Is Bread Ok For Pussies?

[Janeyk]

Food can be out for feral cat Little Blackie but he'll go eat the bird's bread 

Just explain to him that it isn't suitable for his digestive tract 

oh, I've had many a conversation with him but it doesn't sink in  actually he hasn't been for a while he was up at Sylvia's when we passed today (maybe she has better bread  ) he is a very complicated character and never quite fitted in with the other ferals and partly why I adore him 

[spud]

Food can be out for feral cat Little Blackie but he'll go eat the bird's bread 

Just explain to him that it isn't suitable for his digestive tract 

[Janeyk]

Food can be out for feral cat Little Blackie but he'll go eat the bird's bread 

[sarasara]

I don't give them marge on it because I hear that they cannot digest it.

Same can be said for the bread!

Farm cats never had the luxury of meals let alone bread and milk, nor did many people come to think about it

In Ireland and the North of Ireland it is an old tradition going back hundreds of years to give ferral cats milk and bread. But house cats these days are very well fed.

[Millys Mum]

I don't give them marge on it because I hear that they cannot digest it.

Same can be said for the bread!

Farm cats never had the luxury of meals let alone bread and milk, nor did many people come to think about it

[Kirst]

Fred-cat always used to eat the bread we put out for the birds when he was a stray  - it never seemed to do him any harm. Would think its Ok as a treat , not as a main meal!

[clarenmax]

Ahhh, Milo has very refined tastes it seems   

[Leanne]

Milo only likes naan bread 
To the point where we can't leave it unattended anymore as he pulls the bread basket to him to get at it.

[Janeyk]

I'm always really embarrassed when I throw bread out for the birds as the boys home in on it and start to eat it, I bet the neighbours think I don't feed them properly 

Our Penny always did that 

[sarasara]

I'm always really embarrassed when I throw bread out for the birds as the boys home in on it and start to eat it, I bet the neighbours think I don't feed them properly 

Riley has also munched his way through a banana loaf that was foolishly left out on the side! 

Particularly as the little dears have already been very well fed and you don't want them to get overweight. I have exactly the same thing here in the winter, the poor little birds are hungry and all sitting up in the trees while Sophie  sits in their bread and clicks her teeth looking at them. I intend to build a bird house this year out of bits of wood and nail it to the top of the clothesline.

[Tiggy's Mum]

I'm always really embarrassed when I throw bread out for the birds as the boys home in on it and start to eat it, I bet the neighbours think I don't feed them properly 

Riley has also munched his way through a banana loaf that was foolishly left out on the side! 

[Mark]

Willow loves toast crumbs. A local shop sells hot sausagemeat encroutes and we had them for lunch on Saturday. Willow was sniffing round so a gave her a bit of sausagemeat. She ignored it and started licking the pastry crumbs off my plate  

[sarasara]

Marmite was the original source of the problem but it's high salt content means I would not give even a small amount now just as I would never give the cats anything sweet beause they never wash their teeth.

I am wondering if she needs some sort of vitamin that is making her so hungry?

The problem is that the more you feed the more distended the belly gets and the hungrier they get. So while it is emotionally very hard to refuse her I have to when I can see by her tummy that she is a little bit more fed than usual.

One thing that makes a cat ravenously hungry is if they eat a mouse or a bird, it seems to have the effect that drinking juice when you are thirsty; the more you drink the thirstier you get.

So I will just give her a few tiny bits of bread 2 square inches in a day, but only if she is really demanding it. I don't give them marge on it because I hear that they cannot digest it. But I womnder if she needs a vitamin that is in wholemeal?

Cats! What a worry

[Gillian Harvey]

Yep, agree its not really suitable - but that doesnt stop 'em  liking it LOL!

Poot likes bread as well, especially if it has marmite on it 

LOL! mine all like their marmite fix too   

[clarenmax]

I'd say an occasional tiny titbit is OK, but on a regular basis, probably not.

Poot likes bread as well, especially if it has marmite on it 

[Christine (Blip)]

I'd discourage that, sarasara.  If you consider what a cat's natural diet would be, processed wheat wouldn't come into it.  The cat's digestive system is that of an obligate carnivore so bread won't do Miss Sophie any good in the long run.

[sarasara]

Miss Sophie has suddenly developed an appetite for my wholemeal bread which she used not to be interested in unless it had some marge on it, though I rarely gave her any and even then only a bite.  I know in the countryside it has been traditional for hundreds of years to feed outdoor cats a mixture of milk and bread (I never give her milk) but then she is a very well fed indoor cat.

Is wholemeal bread ok?