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The truth is that sometimes your cats have a more varied diet than mine. But what you may not know is that many of the things you are giving them can be harmful to them. Hello, I'm Carlos, a clinical veterinarian at Small Animals. Welcome to the Happy Pets and Families Channel. The truth is that the topic of feeding cats is very interesting, and it is one of the things you ask me the most about on social media. We have already made many videos about the things you should not give your cat, such as fruits and vegetables that can be dangerous for them. We have also talked about barf diet treats. But anyway, I see that you continue to send us a lot of questions and doubts on all our social media. So that's why we have compiled a list of your most common doubts and questions. And with all that, we have made this video about seven things that you should not give your cat, although some of them are also applicable to dogs. Under no circumstances. And now I will explain why. Okay? And I say that we have compiled the questions, but I have really had Jose tied to the leg of the desk all weekend looking for questions for me to answer. But the important thing here is that I am the one who provides the wisdom. Well, let's go. Nellie Blanco asks me a very, very sweet question. She says my cat only eats her own pumpkin seeds. Pumpkin seeds? What are they? Ah. I suppose that every now and then I think of a cat pate, but she loves vanilla ice cream, custard, or pastry cream, and I very rarely give her any. I can do it. This answer is mine. Oh, my goodness, Nelly. But you know the sugar bomb you are giving your cat, even if you give her very, very little. Pastry cream, custard, any type of dessert are basically made of fat and sugar and that you don't know what it is that makes them work a lot. Well, let me tell you the pancreas, because it has to secrete a huge amount of insulin and it also has to digest fats. It is very common that when a very fatty food is given to a cat, for example, it ends up developing a problem such as pancreatitis, but it can also end up leading to diabetes. And believe me, you don't want your cat to develop diabetes. Not only because she will always have to depend on you to inject her with insulin, but because that will make the whole family dependent. Insulin is very strict. It has to be given twice a day. And on those two occasions that you have to give it, you have to be with her at home, you have to inject her. Wait to see if it has a good effect, check to see if she has eaten or not. And it is a disease that sometimes can be controlled fairly poorly. Therefore, when we are not going to push our luck and we are not going to give our animals food that could promote the onset of diabetes, and this product could not be left out because we are talking about milk again. Following the video we made on the channel about whether or not cats should drink it, you have sent me a large number of questions and many of them are related to the issue of lactose. Because what I told you in that video is that the most problematic thing about cats drinking milk is that they cannot digest lactose. So there are people who ask me things like this, can they drink plant based milkshake? Well, my cats love them too. Well, look, don't get me wrong. Just because I tell you that the problem with milk or cats drinking milk is that they cannot digest lactose, does not mean that you can give them anything lactose free. Have you stopped to look at the label on a plant based milk? I'm going to read you one that I found in a regular supermarket. It says that it has water, soybeans, fructose, tricalcium, phosphate stabilizers, flavoring, salt, antioxidants, vitamins A and D, allergens that are only soy under that innocent name that you can find there, which is called fructose, which also appears in third place on the label. So it is very present. What is really hidden is sugar. And in the end, what we are giving our cats is a sugary drink that does not do them any good, because they really do not need it, nor is it necessary to supplement their diet with this type of drink. Therefore, I recommend that in these cases you do not give them this type of milk either, because they do not really need it to be well nourished. Just their normal diet is enough. And if it does not have sugar or anything included, then it is really.

A drink that you are providing as an accessory. If they do not need it, why are you going to give it to them? You may be increasing the calories and in the end what the cat ends up doing is getting tired. There are also some milks that have vegetable oils and other things that have no bearing on your cat's diet and that are not a great advantage for your cat's diet. Therefore, do not give them to your cat. And in this all you can eat buffet that we are doing among the desserts, milk and and eggs could not be left out. Some people tell me that their Cats love eggs, for example. Hello. I have a question. Does my cat like to eat raw eggs? Is it advisable for them to eat them? I would appreciate your answer to my question here. We are going to use a bit of popular wisdom. When you come across raw eggs, what goes through your mind? Would you eat them? No, because they are a food that can be contaminated very easily. They are not safe to eat raw, and you could end up catching salmonellosis, as the same can apply to your cat. If you feed your cat raw eggs, you won't be killing the microorganisms that can contaminate the egg. Therefore, your cat can get sick from these types of microorganisms, which are bacteria like salmonella. In addition to all this, after feeding your cat eggs, you should clean their food bowls very, very well. All of these egg residues will be the perfect breeding ground for other types of bacteria to grow. And in the end, everything you put in the food bowl will end up being contaminated and posing a health risk to your cat. But there are also people who might tell me what? Well, I'll cook it a little bit, but I'll leave the yolk a little raw. The same thing happens. Raw yolk is just raw egg.

Don't tell me.

