Cat Safe Foods
Sharing food with your cat? Make sure it's safe first
Sharing food with your cat? Make sure it's safe first
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Read the tips below before sharing any food with cats
Tuna is not toxic to cats, but contrary to popular belief, it is not part of cats' natural diets, and therefore, they should not regularly eat tuna. Tuna can actually destroy certain vitamins, causing cats to have an unbalanced diet. Cats should only eat tuna as a treat or as an ingredient in cat food, in which ingredients are balanced properly. Like swordfish, tuna is a large, long-living fish, and since mercury accumulates in fish over time, they have higher levels of mercury than other types of fish, like salmon, whitefish, herring, tilapia, flounder, and Arctic char. Consuming too much mercury can result in mercury poisoning, which can cause severe, or potentially fatal, health complications. NOTE: Consumer Reports recommended that people limit their tuna consumption based on their weight. Giving your cat a small amount of long-living fish will not cause mercury poisoning, but since there are no recommendations for how much a cat can safely eat, it is best not to feed it to your cat at all.