Thanksgiving is when we pull out the special recipes we don't use any other time fo the year. The house is full of great smells, and the family gets ready for guests for the feast. Your cats can get excited, too, because they smell that turkey cooking! Sure, you might want to share of the bounty with your cats, but not everything in the Thanksgiving feast is as good for cats as they are for people.
Can you give a cat some of your turkey? Yes, with limitations. Cooked turkey meat is a real treat, but make sure it doesn't have bones in it. Yes, cats eat bird bones in the wild, but cooked turkey bones are more brittle, and can splinter and injure a cat's mouth, or even worse, his internal organs. Pan drippings, dressing, and gravy have too much fat and seasoning for a cat. In fact, it's best to keep casseroles, pies, and any recipe with a lot of ingredients away from your cats, as there are some ingredients that are not good for cats.
Daily Paws has a list of Thanksgiving foods you can feed you cat, and another list of things to avoid giving to your feline family members. If you give them some of the feast, it's best to keep human treats to a small percentage of what they eat in a day. A couple of mouthfuls of unseasoned cooked turkey should make them quite happy, especially if they get a bite of pumpkin as well!
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