crazy, here’s what can happen

With the advent of confinement, many Italians have decided to adopt a pet, especially cats. This is an ever-increasing trend, which has resulted in many kittens eventually voiding and many kittens being removed from the streets, a place that poses a serious danger to them. Cats are animals that, contrary to what many think, need constant attention and to create a good and healthy daily routine, starting with nutrition.

Many owners wondered how the food they bought tasted for their four-legged friends and, above all, if it was edible for us humans. Someone more daring decided to try crisps, pâtés or other feline dishes: they had no serious consequences. We decided to ask our experts for their valuable advice, let’s see together what could happen if we decided to ingest food intended for our little four-legged friend.

As already mentioned, those people who decided to try these foods do not have serious physical consequences, they get away with some gastrointestinal disturbances. Experts tell us that the food formulated for our feline friends is studied and formulated to provide the animal with the nutrients it needs to lead a healthy life without nutritional deficiencies. Admittedly, the needs of a cat are extremely different from those of us humans: this therefore does not lead to serious consequences, but we certainly only absorb a part of the nutrients we need.

If it was an occasional experience, we should not worry at all, nothing harmful will happen to us, but if it consolidates as a daily habit, we could encounter serious nutritional deficiencies, since vitamins, important proteins would be missing. , minerals and various sugars. This could cause serious damage to our immune system, eventually weakening us and therefore making us more susceptible to any pathogenic bacteria or virus with the ability to establish pathologies.

Another important factor to highlight is that food for cats is often composed of very low quality raw materials, those that are considered rare for us. The meat used is almost always imported from foreign countries where hygiene and health standards are absolutely not respected and the animals come from intensive farming. This happens because there is no legal obligation to declare the origin of the meat.