Can you feed your cat sour cream: a healthy product, but not so simple – how to avoid problems

24.01.2024 11:02

No normal cat will refuse dairy products. Animals drink milk with pleasure and eat sour cream with pleasure.

But it is not always beneficial to the pet's health. In some cases, sour cream can cause health problems.

Experts believe that you can feed your cat sour cream, but you just have to do it carefully.

Benefits of sour cream for cats

Sour cream is healthy, like any product of natural origin.

It contains proteins, amino acids, vitamins, nutrients and microelements necessary for health.

Sour cream
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Among the first to be mentioned is calcium, which is beneficial for bones.

Do no harm!

With all this said, sour cream, especially homemade sour cream, has one problem, which is the fat content of the product.

Even store-bought sour cream with a fat content of 15% is considered harmful to pets.

If you constantly pamper your pets like this, they may develop problems with their liver, pancreas, or digestion.

Therefore, kittens can be given no more than two teaspoons of sour cream per day, and adult cats no more than 70 grams.

Earlier we talked about whether it is possible to hug a dog .

Author: Igor Zur Internet resource editor

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  1. Benefits of sour cream for cats
  2. Do no harm!