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[-] loweffortname 18 points 1 day ago

Wet cat food is one of the worst things I've ever put in my mouth. Don't do it. It isn't worth it.

[-] Phoenix3875@lemmy.world 12 points 1 day ago

For one thing, cats can't handle the level of salt in human diet. So to a human, cat food is very bland. This is also why one shouldn't feed cat salty human food.

[-] ripripripriprip@lemmy.world 3 points 19 hours ago

That's just...wrong? Cats have incredible kidneys and they can drink salt water.

[-] starman2112@sh.itjust.works 4 points 6 hours ago

To save other readers a search

"Anything over one gram of salt per two pounds of body weight is cause for concern," which means for a 5 lbs cat, it would take 2.5 grams of salt to cause concern. That is approximately 10 small orders of fries at McDonald's, or two entire bags of salty ass chips

Of course they get sodium from their food so don't feed them chips, but also yeah they can eat a ton of salt

[-] sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 2 points 4 hours ago

Yeah, if I ate a gram of salt for every pound of my body weight, I'd be eating 1/3c of salt. That's a lot of salt!

Dietary recommendation is 2.5-5g/day of table salt (I think that roughly correlates to sodium labels), and 1g/2lb would be about 20-40x that. Nuts!

[-] qarbone@lemmy.world 8 points 1 day ago
[-] loweffortname 5 points 21 hours ago

No. That wouldn't be repreaentative of what cats experience.

[-] scutiger@lemmy.world 2 points 19 hours ago

It's already cooked in the can

[-] qarbone@lemmy.world 1 points 19 hours ago

Really? Figured it was raw.

...is the raw can cheaper?

[-] scutiger@lemmy.world 6 points 19 hours ago

It's part of the process of canning. The cans must be heated to kill all bacteria inside, otherwise anaerobic bacteria can reproduce in the can and cause nasty diseases like botulism.

[-] qarbone@lemmy.world 2 points 16 hours ago

....

botulism has gotta drive the price down.

[-] scutiger@lemmy.world 1 points 6 hours ago

If you buy a dinged or damaged can, you can often get a discount on it if you ask. They may or may not be safe to eat, and it's hard to tell until you open it.

[-] sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 1 points 4 hours ago

Surely this is easily exploitable...

[-] SkaveRat@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 18 hours ago

Eating rotten canned food is just the poor man's Botox treatment

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