1. Cats can't meet their nutritional needs only by eating fish meat, so fish meat can't be fed to cats as a staple food. However, fish can be used as a supplementary food or reward for cats. When cats feed on cat food, they can feed fish three or four times a week.
2. The fish that pet owners feed cats must be strictly selected. It is best to choose freshwater fish with fewer fishbones for cats. If there are many fishbones, it is necessary to carefully select the fishbones before feeding the cat to prevent the cat from eating fish. In this process, the fishbone will stab the cat's mouth, throat or esophagus.
3. Before the cat feeds the fish, pay attention to completely remove the head, gills and viscera of the fish. Because fish live in rivers or lakes, and rivers and lakes are more or less polluted, such as heavy metal pollution and pesticide pollution to a certain extent, and these pollutants mainly remain in the head and cheeks of fish. If cats eat these parts of fish, it may affect their health. Therefore, pet owners must wash their fish thoroughly before feeding them.
4, raw fish and cooked fish, cats can eat, but it is recommended that pet owners cook the fish before feeding the cat, and cook it by boiling or steaming, without adding any seasonings and seasonings. This is the healthiest way to feed the cat cooked food. However, pet owners must pay attention to cooking this kind of fish, because cats eating raw fish may cause some parasitic problems, and may also destroy vitamin B 1 in cats. Lack of vitamin B 1 in cats may lead to spasms, heart disease, intermittent shock and other problems.
In addition, cats with sensitive stomachs had better not eat fish.
Second, the precautions for feeding cats
1. Be careful not to feed cats with marine fish, because marine fish contains a lot of magnesium salts. Excessive intake of magnesium salt in cats may cause symptoms of urinary calculi, and even lead to urinary tract diseases and even kidney diseases in cats.
2. In addition, marine fish is rich in thiaminase, which can decompose thiamine in cats. If cats feed on marine fish for a long time, it may lead to vitamin deficiency in cats, or cause cervical pain, neck hardness and other symptoms.
That's what Dr. Paw Paw introduced about feeding fish to cats. I hope pet owners can learn to feed their cats fish reasonably to protect their health.