Cats can eat hollow popcorn sticks. The main material of the hollow rice popcorn sticks is rice, which is compressed by a machine. It has high heat and can provide a certain amount of energy to cats. However, cats cannot eat too many hollow rice popsicle sticks, because hollow rice popsicle sticks are puffed food and contain a lot of food additives. Excessive consumption will affect the cat’s appetite.

The dangers of cats eating hollow rice popsicle sticks and other snacks for a long time:

1. Malnutrition.

The purpose of making pet snacks is to reward pets, interact with pets, or stimulate pets to chew and bite. They are mainly snacks made of meat, feed and food additives in a certain proportion. Even the snacks produced by regular manufacturers have very one-sided nutrients. They do not have scientific requirements for the proportion of each nutrient component like cat food and can be eaten alone as a cat's staple food. Therefore, if a cat eats too many snacks, it will not only affect its appetite, but also the problem of malnutrition will become increasingly prominent over time.

2. Additive deposition.

Compared with cat food, the additives in snacks are seriously excessive. It's fine if the cat eats it once in a while, but it will be metabolized in the body slowly. But the most fearful thing is that cats often eat snacks for a long time. In this case, because the cat cannot decompose them in time, more and more of these bad substances will slowly be deposited in the body. Especially if you eat cat snacks that are not of good quality, the heavy metals and toxic substances contained in them will further threaten your cat’s health.

3. Picky eaters.

If a cat gets used to the taste of snacks, it will lose interest in cat food or other staple foods. If you don’t give it snacks, the kitten will fuss and stop eating the cat food. Faced with such a situation, if you want to help the cat give up snacks in time, but cannot bear to see the cat go hungry, you will slowly fall into a willful cycle.

4. Cause the emergence of diseases.

If you give your cat snacks for a long time, it will definitely cause health problems for the cat. Moreover, sometimes we are not sure whether we are feeding it low-quality snacks. If a cat eats snacks for a long time, it will not only easily lead to indigestion, soft stools and aggravated tear stains. Moreover, most cat snacks are salty, and long-term consumption of cat snacks will affect kidney function, increase blood pressure, increase the burden on the heart, and accelerate the occurrence of heart disease.