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[โ€“] someguy3@lemmy.ca 6 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (3 children)

I heard you shouldn't give dogs cooked bones (their jaws can break them), does that apply to cats?

Also, how are you making them when your cat's sitting on the stove.

[โ€“] Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world 4 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

That's true about dogs, but cats naturally hunt and eat birds and other species with breakable bones, ~~so it's fine for them~~

I'm heating ready made ones in the oven and the scent wafting up from it is attracting her to that spot ๐Ÿ˜

Edit: guess being cooked takes them from the best thing for them ever to a major health risk ๐Ÿ˜ž

[โ€“] wander1236@sh.itjust.works 9 points 9 months ago (1 children)

The bones in the things they catch aren't usually cooked. I thought that was the big danger, since cooked bones splinter more easily and could cause internal injury.

[โ€“] Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world 6 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Well, fuck. I looked it up and you're right. There goes one of the favorite things of both Emily and her sister Charlotte ๐Ÿ˜ž

[โ€“] TheFriar@lemm.ee 3 points 9 months ago

Well, itโ€™s better to learn about it this way, the easy way, and not the hard way.

I used to work in a holistic/froofy pet store. There are a lot of great options for cats. Frozen chicken and turkey necks (raw), smoked bones (the only way to safely cook bones for your pet to eat), cooked tendons (my cat is a freak for the turkey tendons, though she gets so hyped about them that Iโ€™ve had to pull whole tendons out of her throat and she now has to chew them while I hold onto one endโ€ฆ)

Itโ€™s just not worth the risk from human food bone scraps.

[โ€“] wander1236@sh.itjust.works 2 points 9 months ago

You probably shouldn't give cats cooked bones either.

I'm guessing the wings are in the oven.

[โ€“] FrostyCaveman@lemm.ee 2 points 9 months ago

Thatโ€™s right, cooked no raw yes*

*with caution