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ickplant@lemmy.world to Mildly Interesting@lemmy.world · 6 days ago

Cats can drink salt water

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Cats can drink salt water

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ickplant@lemmy.world to Mildly Interesting@lemmy.world · 6 days ago
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  • Warl0k3@lemmy.world
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    This is true within limits

    On average, a 5-kg cat needs around 250 ml of water a day. 250 ml of seawater contains about 8.75 g of salt, and the fatal dose of salt for a 5-kg cat would be 20 g of salt. In other words, this ability works within certain limits, so please don’t go out of your way to give salt water to your cat.

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      Still, that’s pretty impressive. Cats are absolutely incredible animals. I’m thankful the “worst behaved cats” still love me for whatever reason because I’ve been able to see some of the crazy shit they do.

      My parents have an entirely blind 18 year old cat. She can navigate the entire house eats fine, plays a bit. Hops up and down furniture, finds the sunbathing spots, uses the litter just fine. You do have to keep an eye out for her if your moving around as she can’t smell fast enough if you step in front of her path.

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      The fact that you need to tell people not to intentionally give their cat salt water is telling of how far we’ve regressed as a society.

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