Is it safe to feed your cat real chicken not cat food?

Answer 1

Can a cat eat cooked chicken as a treat? Yes.

Should a cat eat cooked chicken? If it was for a treat, yes. As part of the cat's main diet, no, definitely not.

Cooked meat hasn't got any of the nutrients a cat requires. Good, high quality cat food has plenty of meat and added supplements to give a cat all it needs. Raw meat contains many nutrients for a cat, but such a diet needs to be carefully planned and must also consist of organs and bone for a raw diet to be nutritionally complete and balanced.

First of all giving cats certain homemade food from time to time like roasted chicken is not a substitute for a carefully balanced diet.

Second of all claiming that cooked meal has no nutritional value for cats is not true. Cooked chicken has plenty of protein, vitamin-A, & other enzymes that are not easily destroyed during the cooking process.

Standard canned cat food is cooked and not raw. You just cannot start feeding your cats raw diet food out of the blue when they've been fed cooked can food or dry food most of their life's.

They are pets & not wild animals that are living on prey. They don't have the proper immune system to deal with many bacteria like salmonella present in raw meat like chicken.

Most important is to give them quality wet food with little or no filers or unnecessary garbage.

And yes, you have to be willing to spend money on your babes and buy the best food money can buy.

Providing your cat with high end food, proper litter, health insurance will run you about $100.00/month.

What you will get in return is priceless!

Answer 2

Cats are carnivores, so it is completely safe to feed your cat plain, unseasoned chicken on occasion.

However, cooked chicken has very little nutrients compared to raw chicken or any other raw meat, so unless you are willing to feed your cat a raw diet (which is completely safe, but requires a lot of research to get right), replacing cat food with cooked chicken is NOT a good idea or safe. Your cat will become malnourished if fed on a diet of cooked food. Even feeding raw chicken and nothing else does not provide a cat with all the nutrients it needs.

Answer 3

Only if you want your cat to choke to death! think about it!Cats will eat around the bones, they do it in the wild all the time.