more info on dangers of tuna for cats

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Here's more info:

However, tuna in fact isn't good for cats, but tuna juice is fine if only to

entice a cat.

Cats with urinary problems should avoid any seafoods as they are high in

phosphorous

and changes the urinary pH which can contribute to the lower urinary disorders.

Please see

the following article: http://us.iams.com/iams/en_US/jsp/IAMS_P...

Here's an article on why tuna is dangerous:

Here's a web article about Tuna and how it is toxic to cats (again any vet can

confirm this

fact as well): http://www.lenhumanesoc.org/Tips/ASPCA-T...

" TUNA FOR CATS? NO!

Tuna can be fatal to cats and is not something to be fed to them...The human

variety of

tuna fish contains an enzyme that destroys vitamin B1 (thiamine). Cats who

regularly eat

tuna can develop a vitamin B1 deficiency, which results in neurological symptoms

like

dilated eyes, loss of equilibrium, seizures and death if this vitamin is not

replaced. The

scientific name of this disease is polioencephlomalacia.

Clearwater veterinarian Brancato said that though most domestic cats do

enjoy

fish, feeding them a diet of only tuna can cause serious disorders.

Although it is high in protein, tuna lacks sufficient amounts of certain amino

acids, mainly

taurine, to maintain feline health. There is insufficient calcium to balance the

phosphorus;

the ratio in canned tuna is 1-to-14.8. This results in bone disease.

Many essential vitamins such as A and most B vitamins are also lacking, Brancato

said. A

common disease in cats fed a mainstay of canned tuna is steatitis, or yellow fat

disease,

an inflammation of the fat tissue in the body due to a deficiency of vitamin E.

Source: St. sburg Times, published May 14, 2000 "

Here's another answer by a veterinarian just recently about the dangers of tuna:

http://answers./question/index;...

A Veterinarian Answered:

.... Actually, it is.

I've had to treat numerous cats over the years for pretty severe enteritis

resulting from

eating tuna meat. One of my own babies got so ill from it when someone else left

it sitting

out on the counter for 5 minutes while he turned his back to take a phone call,

that I had

to put her on IV fluids for 2 days, in addition to intestinal medications.

How many cats do you know who go swimming in the ocean to catch tuna and eat it

as

part of their natural diet???

Tuna-FLAVORED food....okay. Tuna meat.....bad.

I 'love' brownies....but that doesn't mean they're good for me. Cats also 'love'

antifreeze....but we all know what it will do to them. :-/

The most you should do is to use the water that is drained off from the can of

tuna (not

the oil...for another reason), and drizzle it over their dry cat food once or

twice a month.

They'll think they died and went to cat heaven!....but without the danger.

Save the tuna meat for your sandwiches.

Source(s):

I'm a Doctor of Veterinary Medicine with 20 yrs exp in private practice (27

total years in

the profession.)

--- In , " Gaiacita " <gaiacita@...>

wrote:

>

> I give both my dogs and my cats AMMS. Simple. Mix up the AMMS but do not

> add water, then put the AMMS into their favorite treat food. For my dogs

> this is anything humans eat. Lol For the cats this is tuna in water. I

> put a bit of tuna in their dish, stir in the AMMS--it turns the tuna brown,

> but the cats don't care. Set that in front of them and they gobble it up,

> because otherwise they rarely get tuna. So it is a big treat and they could

> care less what is mixed in with it. You just need to find something your

> dog really likes.

>

> For cats it is 1 drop MMS and 5 drops citric, for the dogs it is 3 drops MMS

> per 25 pounds of weight and the correct number of acid drops.

>

> Samala,

>

>

> -------Original Message-------

>

> I am adding UMMS to my dogs' water though. I would give them the AMMS but I'm

not

sure how to get it into them. I tried giving it to them via syringe (without

needle) into their

mouths but they just made it too hard for me so I gave up. It would have taken

a quite a

lot of time to get 1/3 glass of MMS/water into them both.

>