Kitty vitamins

I take vitamins to offset nutrients I don't get with the food I eat. As I was taking my vitamin this morning, a thought popped into my mind.

Is there a vitamin or something to give to my 1 year old cat? I worry sometimes she isn't getting what she needs from her food.

She does not eat dry. She will only eat fancy feast classics pate non fish flavors. Yes, I've tried others--next post will be about that-but I got to thinking if humans take vitamins why not animals?

Any thoughts? I worry she isn't getting what she needs and I don't trust the food manufacturers.

 Hi there. Fancy Feast is supplemented with everything a cat needs. Adding a vitamin could cause  an overdose and some are serious. I understand having a hard time trusting the pet food companies but you don't want to start guessing what the food might be lacking and give too much.

She will be fine on any supplemented food.

smitten4kittens said:

 Hi there. Fancy Feast is supplemented with everything a cat needs. Adding a vitamin could cause  an overdose and some are serious. I understand having a hard time trusting the pet food companies but you don't want to start guessing what the food might be lacking and give too much.
She will be fine on any supplemented food.

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No vitamin supplements are needed, and could be dangerous.

There are supplements that can help her, just like sometimes we take supplements that aren't necessarily "vitamins."

She would benefit from an omega 3 supplement (in cats, it has to be an animal-based supplement, a fish oil of some kind. I prefer to use salmon or krill oil for my cats). The adult dose is 500mg a day. I just puncture the softgel with a knife and squeeze it onto the wet food. :nod:

I also give my cats a probiotic daily. The high protein diet doesn't provide much of a substrate for healthy gut bacteria growth. Cats in the wild get a dose of probiotics with every meal they eat, because they eat the entire GI system of those little mammals and birds, etc. So on the advice of our holistic vet, I give our cats a human acidophilus+bifidus supplement with 10 billion CFU (colony forming units) every morning. Again - I just open the capsule and sprinkle it on their food. She doesn't recommend pet probiotics because of a) the inconsistency of how active they are given lower processing/manufacturing standards, and b) most are made from fermenation products, which are not live cultures.

For kittens, use half the amounts recommended for adults.