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What can't cats eat?
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Cats, like dogs, have a lot of inedible food. Cats are carnivores. They can get enough nutrition from fish or meat. In order to make cats get balanced nutrition, they must be fed with various animal proteins.

According to zoologists, cats especially need an amino acid called taurine. It is said that this is because the cat itself cannot synthesize taurine. If you can't take this amino acid from food, cats will be blind at night, and the more serious consequence is even blindness. Therefore, appropriate amount of taurine is added to cat food. By the way, dogs can synthesize taurine by themselves, so there is no need to add taurine to dog food. So, this is why dogs can eat cat food, but cats can't eat dog food.

The first thing to bear is onions or onions. After cats eat this food or food containing this food, red blood cells will melt, leading to anemia or toxic blood-does it sound terrible? When the red blood cells in the blood are destroyed, the cat will fall into a state of extreme anemia and excrete red urine, which will seriously lead to death!

Then the chicken bones. This thing is very sharp, people are easy to get hurt when eating chicken, and cats are more likely to be stabbed in the throat and stomach, and then bleed ... Of course, larger fishbones are also easy to stab the cat's throat and mouth, so don't feed it the whole fish, because it is naturally hormonal when eating fish, but it should be diligent and help it pick out the big thorns.

Dogs and cats are not allowed to eat human food, especially pickled products. Dear friends of cats and dogs, please take a warning! Blue back fish (such as mackerel, mackerel) contains a lot of unsaturated fatty acids. If cats keep eating this kind of fish, it will lead to vitamin E deficiency and then get sick.

Milk is a necessity for calves to grow up, but cats and dogs don't absorb it well. Pure milk will give cats and dogs diarrhea, and it is best to dilute it with water if you want to feed it. Cats eating too much squid, octopus and shellfish will cause gastrointestinal dysfunction. Squid and octopus can easily cause indigestion in cats, leading to gastric dilatation. However, after these things are cooked, they can be fed in small amounts as occasional snacks for cats.

Chocolate contains a lot of methylxanthine, mainly theobromine and caffeine, which can cause acute gastrointestinal, neurological and cardiac poisoning in cats. Symptoms of poisoning vary according to the amount of food eaten and the weight of the cat. Loss of appetite, drooling, vomiting, diarrhea, frequent urination, central nervous system excitement, trembling, unsteady gait, spasm, rapid heartbeat and breathing, arrhythmia.