An occasional feeding of vegetables is not a problem. However, cats are carnivores and require certain nutrients which plants don't contain. Feeding a well-balanced, good quality diet is satisfactory for most cats' nutritional needs.

Cats love fish, but fish alone is not a balanced diet. It lacks Taurine – an essential vitamin for cats. When buying food for your kitten, look for commercial pet foods that offer special formulas that are made especially for kittens less than one year old. And remember, too much milk can give your kitten diarrhea.

Neither is a vegan by nature -- dogs are omnivores, and cats are carnivores. While both dogs and cats belong to the class carnivora, this doesn't mean a lot, so does the panda bear and they are near vegan. By nature cats and dogs wouldn't eat anything like what is commonly found in a can of pet food either. Special diets must be provided for cats, as they require an amino acid called taurine -- found in the muscles of animals.

Label instructions are general guidelines. Your individual cat may require more or less based on the above factors. Your veterinarian will be able to advise you on what your cat's ideal weight should be and how to make any necessary and safe adjustments to the current nutritional program.

All cats, diabetic and non-diabetic, should be fed only low carbohydrate, high protein foods. This effectively removes all dry foods from consideration, including dry foods that say they are “low carbohydrate” and all dry foods made for diabetic cats.

There are many balanced cat diets available at your local pet shop or from your veterinarian. There are as many answers to this question as there are people feeding cats. I feed mine Nutro Complete Care products, kitten, adult and pouches. Very young kittens I feed either Iams Kitten or one of the Royal Canin kitten foods. If one of them needs additional calories or vitamins, I add Wysong Archetype to their regular meals.

Your dog must be supervised so as to not allow the treat to be swallowed whole, as the goal is for the dog to chew on it. You, the dog's caretaker, must decide which treats are appropriate for your dog based on your dog's size and package instructions. If you are unsure about the proper size of treat to give your dog, always select the next size larger. It is safer to feed your dog a bigger treat.

Jackson came to his passion for cat behavior through over 8 years of work at the Humane Society of Boulder Valley and 5 years doing private consultations through Little Big Cat. He has devoted countless hours to independent study of the experts in the field, to complement his hands-on experience with thousands of "problem" cats. Jackson has also done hundreds of successful consultations with individual cat guardians.

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Vegetables are important; however, the amount contained in most commercial foods has little value other than advertising. Vegetables that can be fed raw include finely grated carrots, zucchini, alfalfa sprouts and parsley. Dogs enjoy whole raw carrots as treats as well.

NO! Toads are meat eaters. Carnivours. They only eat live food. Small toads only eat various types of insects. Larger toads eat everything from insects to other amphibians, to mice and fish. When tadpoles hatch from the egg, they do eat pond algae, so that is the only time they eat any vegetation at all. As soon as they get on land, they never eat any type of vegetation again. This is why it is important to "gut load" your crickets.

Lots of vegetables appears to do no harm and may be beneficial on condition that the rest of the diet is adequate.

Absolutely not. Cooked chicken bones can splinter in the cat's mouth and cause serious damage. Smaller fish bones can get lodged in the throat and cause even more damage. If your cat has a strong urge to gnaw, chewy treats are a safe alternative.

Yes. They are safe to eat, but the quality (color, flavor and texture) will be poorer than that of vegetables which have been blanched. Blanching slows or stops the action of enzymes which cause loss of flavor, color and texture.