I know I know… “obligate carnivore”

  • UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world
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    29 days ago

    feeding a cat a diet that is biologically incapable of meeting a cat’s dietary needs

    We’ve been putting supplemental taurine in cat kibble for decades.

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      Just because there is supplemental taurine in cat kibble doesn’t mean that’s the only thing they need from their diet. Just get a different pet jfc

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      There’s a world of difference between supplementing taurine and engineering a synthetic meat-free diet for a cat, requiring continuous blood and urine testing which, if done incorrectly or not monitored correctly, will 100% fuck up and probably kill your cat.

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        There’s a world of difference between supplementing taurine and engineering a synthetic meat-free diet for a cat

        What do you think the supplemental taurine is intended to accomplish?

        This just reminds me of people who lost their fucking minds when they found out a big chunk of McD’s hamburgers were soy protein. This is a cost-cutting measure as often as it is any ethical consideration. Your cat may be far closer to vegan than you even realize.

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          First of all, taurine is not the only thing you need to supplement. Second of all, you can’t just sprinkle some taurine over the kibble and call it a fucking day. This is serious shit. It needs to be calculated, tested, monitored by a God damn licensed veterinarian with literally continuous blood and urine testing. I had a diabetic cat for 21 years. Keeping her glucose stable throughout the day was deceptively challenging, and that’s one of the easiest long term care conditions for a cat.

          You people are going to kill your cats. Fucking shame on you.

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            You people are going to kill your cats.

            My cats lived to the ripe old age of 16, before they passed. Somehow, the vet never seemed to find all these maladies during their annual checkups.

            But hey, maybe the random haters on the internet know more than a couple of trained professionals.