tuna everyday anymore. Tuna is a large fish and so often contains quite a bit of mercury. Too much mercury is bad for pets and humans alike. Also, human tuna fish doesn't have all the nutrients your cat needs. Feed him or her a quality cat food that is tuna flavored instead.
NO! you should never feed your cat tuna fish. there are components in tuna that are very unsafe for your cat. if you want to give your cat a treat, mix some tuna water (from the tuna-with-water can) in it's dry cat food. cats have cat food for a reason, it is made to be healthy and have the nutrients your cat needs. feed it dry cat food, and if you want to treat it a little, give it a spoonful of wet cat food.
No. First of all it doesn't have all the nutrients that cats need, like taurine most importantly. Also feeding this much fish will lead to thyamine deficiency in the cat's body.
It's good as occasional treat or as a way to get them more interested in their food, but not as a big portion of their diet.
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As for healthy, balanced food, I wouldn't really recommend feeding any dry food. Cats are designed to get their water from food. That's the way nature designed them, they have low thirst drive. When fed dry, they won't drink enough to compensate for the lack of moisture. They will only consume about 50% of the water they should be having. This can lead to kidney disease, UTI, crystals, blockage, renal failure and more.
Free feeding also contributes to obesity. And the fact that dry food is over-processed means, that most of it's little nutrition has been already destroyed, leaving almost no nutrients for your cat. It needs to eat more to meet it's needs, and in the process consumes more calories from the fillers.
Btw wetting the dry food will not help. There's bacteria on the kibble and the water would just allow it to grow.
The only way to give the cat it's natural hydration is to feed it wet food only.
But some wet foods are not of a very high quality, either. That goes for most commercial foods. Just like the dry, they are often made with cheap fillers such as corn, wheat, soy, rice etc. These are not a part of cat's natural diet (it's an obligate carnivore - it eats meat) and they are not designed to digest it. Grain is carbohydrate which the cats can't process and it turns into blood sugar and fat, causing diabetes and obesity. In the wild, where cats only hunt for meat, diabetes and obesity are unheard of. It's us who cause these by feeding a species inappropriate food.
pets question and answers,www.5d2d.com We usually read labels on our food, but rarely on the food for our cats. Learn to read the label and understand the ingredients. The healthiest food to feed apart from raw feeding is grain-free wet food with no by-product. Some good brands are Wellness CORE, EVO, Merrick, Nature's Variety, Blue Buffalo Wilderness and more. These will give your cat the proper hydration and nutrition it's designed to get and it will be strong and healthy.
If you switch it's diet, do it gradually, by mixing the current food with the new one over couple of weeks until there's only the new. This will prevent diarrhea and upset stomach.
You will probably get a lot of different answers, so google feline nutrition or look at the links below, and do the research for yourself. I personally wasn't able to find one reliable source (besides the pet food industry) that would say grain is beneficial for cats or that dry is beneficial for them.
More on cat nutrition below,
Good luck!
