10 'People Foods' Cats Can Eat Too

I strongly suggest before you take this for granted that you use scholar.google and investigate the facts; 99% of lists on what animals can and can't eat according to most articles on websites such as these are entirely incorrect. You still find people listing chocolate as dangerous for dogs, when in fact it is more accurate to say 'air is toxic to humans' than 'chocolate is toxic to dogs' as CO2 and even oxygen toxicity will occur in a much smaller dosage of air than is required to poison a dog (something in the line of 200 pounds of chocolate in a 12 hour period for a 16 pound dog), so please do research these things not on websites such as these but find peer reviewed vet journals on scholar.google that are reputable!

Articles like these are anecdotal, and everyone has an additional anecdotal story or two to repeat, yet few people stop and question the nonsense they hear. I was recently told by an ex 'vet nurse' that all human food except plain meat is dangerous for pets, I pointed out that it sounded like nonsense because if that were true the world wouldn't have a feral dog or cat problem as you don't find pet food or plain meat in bins! Naturally they wouldn't listen to it, but they too also still hold the belief that theobromine (although they don't know the name of the ingredient, or the LD50, or ... much of anything for that matter!) is toxic to dogs and instead argue from authority that because they were once a vet nurse they 'know' because they have 'seen it happen'. I don't doubt they've seen horrible things, but with the educational requirement for such a position being two years of high school minimum I do doubt that they know what they saw when they saw it.

So, don't fall for pseudoscience, investigate, research, read and educate yourself solidly. It's very easy to find the LD50 of toxins and there is plenty of material on animal welfare available to be read in reputable journals and not on websites maintained by communities or one or two people with strange ideas.

I'm not saying this article specifically is wrong, I am saying don't trust anything that isn't in a peer reviewed source, ever. Read up on it yourself, verify claims that don't sound right. Because most of the time if it sounds like alarmist nonsense, it probably is!

Was happy to see bananas on the list. When we started finding dried up peelings under the bed we began to suspect one of our six furry children. Then, we found the suspect pulling a peeling from the 'dumpy bowl' under our kitchen sink. Now we keep a lid on the bowl but give this crazy kitty a strip of peeling and a small piece of a banana now and then as a treat.

and he likes to lick random stuff like penises and what not

I just feed my cat random stuff and he turned out fine.

I just feed my cat

"Talk it over with your vet" if you're interested in making your cat 100% vegetarian? Any vet worth their salt will tell you what to do with that idea. Cats are obligate carnivores. That means they have to eat meat. No choice about it.

Cats really should not have tuna at all - it is too rich for them and carries the danger of yellow fat disease. Generally, the felids have a lot of idiosyncrasies which mean they react differently to most other animals to a lot of foods and drugs, which is why they should not be treated with things like aromatherapy oils either.

And yes, of course it's nonsense that cats shouldn't have raw meat, but be aware of the bacteria that can be present from the processing and that cooking gets rid of things like salmonella that wouldn't be a risk if the cat catches its own. If they do, they should be wormed regularly.

Cats will be cats they survive esp. those alley cats

For sure - dry food is killing all our pets - they can't digest the stuff especially as they get older. Also the source of so many urinary tract infections in male cats. Actually most of the wet food is OK if you stick to the ones that say NO BY PRODUCTS. Another thing to watch out for - the white coating on the inside of the cat food can lids - may cause cancer.

What about alley cats? Do they know the rules about cheese and canned fish?

Bananas...really? My cat turns her head even when I get near her with 'em!.....however, she does love real wheat grass - she finds no difference between "kitty grass" in the cat food section at $5.99, and the 'people grass' in the vegetable section for $2.99....yep - deli meats, eggs and cheese all get a "meow" in gratitude...ahhh