Are there any human foods that are safe for cats to eat? What are they?

Like about 80% of human adults, cats are generally lactose intolerant; don't give them any excess of dairy product.

They can generally do fine with meat, especially things like thinly sliced ham. No starches, generally, though I doubt they'll eat those anyway. We ran out of cat food once and gave our cats leftover steak, though we had to heat it to tenderize it.

Giving cats human food is a bad idea. Their stomachs cannot handle the food like we can. Their stomach acid isn't strong enough to break down many foods.

Some people feed their cat raw diets (check google on recipes). I wouldn't feed a cat tuna often because of not only the mercury, the lack of taurine which is an essential nutrient for cat health. If you have nothing else and HAVE to feed a cat tuna, make sure it's tuna in water.

Try not to give it starchy foods such as corn or potatoes - white rice can be okay for an upset tummy. Avoid cat foods that are high in carbs and go for the more meaty ones.

Like all animals, the domestic cat needs a diet that is properly balanced and contains all the essential nutrients in the correct quantities. These nutrients are water, protein, fat, carbohydrate, minerals and vitamins.

The wild members of the cat family, such as the lion, tiger, cheetah and European wild cats, are carnivores. Between them they hunt and kill a wide variety of other animals, ranging in size from small lizards and birds to large antelopes. They don’t just eat the meat or muscle, but consume all, or almost all, of their prey, including the skin, hair or feathers, and the internal organs such as liver kidneys and intestines. Their diet therefore contains a substantial amount of animal protein, and supplies them with all the other essential nutrients that they require.

To remain healthy, domestic cats also require a diet containing animal protein. This is because they need a particular amino acid (one of the blocks of protein) called taurine, which helps to prevent heart and eye diseases. Taurine is plentiful in animal protein, but only present in small amounts in plant protein.

While dogs are able to manufacture the amino acid taurine within their body, cats can only manufacture a little, and it is not enough to meet their needs, and plant protein cannot supply them with enough to make up the shortfall. Therefore, although a pet dog could remain healthy if fed properly balanced vegetarian diet, a cat could not. For this reason cats are known as obligatory carnivores; they must eat some animal protein on a daily basis in order to survive

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Any meat that a human can eat is acceptable for cats. Dogs eat vegetables; cats eat meat.

dont feed your cat cooked chicken.... or if you do ONLY ONCE IN A BLUE MOON AND IN SMALL AMOUNTS!!

it really is not good for them... most people dont know this... but now you do.

other than that ... meats, non boney fish, my cats have a tendency to want to try anything im eating... dont really start them on human foods though..

Milk, some de-boned fish but no canned tuna cuz of the mercury. Most ppl try to stay away from this though mostly cuz many human foods are poisonous to animals such as chocolate.

Carrots, Brown Rice, Chicken, Tuna (get whole white alabacore the more expensive the better less mecury but shouldnt be fed to much to avoid mecury poisining)

cats can eat almost anything, obviously its best that 99% of their diet is proper cat food, but my cats will eat all sorts, ham, dog food, dinner scraps, bread, cheese, all meats and fish, potato, peanuts etc

usually meats like:

Turkey, ham, chicken, steak, pork

I feed these to my cats a lot.

my cats eat meat all the time

as in steak, pork, chicken etc

i also give my cats mashed potatoes sometimes, not alot, basically just a little taste of it