Stray cats can eat a small amount of salted fish, but not too much. Because cats have a moderate demand for salt, when cats ingest salted fish containing high salt content, it will irritate the gastrointestinal mucosa, cause inflammation, increase the osmotic pressure of gastrointestinal contents, cause tissue dehydration, functional disorders, and in severe cases, Will damage the central nervous system. Moreover, they have no sweat glands on their skin, so the salt in the body must be excreted through the kidneys. If they eat too much salt, it will increase the load on the kidneys and lead to kidney failure. When feeding salted fish to cats, try to soak the salt in the fish with water, and don’t give too much.

Precautions for cats eating salted fish:

1. You can soak the salted fish in hot water for ten minutes to soak out the salt, and then feed it to the cat. Do not give too much at one time. .

2. If you experience vomiting, diarrhea, indigestion and other reactions after eating salted fish, you can give your cat more water to drink and then feed probiotics to relieve the symptoms.

3. You can also choose some fresh fish and feed it after cooking, but you cannot feed raw fish directly to cats. Raw fish carries a lot of parasites and will be transmitted to cats.