And it can also transmit bacteria. I don't mean that it transmits them at that moment, but if you don't clean the food bowl properly afterwards, all of these yolk residues can become contaminated and pose a health risk to your cat.

Well, I eat the fried egg with the yolk.

Yes, but you're eating it at that very moment. If you put it in the feeder and then don't clean the feeder, the feeder will end up with egg residue that will eventually get contaminated, of course, the feed. And this little guy here is called Leon. Pay close attention, because if you have a cat, you may be in the same situation as Leon, because his family tells us. Hello, Gru. I wanted to tell you that my cat, Leon, loves the broth from stuffed olives. Does anyone else feel the same way? Do you know if it's bad? I don't know what cats have with olives other than admiration. They like them stuffed without stuffing. They like to play with them for a while. They love to eat them. They love the smell and also the taste of the broth from the olives. And I've already talked about this in the video about the fruits, vegetables and greens that your cats can eat and which ones they can't. In this case, it's one of those that they can't because as I already told you, pickled olives have a huge amount of salt. But how do you pickle an olive? Well, of course, by making the liquid have even more salt, also vinegar, acidulants and so on, so that the olive takes on the flavor of the liquid. Therefore, if you don't, I recommend olives, because olives already have a lot of salt, and the liquid multiplies that amount by much more. And with salt, in this case, it's like with the grandfather who is taken away by the doctor because he says his blood pressure is very high. Your cat's blood pressure can also rise, and there are organs in its body that can suffer a lot. For example, the kidney or even the retina. So if I don't recommend olives, much less the liquid, since you don't want to cause these problems for your cat, don't give it to them, not even in a small amount. If we started the video about sugar, telling you that it was a bombshell, it is a bombshell, but in this case it's salt. But in this video, I'm not only going to talk about things that you could eat, but also about things that your cats could eat that you would never even think of. Someone asked me, do you have any videos about cats eating plastic? My cat tries to eat the thin plastic that covers water or milk bottles in a pack. I don't know why he does it, but he's always had this obsession, and he's 12 years old now. I always try to be very careful, and I don't think he's ever eaten any. But I've always lived in fear. What can I do to stop him from eating it? No specialist has been able to help me. Thank you. I think your cat likes plastic, not because it tastes like anything he might find appetizing, but because the feel of the plastic, the sound of it, catches his attention. And if he plays with it for a while and bites it, he might swallow a piece. Cats can play with anything. In fact, it's very, very common for them to end up eating thread at home. I've had some cats come to the emergency room with thread and a needle that the cat has swallowed, and just imagine, that's a real drama. Therefore, what I recommend is that you never have these types of things within reach, because this type of thing, these things are not digested, and the only thing they can do is accumulate, perhaps in the intestine or perhaps in the stomach, and they have to be removed with surgery. It is something very dangerous that you have to be aware of. And for this reason, you have to act and you have to be proactive so that your cat cannot have access to these types of things. But this problem is repeated a lot and with many cats, because on Instagram, people have also. What about plastic plants for cats? Because Sophie has an obsession. She has. Oh, yes, it's my friend Elena. I didn't see that it was my friend Elena, because Sophie has an obsession with going to bite them. She does it when I'm around, and I always take them away from her. Of course, as you can see, it's the same. It's not because Sophie loves plastic plants because they can give her some kind of flavor, but because perhaps she's attracted to the shape or the colors. Therefore, what you have to do is what my friend Elena does and get it out of the way so that she can't have access to it and can't play with it and doesn't end up choking on it by gnawing on it inside her intestines. And we couldn't leave out of this video one of the great meat. It's one of the foods that generates the most questions, and that's why we have it in this video. But no, I'm not telling you that your cat can't eat meat. In fact, all of its food, all the food that you can buy for it, the feed, the cans, and so on, are mostly made of meat, because cats are strict carnivores and their diet must be based on proteins from meat or fish and so on. Or at least they should be made up mostly of this. However, because they are strict carnivores, many people wonder if they can give them raw meat. In fact, that is the next question. Is it true that cats can eat raw meat after it has been frozen for at least 10 hours? Is there a medication to prevent toxoplasmosis? Greetings. Well, I understand that you mean frozen. The truth is that many people think that just by freezing fresh meat, you are already eliminating any type of bacteria, any type of parasite that could affect your cat. And that is not true. There are bacteria that survive freezing for a very long time. In the specific case of toxoplasmosis, right? Most toxoplasmas die when you freeze meat. However, if we look at other bacteria, such as Salmonella, which can survive freezing, or also Listeria, it is possible that when you are giving raw meat to your cat after having frozen it and thinking that it can no longer do anything to it, it ends up getting sick with these diseases. In addition, when we talk about how freezing can kill quite a few bacteria, it has to be under very, very specific conditions that