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loweffortname@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

• Phoenix3875@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  For one thing, cats can’t handle the level of salt in human diet. So to a human, cat food is very bland. This is also why one shouldn’t feed cat salty human food.

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  • ripripripriprip@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    That’s just…wrong? Cats have incredible kidneys and they can drink salt water.

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    • starman2112@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      To save other readers a search

      “Anything over one gram of salt per two pounds of body weight is cause for concern,” which means for a 5 lbs cat, it would take 2.5 grams of salt to cause concern. That is approximately 10 small orders of fries at McDonald’s, or two entire bags of salty ass chips

      Of course they get sodium from their food so don’t feed them chips, but also yeah they can eat a ton of salt

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      • sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        Yeah, if I ate a gram of salt for every pound of my body weight, I’d be eating 1/3c of salt. That’s a lot of salt!

        Dietary recommendation is 2.5-5g/day of table salt (I think that roughly correlates to sodium labels), and 1g/2lb would be about 20-40x that. Nuts!

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• qarbone@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Didja cook it?

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  • loweffortname@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    No. That wouldn’t be repreaentative of what cats experience.

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  • scutiger@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    It’s already cooked in the can

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    • qarbone@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Really? Figured it was raw.

      …is the raw can cheaper?

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      • scutiger@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        It’s part of the process of canning. The cans must be heated to kill all bacteria inside, otherwise anaerobic bacteria can reproduce in the can and cause nasty diseases like botulism.

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