Cats can eat dried freshwater fish. Freshwater fish is rich in protein and carbohydrates, which can provide energy and nutrition to cats. Dried freshwater fish can be stored for a long time and can be used as a long-term food source for cats. However, you cannot eat large amounts of fish for a long time. You can only eat fish in small amounts as snacks. Long-term eating of fish will cause malnutrition and indigestion in cats. It is recommended that cat owners usually use cat food as their cat’s main food.

Precautions when feeding fish to cats:

1. Before feeding freshwater fish, the fish should be cooked in clean water and cats should not be allowed to eat raw fish directly. Avoid raw fish that contains a lot of bacteria, which threatens your cat’s health. Of course, during the process of cooking fish, the head, gills, internal organs and other parts should be discarded, and only the fish meat should be cooked and fed to the cat.

2. If you want to feed your cat good saltwater fish, you also need to pay special attention. Generally speaking, seawater fish have hard and thick fish bones, especially hairtail and yellow croaker, which are often eaten by people. Large fish bones are difficult for cats to chew and swallow. Once the fish bones become small, they can easily be swallowed backwards into the mouth. They may get stuck in the throat and be difficult to remove. They also pose a threat to the cat's gastrointestinal tract, and in serious cases, threaten the cat's life. Safety.

3. Some seawater fish contain large amounts of magnesium salts, which can form stones in the cat’s urethra. Therefore, cats with a history of urethral stones or a genetic history should avoid eating seawater fish as much as possible. At the same time, some seawater fish also contain a large amount of thiamine enzyme, which can decompose thiamine in food and body. If a cat is fed this kind of seawater fish for a long time, it may suffer from vitamin B deficiency, causing cervical pain, inability to pick up the neck and other symptoms, which will also have a serious impact on the cat's health.