some home freezers do not reach. You have to freeze the meat at 20 grams below zero and for at least 48 hours for that to have any kind of effect. In addition to all this, meat happens a bit like eggs. If you give it raw meat and leave it in the food bowl for a very long time, it could end up being contaminated with bacteria that are in the environment or that are also in its food bowl. And that could pose a risk to your cat. But in answer to your second question, no, there is no medication that we can give to prevent toxoplasmosis. There are only medications. There are only treatments that are given after the animal has been suffering from this disease. Many people also ask me about the bones. If you can give them meat with bones, meaty bones and so on. These types of bones can also pose a health risk to the cat, because there are many people who think that if you don't cook the bone, the bone is completely harmless because it doesn't splinter. It is true that bones that are cooked splinter more easily, and that may be an added risk. But the bone itself can also be dangerous. A bone of this size can be swallowed perfectly by a cat through its mouth, but then it doesn't pass through its intestine and ends up causing an obstruction. This is something that unfortunately has come to the clinic for me many times. And that is why I never recommend that you give bones to your pets. And finally, if we are talking about diets and cats, how do felines usually get their food in the wild? Correct. By stalking and hunting their own prey. Many people also ask me about this. Hello. What if you catch mice? They don't eat them, they just kill them. My furry friends are vaccinated. They live in the yard, and they come into the house because they don't like being locked up. Could this still harm them? Well, yes. It has nothing to do with your cats being vaccinated, because normally we vaccinate cats against diseases that they can get and that are transmitted by other cats. But there are other diseases that mice can also transmit, regardless of whether they eat them or not, because you can't control whether they've eaten any. Or if they've caught three, eaten two, and left one for you, and you say, okay, well, they won't eat them. Obviously, since you can't control that, you have to prevent your cats from catching mice, because mice can also transmit the famous toxoplasmosis. And in that case, you can't freeze the mouse so that it doesn't transmit any risk. But this isn't the only danger. The external parasites of mice can also bite them and in turn transmit diseases to them. But your cat can also have these parasites on them and. And put them inside their house, your home, causing them to end up coloring your sofa, their bed, and that ends up being a disaster. And as I told you last week, mice can have previously been poisoned with rat poison that can poison your cats. So I hope these are reasons enough for you to prevent your cats from ending up catching mice. But how did a person with a cat catch a mouse? You can set mouse traps with bait, such as snares and such, and that way you prevent them from running around and your cats from catching them. It's complicated, but you have no choice. And that's it. We're done. As you can see, here I am, as always, depriving your cat of those little earthly pleasures, those little treats, those little treats that they love. It's usually a bad idea to ask a vet what you should or shouldn't give your cat, because we'll always tell you no by default. But the truth is that many times you're not aware of the risks that can arise to pass on those types of foods to them. Well, I hope this video has helped you to better guide your cat's diet and to think twice before deciding whether to give them a little raw chicken or add a little custard. And that's it for today's video. If you liked it, give it a like and share it with everyone. Remember to subscribe to our channel if you haven't already, because if I'm not here to tell you what things your cat shouldn't eat, who will be? And hit the bell. So YouTube will notify you every time we upload new content. Thank you very much for following the Happy Pets and Families channel, and I'll see you in the next video. And to say goodbye, we're going to continue getting to know your pets, which you introduced to us through our Facebook group. And the truth is that we love seeing them all. Look at this little guy. Esther Maria Madweno tells us that she went on an excursion with the cat and that she got home and he was exhausted, of course, poor thing. No, I know you've seen the video we made on the channel about how to walk a cat, but if you haven't, I recommend that you go and take a look because it might help you the next time you take your cat out. And Johnny Cuenca introduced us to his two little critters, Frieda and Tyrio. Well, they're lions. They're panthers. I love the pose of this little guy with his paws like this on the scratching post, which I suppose must be Frieda because she's tricolor and all that, but, hey, that's just my assumption. Don't tell me they're not cute. If you want us to meet your pets, what you have to do is introduce them in the Facebook group, and we'll be very attentive to feature them in this section of the videos. See you next week.

Next week.

Until next week. You already said it. What? What?

You already said it. About what? But you know, right? What was it like? Oh, okay. Jose tied up on the leg. But for sure. No, I don't remember. Here it is. Hello. But for sure. Now I'm going to have to make a little stand here. Why? Why am I like this? Don't record me for outtakes. Tell me what it was. Hello. Like admiration. I don't know. Cables to dogs. I mean, cats can play, what, a rhythm, right? Oh, that's right. In addition to this. In addition to this. Therefore. It can get to. Therefore, Right. And in the end, it may be that in the end. In the end, I'm like, no. Ah. Because. But I thought you were telling me to repeat it. Who's going to do it? Who's going to be there? Uh, tell me who's going to be there?