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My friends feed their cat canned tuna fish. I have heard this is bad
for the cat and can cause may health problems including heart failure. Is this true? http://www.pets-planet.info/ |
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On Wed, 03 Dec 2008 09:23:09 -0800, Loving Pets wrote:
My friends feed their cat canned tuna fish. I have heard this is bad for the cat and can cause may health problems including heart failure. Is this true? http://www.pets-planet.info/ It's not bad as a snack but wouldn't work as a primary food. Most mammal are able to synthesize taurine. Cats can't. That means that they need food that has taurine added. Cats in the wild get taurine from their prey - it's contained in raw meat. It gets degraded in cooking and processing, so even cooked meat isn't a decent taurine source. I don't think canned tuna contains anywhere enough taurine either, so feeding nothing but canned tuna could be very bad. Dan |
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Dan M kirjoitti:
On Wed, 03 Dec 2008 09:23:09 -0800, Loving Pets wrote: My friends feed their cat canned tuna fish. I have heard this is bad for the cat and can cause may health problems including heart failure. Is this true? http://www.pets-planet.info/ It's not bad as a snack but wouldn't work as a primary food. Most mammal are able to synthesize taurine. Cats can't. That means that they need food that has taurine added. Cats in the wild get taurine from their prey - it's contained in raw meat. It gets degraded in cooking and processing, so even cooked meat isn't a decent taurine source. I don't think canned tuna contains anywhere enough taurine either, so feeding nothing but canned tuna could be very bad. Dan At least over here there are tuna and other canned fish products especially for cats. I don't have any of those at home right now, and the brand's website only lists tuna, water, modified starch and vitamins as the ingredients. But then tuna for human consumption doesn't list any vitamins among the ingredients, just tuna, sunflower oil (or brine if in brine) and salt. I have always been under the impression that the kitty tuna was OK for a kitty, but the human tuna was not. -- Christine in Finland christal63 (at) gmail (dot) com |
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Dan M wrote: On Wed, 03 Dec 2008 09:23:09 -0800, Loving Pets wrote: My friends feed their cat canned tuna fish. I have heard this is bad for the cat and can cause may health problems including heart failure. Is this true? http://www.pets-planet.info/ It's not bad as a snack but wouldn't work as a primary food. Most mammal are able to synthesize taurine. Cats can't. That means that they need food that has taurine added. Cats in the wild get taurine from their prey - it's contained in raw meat. It gets degraded in cooking and processing, so even cooked meat isn't a decent taurine source. I don't think canned tuna contains anywhere enough taurine either, so feeding nothing but canned tuna could be very bad. I assume the OP was speaking of "people" tuna, which also contains far too much salt (even for people, really). Presumably tuna flavored CAT food (a reputable brand, of course) is okay, since it would be formulated for optimum feline nutrition. Dan |
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On Dec 3, 9:23*am, Loving Pets wrote:
My friends feed their cat canned tuna fish. I have heard this is bad for the cat and can cause may health problems including heart failure. Is this true? http://www.pets-planet.info/ Not a good idea because canned tuna isn't nutritionally complete for cats, I would say okay as an occasional treat I am not a great fan of tinned tuna for myself but now and again I fancy tuna in my workaday sandwiches and when I do I might put a small teaspoonful of it in the cats bowl maybe once every few months but tuna is not an acceptable food for cats unless we are talking tuna flavoured cat food but I have heard that isn't that good for them unless it;'s part of a balanced diet Lesley Slave of the Fabulous Furballs |
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Loving Pets wrote:
My friends feed their cat canned tuna fish. I have heard this is bad for the cat and can cause may health problems including heart failure. Is this true? [link deleted] Adrian, I think you're right on this one - SPAM. -- Joyce ^..^ (To email me, remove the X's from my user name.) |
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