I have heard that a male cat can get kidney stones if you feed them a seafood only diet. Is this true?

Answer 1

I have not heard that before. However, male cats are more at risk for a condition where crystals form in the bladder and block the urethra...you will see your cat struggling to go to the bathroom...returning over and over... this can be lethal. As for seafood only...never heard of a risk.

Answer 2

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Answer 3

Kidney stones is a possibility, but what is more likely is the cat will get a disease called Hypervitamosis A which is basically toxicity from too much vit A. Pansteatitis (yellow fat disease) from lack of vitamin E is also likely.

A cat on a seafood only diet will also not be getting near enough calcium. I saw a very tragic case recently where a 6 month old cat had been brought up on tuna only, and it had ricketts (calcium deficiency). It's limbs were malformed and it could only crawl or walk sideways like a crab. He only looked about 8 weeks old, and eventually went into renal (kidney) failure and had to be put to sleep.

Moral of the story? NEVER feed a cat on seafood only, it is very dangerous to their health. They must have a balanced diet of high quality cat food, wet or dry or both.

Chalice

Answer 4

I do not know if that is true but because of the phospourous content in seafood, you are looking for trouble down the line.
I also think that it is not baolanced as cats are carnivores. Seafood on oiccasion is fine but i would keep the amount under 25% of the time. A chucken based food would be best and hopefully you are feeding canned foods only w/o gravy.
Best of luck

Answer 5

You do not say what type of seafood you are feeding your cat. If it is canned human-type tuna, salmon, whatever it contains no taurine - an essential amino acid for cats. They cannot make it in their bodies as humans and dogs can so their food must be RAW meat or a cat food that has taurine added.

You could go to: http://www.littlebigcat.com and read Dr. Jean Hovfe's article "Why Fish is Dangerous for Cats". Long-term use of tuna can cause a fatal anemia in cats. There may be something in fish that causes stones in cats. The stones come from a urine that is too acidic, crystals form when the urine that is too alkaline.

Answer 6

Yes. My vet explained it this way. When they eat fish in the wild, they eat the whole thing, when we feed them seafood we usually only give selected parts and they miss out on the things in the rest of the fish. My cat got kidney failure from eating too much dry food, it had too much phosphorus in it and he was hospitalized twice each a year apart. I switched him to the Purina UR formula I get from the vet and it has been 3 years without any problems. The vet said any kind of wet food was okay but only the UR for dry food.

Answer 7

I do know that male cats can get stones if they don't drink enough.
If you have a male cat, try to mix another type of food into the seafood diet, assuming that he prefers seafood. Cats are finicky eaters, but it has been shown that they prefer the shape of the food more than the taste. Try to find a similarly shaped food.

Answer 8

I haven't heard that, but with a little grain of common sense, one can come to the conclusion that an all ___(insert whichever here) for anyone, animals or human, both, can be a bad thing. A single food cannot give us nor an animal all the vital nutrients and vitamins, fats and proteins needed to survive.

Even Vegans and vegetarians have to supplement to make up for their lack of essential proteins missing from their diet :)

Answer 9

I hope this helps, it has detailed information on kidney and bladder stones in cats and dogs.

Answer 10

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http://www.littlebigcat.com/index.php?action=library

IT'S FANTASTIC AND HELPS UNRAVEL SOME OF THE FEEDING MYSTERY.

Please don't feed them an "all anything" diet - if it is deficient in anything, and u feed your pet the same thing year after year - you are dooming your pet