Comment on Anon finds a new way to get protein
Phoenix3875@lemmy.world 1 week agoFor 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.
Comment on Anon finds a new way to get protein
Phoenix3875@lemmy.world 1 week agoFor 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.
ripripripriprip@lemmy.world 1 week ago
That’s just…wrong? Cats have incredible kidneys and they can drink salt water.
starman2112@sh.itjust.works 1 week 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
sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 1 week 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!