Cats prefer to eat fish or other meat

Those who like to eat fish the most, relatively speaking, it is the nature of cats to eat fish.

The first choice of food to feed cats should be fish, because cats like fishy food, and chicken liver also has a strong fishy smell, so they also like to eat it, but it should be noted that the fish must be cooked and not too much salt. In fact, all felines, such as lions, tigers, caracals, servals, and domestic cats, are not very picky eaters relative to humans. This is because felines have a much smaller number of taste buds (taste receptors) on their tongues than on human tongues, so their sense of taste is not as sensitive as that of humans.

Felines, however, have a much more sensitive sense of smell.

Compared to other meats, fish has a strong smell that sends a strong message to domestic cats: fish is a good protein**. You know, cats are carnivores, and what they are most interested in is protein.

Once a domestic cat smells the smell of fish, it will develop a strong desire to eat it. So, it seems to us that cats are very obsessed with fish, but in fact they just like to eat meat, especially meat with a strong smell like fish.

However, not all domestic cats like to eat fish. The degree of love that domestic cats love for fish also has a lot to do with their usual eating habits: if you keep feeding domestic cat fish, as domestic cats get used to fish, they will become more and more inseparable from fish; A domestic cat with infiltration has never eaten a fish since it was a child, and it will hesitate when you suddenly feed it a fish; There are even cats that don't want to eat fish at all.

Cats are nocturnal creatures, and in order to adapt to a pitch black environment, they must have excellent eyesight. Taurine is a substance that can improve night vision, this sulfur-containing non-protein amino acid accounts for 50% of the total free amino acids in the retina, and has a promoting effect on photoreceptor cells in the retina of cats.

If a cat's food is deficient in taurine, it can lead to retinal degeneration, and long-term deficiency can lead to blindness. Studies have shown that taurine is contained in many animals, among which fish and shellfish are the most abundant, and mice such as the first to contain a large amount of taurine.

Like.

Cats love to eat fish because it has a strong flavor, and cats love this taste very much. The cat's own dietary characteristics determine that the cat is an animal that is easily addicted to a certain food, which is usually called a picky eater.

If you continue to provide fish products to cats for a long time, cats will become very addicted to fish, and you will feel that cats love to eat them. However, no matter from which point of view, it is not good for cats to eat one food for a long time, not to mention that the nutrition of this food is not balanced.

Freshwater fish are very prone to parasites, among which liver flukes are a common parasitic of freshwater fish, which takes freshwater fish and shrimp as the intermediate host, and humans or other mammals as the final host, if the cat eats freshwater fish raw, the cat is easily infected. Therefore, if you give a cat freshwater fish, be sure to cook it.

Characteristics of cat diet

Cats' food in nature includes rodents, birds, small insects, etc., and we should refer to these foods when providing food to cats. According to the natural dietary characteristics of cats, combined with the ingredients that can be easily obtained in our daily life, cats can be provided with chickens, ducks, rabbits, cows, sheep, and some marine fish.

For cats, it is necessary to achieve food diversity in daily feeding, and also to avoid the formation of a single taste memory for cats and the formation of picky eating habits. Don't give your cat only one food for a long time, for example, only fish, or only chicken breast, at least 3 or more foods**, preferably 5.

Providing meat to cats does take time and effort, and for many people, it may only be possible to provide cat food to cats. In this case, try to choose cat food with high meat content and low starch content, and be careful not to have attractants to avoid cats becoming addicted to a certain kind of cat food.

We all know that cats like to eat fish, but do you know why?

Cats have a playful nature, and the food they choose is also the kind that is alive, for example, everyone knows that cats catch mice and eat mice, the reason is that cats provide this kind of food in the living environment before they are domesticated and petted, but also because cats like to enjoy the fun process of catching mice. Therefore, we will also find that cats also prey on small birds, and even see butterflies to provoke. Since cats are interested in running on the ground and flying in the sky, why can't cats who are curious and active by nature be "suspicious" of the fish swimming in the water?

Although it can't go into the water, doesn't it still and won't go to the sky? Didn't you catch a bird? Cats have a strong ability to grasp opportunities and catch birds that fall to the ground or fish that float to the surface.

