1. How to feed fish to cats to be healthy
1. Cats only eat fish It cannot meet its nutritional needs, so fish cannot be fed as a cat’s staple food. However, fish can be used as a complementary food or reward for cats. In the case of cat food as the main food, feed it 3 or 4 times a week.
2. The fish that the pet owner feeds to the cat must be strictly selected. It is best to choose freshwater fish with fewer fish bones for the cat. If there are many fish bones, you need to carefully pick out the fish bones before feeding the cat. , in order to prevent the cat from stabbing the cat’s mouth, throat or esophagus with fish bones in the process of eating fish meat.
3. Before feeding the cat with fish, pay attention to thoroughly remove the head, gills and internal organs of the fish. Because fish live in rivers or lakes, river water and lake water will be more or less polluted, such as heavy metal pollution, pesticide pollution, etc. The gills, if the cat eats these parts of the fish, it may affect its health, so the pet owner feeds the cat with the fish, be sure to clean the fish thoroughly before feeding.
4. Cats can eat both raw fish and cooked fish, but it is recommended that pet owners should cook the fish before feeding the cat. It can be cooked by boiling or steaming. Add any seasonings and flavors and it’s the healthiest way to feed your cat cooked food. However, pet owners must pay attention to cooking the fish, because eating raw fish may cause some parasite problems in cats, and it may also damage the vitamin B1 in the cat. A lack of vitamin B1 in cats may cause cramps, heart disease, and intermittent shock. And other issues.
5. In addition, cats with more sensitive stomachs should not eat fish.
Second, Feeding Precautions for cats
1. Be careful not to feed seawater fish to cats, because seawater fish contains a lot of magnesium salts, and cats ingesting too much magnesium salts may cause symptoms of urolithiasis and even lead to urinary tract symptoms in cats disease or even kidney disease.
2. In addition, sea fish is also rich in thiamine enzyme, which can decompose thiamine in the cat’s body. If the cat eats sea fish for a long time, it may cause the cat’s Vitamin deficiency, or causes symptoms such as cervical pain and stiff neck in cats.
