Your cat needs a meat-based diet for providing animal protein

Just like humans, cats need a diet with a lot of proteins, but you have to reduce the number of carbohydrates because they can have a negative impact on the health of your pets. To be more specific, if your cat eats a lot of carbs, it is more likely to gain weight and to develop other cardiac issues. Additionally, it is important to know that cats can’t be vegetarians!

According to Jennifer Coates, DVM, a veterinarian writing for Chewy, “a study published in 2011 showed that when cats are given access to foods of different protein, fat, and carbohydrate concentrations they tend to self-select a diet that provides them with around 52 percent of their calories from protein, 36 percent from fat, and 12 percent from carbohydrates.”