🍹Early to RISA 🧉@sh.itjust.worksM to Greentext@sh.itjust.works · 3 months agoAnon finds a new way to get proteinsh.itjust.worksimagemessage-square68fedilinkarrow-up1462arrow-down16
arrow-up1456arrow-down1imageAnon finds a new way to get proteinsh.itjust.works🍹Early to RISA 🧉@sh.itjust.worksM to Greentext@sh.itjust.works · 3 months agomessage-square68fedilink
minus-squareripripripriprip@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up3·3 months agoThat’s just…wrong? Cats have incredible kidneys and they can drink salt water.
minus-squarestarman2112@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up4·3 months agoTo save other readers a search “Anything over one gram of salt per two pounds of body weight is cause for concern,” which means for a 5 lbs cat, it would take 2.5 grams of salt to cause concern. That is approximately 10 small orders of fries at McDonald’s, or two entire bags of salty ass chips Of course they get sodium from their food so don’t feed them chips, but also yeah they can eat a ton of salt
minus-squaresugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up2·3 months agoYeah, if I ate a gram of salt for every pound of my body weight, I’d be eating 1/3c of salt. That’s a lot of salt! Dietary recommendation is 2.5-5g/day of table salt (I think that roughly correlates to sodium labels), and 1g/2lb would be about 20-40x that. Nuts!
That’s just…wrong? Cats have incredible kidneys and they can drink salt water.
To save other readers a search
“Anything over one gram of salt per two pounds of body weight is cause for concern,” which means for a 5 lbs cat, it would take 2.5 grams of salt to cause concern. That is approximately 10 small orders of fries at McDonald’s, or two entire bags of salty ass chips
Of course they get sodium from their food so don’t feed them chips, but also yeah they can eat a ton of salt
Yeah, if I ate a gram of salt for every pound of my body weight, I’d be eating 1/3c of salt. That’s a lot of salt!
Dietary recommendation is 2.5-5g/day of table salt (I think that roughly correlates to sodium labels), and 1g/2lb would be about 20-40x that. Nuts!