Dogs and cats eating raw meat will increase their wildness and increase the chance of disease (parasites). For pets that are generally wanted by families, it is best to eat cooked meat to reduce the chance of disease infection.
Is it good for cats and dogs to eat raw fish and meat? This should be treated differently, such as:
1. Domestic pets usually eat dog food or human food, and they like raw fish and meat. Eating raw fish and meat occasionally will cause gastrointestinal discomfort: Dogs and cats have been domesticated and kept at home for many years, and they have long been used to it. Without the human diet, we no longer know what raw meat tastes like. Over the years, its intestines and stomach have gradually changed, and are no longer suitable for digesting raw meat. Just like us, eating some sashimi or raw beef by chance can easily cause diarrhea.
2. Studies have shown that raw meat may contain Toxoplasma cysts, Echinococcus granulosus, Cysticercus of Ancylostoma, Trichinella spiralis larvae, etc. Dogs and cats can be infected after eating. If you eat raw fish, shrimp and snails, you can be infected with a variety of trematodes. "Chinese Journal of Zoonoses" reported in the first issue in 1991 that the incidence of clonorchiasis in cats in Beijing was as high as 94% due to eating raw fish and shrimp. The diseases mentioned above are all zoonotic diseases that can also infect humans and are quite harmful.
3. Cats and dogs that play games or have special purposes need to maintain a certain degree of wildness and explosiveness. If they are often fed raw fish and meat since birth, they will not cause gastrointestinal discomfort, because they have already adapted to this kind of food, and Certain antibodies are also produced against some viruses and bacteria.
4. Raw meat, fish and shrimp may also contain a variety of pathogenic bacteria such as salmonella and E. coli. If they go rancid in summer, these bacteria may also produce toxins, which is more harmful to dogs and cats.
Therefore, when we feed raw fish and meat to our pet cats and dogs at home, we must handle them properly before feeding them.