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?is It Ok, Cats To Eat Dog Food We have a cat that started coming and pouncing up onto our front entry door just this week, in the wee hours of the night. We have never had a cat and don't know the first thing about them. It kept huddling up by our door tonight. It is so cold out so I just went out and put a box with bedding in it on the front porch, I put some of Baby Blessings dry dog food out for it and it ate it up in a hurry. This is the first time for me to feed it, hope giving it dry dog food is okay????? :confused: but I don't want to encourage it to stay, however, I feel so sorry for it, and it seemed so content to get into the box. Golly we are wanting another little yorkie not a cat. :( Patti |
I have 2 cats and they both will eat my dogs food, the cats are now 14 and 15 years old and have always been very healthy in fact 1 has never been to the vets only for jabs and the other only once when he hurt his paw and they have been eating dog food for 10 years!!! So i personally cant see any harm in it. |
Feeding a dog cat food; or a cat dog food is FINE. Just so long as it's not long term. I mean, if it's all you have for say a week, then you do what you have to do. It's better than nothing. But ultimately you will want to provide each animal w/ a proper balance of nutrition and feline diets are lacking in some areas or may be too rich in some areas for our canine counterparts and vice versus. Make sense? |
Awwww Patti, You so sweet for helping the little kitty... it's cold out. Poor thing. I know it's hard to refuse anything like that, ive done the same in the past with cats, they stayed around my house outside, i fed and watered them. |
Just to let you know, a dog can eat cat food however a cat can not eat dog food... A few days are fine but not long term... A cat will also stay around while it is fed. That's wonderful that you are providing shelter for it..:doghouse:.We just got two kitties over the week-end, they are Oriental Shorthairs..:cat: |
Once you feed a cat, it never leaves. Poor thing. as long as you dont feed it dog food for a LONG time, it sould not hurt it or anything. |
This is an answer to the same question that I found on "ask the Veterinarian" It's only very harmful if they are eating it as their staple diet. Cats require a higher protein intake than dogs do. By eating dog food regularly, the cat will develop a protein deficiancy which can lead to serious health problems. Dogs do not need as much protein in their diet. By eating cat food, the dog then will receive too much protein and will then face problems like bladder stones, urinary obstructions, fatty liver, etc. Now, if your dog or cat happened to steal some food out of the other's bowl, there is no need to worry. My cat steals a few pieces of my dog's food just about everyday. Hilary Schiavone-Brensinger, DVM |
Feeding a cat dog food long-term can make it go blind. This happened to two of my aunt's cats over the years and the vet said it was because they were eating the dog food. :( |
Thanks Everyone I will be going to pets mart today so I will get some dry cat food, and whatever they suggest. I shall post a card on the bulletin board at the post office in trying to locate it's owner. Hopefully this cat is spayed or neutered. It ate more food than Baby Blessing eats at one feeding so I knew it was hungry. Just hope it doesn't try to dart in the house :( Thanks everyone for your help. |
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Just to put all your minds at rest..i do feed my cats their proper cat food but they also like to pinch the dogs food too. And as i stated they have done for 10 years, maybe we have just been lucky as mine have had no problems, maybe its because they have cat food too? |
It must be the season I think I know how you feel. Our next door neighbors moved away & apparently left their cat. I ignored it for several days because they were still coming & going & I thought maybe they were feeding it. After several days when they had not came back, I started feeding it Little Bit's food. Then after another few days I went to Pet Smart & got some cat food. Now there are 3 of them & they don't get along. I didn't want one but I sure don't want 3 and at least one of them seems to be a mean tom cat. You know if I keep feeding them, they are going to multiply and none of them will come up to me. Just sit around & cry for food & try to chase each other away. :( Quote:
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Thank goodness there is only one coming around our home, don't know who it belongs to but I did get it some dry cat food and now put the bedding box in the storeage shed,left the door ajar so it can go in at night ( No more of it pouncing on our front entry door in the wee hours for us :) it only seems to come around here at late night or the wee morning hours.) Hopefully it's owner is just temporarily gone, but if thats the case they should have taken it to a place to board it :( It is terrible that someone moved away and left their cat there by you Doortego, and now you have three :( :( :( Years ago some folks sold their home in our area and left their Ram behind in the field, had water an plenty of grazing to be had, but that was not right. |
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