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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
That’s just…wrong? Cats have incredible kidneys and they can drink salt water.
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
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!
Didja cook it?
No. That wouldn’t be repreaentative of what cats experience.
It’s already cooked in the can
Really? Figured it was raw.
…is the raw can cheaper?
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.
Eating rotten canned food is just the poor man’s Botox treatment
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botulism has gotta drive the price down.
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.
Surely this is easily exploitable…