So why do you "love fish so much"? It is not difficult to imagine that cat owners live in bungalow yards (as was the case earlier), and the neighborhood is not in a hurry to buy fish for the time being, or want to eat fresh and put it in the water tank, and what do you want to make pickled fish and hang it on the eaves to cool, which can provide opportunities and challenges for cats. It should be easy to fish in the water tank, and it is not difficult to pick fish in the room, and the greedy cat face after the cat succeeds is to make the fish owner hold a grudge, so a pass on ten or ten hundreds, everyone will remember that cats love to eat fish, which may also be a kind of false rumor, but the answer to the nutritional content of fish is also based on science.

Taurine in fish is helpful for cats' eyesight when hunting at night, and cats also love meat.

Cats actually like fish because they are to their taste.

I know that felines like lively prey, and they don't like lifeless, and the smell of fish attracts them, and that's all I know, wait with the landlord.

Taurine in fish is helpful for cats' nocturnal predation.

Because it also wants to swim in the water like a fish.

Because cats have to keep their eyesight good, I've never seen cats wear eyes.

Because all cats love to eat.

Have you ever heard of a greedy cat stealing fish? Once you've heard it, you'll know a little bit about it.

Tiger Cat Khaki == It's just that the taste is different.

Cats eat fish safely.

People will think that it is a natural thing for cats to eat fish, which cat does not eat fishy, is there any reason for this? In fact, there is also some small knowledge about the problem of cats eating fish. If you ignore these issues, you are likely to cause some undeserved illnesses for your cat.

There are many types of fish, and here we divide it into two categories: freshwater fish and marine fish.

Let's start with freshwater fish. Freshwater fish is an ideal food for cats. Although most of them have a lot of set of spines, they do not pose much of a threat to the cat's digestive tract, as the vast majority of the fine spines are smoothed out by the barbs on the cat's tongue before being swallowed and digested in the stomach.

The only thing you need to pay attention to when feeding your cat with freshwater fish is that the fish must be cooked and not allowed to be eaten by the cat, especially the parts of the fish head, gills and internal organs that are discarded during cooking, and not to be thrown to your cat. Because in freshwater fish, especially in natural waters and old ponds, there may be a terrible parasite --- the fluke of the Chinese branch. If a cat is infected when it eats raw freshwater fish, the adult worms will parasitize the cat's liver, causing liver tissue lesions.

Infected cats develop anorexia and depression at the beginning of the illness, followed by jaundice: vomiting, emaciation, and sometimes an increase in body temperature. If the owner is careless at this time, and does not detect it in time and delays the condition, it may endanger the cat's life.

To feed a cat with saltwater fish, you should generally pay attention to 3 points:

Clause. 1. Marine fish generally have hard and coarse fish bones, especially the hairtail fish and yellow croaker that people often eat, these fish bones are difficult for cats to chew and swallow, if the main spine is swallowed backwards, it is likely to be stuck in the throat and difficult to take out. Therefore, when feeding a cat saltwater fish, be sure to remove the fish bones.

Clause. Second, some cats will often have urethral stones due to their own physical factors. The large amount of magnesium salts contained in marine fish can form stones in the cat's urethra. Therefore, cats with a history or genetic history of urethral stones should minimize the consumption of marine fish.

Clause. 3. Marine fish contains a large amount of thiaminase, which can decompose thiamine in food and body. If you eat marine fish as the staple food for a long time, it can cause vitamin B deficiency in cats, cause cervical spine pain, and the neck cannot be lifted.

Therefore, when feeding cats, whether it is freshwater fish or marine fish, you should pay attention to its freshness. Because fish meat is rich in protein, once spoiled, it will produce a large amount of histamine, even if the owner has cooked the fish as much as possible before feeding, but the histamine composition will not be destroyed. Cats may suffer from a range of allergic reactions such as diarrhoea, vomiting, itching of the ears and torso, rashes around the ears and eyes, and sometimes coat loss.

The course of these diseases can be long and short, and in severe cases it can last up to a month, so the owner should try to pay attention to it so as not to cause unnecessary trouble.

Fish are rich in taurine, a substance that cats cannot synthesize on their own.

We all know that cats like to eat fish, but do you know why?