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Yeah don’t give them raw chicken because cats that kill chickens in the wild will always cook them first.
It's bc of how our meat is processed/what bacteria may be one it. Cats are not immune to salmonella nor most other foodborne pathogens.
Yeah, but that's not a chicken-specific thing. The actual infographic is utter horseshit, of course. Especially with recommending so many greens, as if cats can do more with that than pass them unprocessed and then demand more food as they expelled non-trivial amounts of energy on it.
It kind of is. You know how it's fine to eat a rare steak, but not rare chicken? It's because of higher contamination levels.
oh yeah fs, the infographic sucks ass but i thought id chime in on specifically why chicken sucks
yeah. until it eats the wrong chicken, gets sick and dies.
some stuff is fine until it isnt.
Animals in the wild die of food poisoning all the time; that doesn't mean that we should have our pets doing the same. It's a bit like playing Russian roulette, the risk is better than outright starving, but it isn't riskless.
Also, I'm not sure but I think that battery farming increases the proliferation of salmonella.
Don't let your cat eat lithium
My cat is bipolar, OK? Her vet prescribed lithium and she's getting it! Otherwise she becomes like the feline equivalent of that squirrel from Over The Edge.
I stand here defeated. You my sir are the true king 🙇♂️
Fresh kill is a far cry from raw meat days after butchering which is only deemed safe on the condition that it gets cooked.