The big Thanksgiving holiday. It’s a time many of us spend with family and friends, and one of the centerpieces of the holiday for most families is the big Thanksgiving dinner.
Your cat may have varying opinions about this.
Ashton: When do they serve the turkey?
Newton: Forget turkey. I want to dive into the whipped cream!
Pierre: Does this mean visitors for dinner? Tell me when they’re gone.
Cats like Pierre are mostly immune to Thanksgiving dinner hazards, but cats like Newton and Ashton will put on their holiday best to be able to share in your Thanksiving feast. Is it safe to share with them?
A little taste of boneless, well-cooked turkey is safe for your cat, but hold the stuffing! Stuffing usually contains onions, which aren’t safe for cats. Sweet potatoes are safe, but don’t share them if you don’t know what they were prepared with, the essential oils in some herbs and spices can cause gastrointestinal upset. Similarly, pumpkin, which vets recommend for feline constipation, isn’t the same thing as a pumpkin pie full of spices. Consider holding a little pumpkin aside when making your pie if you want to share with your kitty.
The most important thing is moderation. A little taste of your mashed potatoes is all right, but your cat doesn’t need a meal of them. Kitties may love the novelty of interesting food smells at the holidays, but share sparingly and keep up their regular diet to avoid upset stomachs.
References
The Health Benefits Pumpkin Provides our Pets, PetMD
Thanksgiving Safety Tips, ASPCA
I have my paws crossed that my human brings home some turkey on Thanksgiving! ‘Cause apparently we aren’t having one here.
Alex used to love turkey. we once started to make a sandwich, walked away to answer the phone and found only bread when we came back!
We never get much of a taste of turkey but mostly because we don’t like it.
Our peeps are going someplace else for turkey this year. So we don’t know if we’ll be getting any turkey. Rats. But the mom better not forget to give us whipped cream…no matter what!
Good advice ! We don’t celebrate Thanksgiving here, but we’ll keep your advice under the paw for Christmas ! Purrs
We don’t celebrate Thanksgiving but it doesn’t stop us wanting treats!
Luv Hannah and Lucy xx xx
Great advice! Truffles is already counting down the days ’til turkey time 🙂
ashton….trust uz….forget de burd…
🙂
hope yur week oh end bee filled with sea bass shrimp & sardeenz ♥
great tips. we are very finicky with human food. we only like tuna, turkey, chikun and deli meats 🙂
This is our first Thanksgiving at our new house and mom is going somewhere else for dinner! Hope she brings us home some treats, but if not, I know she will make us something special of our own.
mmmm.. turkey.. 😉
That is hilarious and exactly how I feel. I love love love turkey
Hugs madi your bfff
All,the kitties like turkey! Well Annabelle loves dairy but I don’t let her have much.
The only turkey I get is out of a tin because mum doesn’t like it. I don’t like people food though, so I wouldn’t eat it anyway.
Oh How adowable they all look. It’s so funny how in da same house we can act so diffewently to fings. MOL
Luv ya’
Dezi and Lexi
Are YOU having turkey and whipped cream? We will be there right away!
I would love to set my tunnel for your house. May I? Mom and all the brovvers are going to her son’s wife’s mother’s house. Whew. Lotta words. So no cooking here.
Me loves whipped cream, too, Newton!
Purrs,
Carmine
ummmm…ahhhh…Newton…that Gingerbread House looked like it just might have been a teeny tiny tight fit for your bum buddy…not suggesting anything…just an observation
well, thankfully, The Kid Sage is the only one who might be distantly interested in the turkey, not much else. And the peeps are headed out to dine out…so all she can hope for is some left over turkey. Great post!
I only eat the turkey anyway although I do like to sit in the cranberry jelly.
We don’t get human food. Pffft! And the humans will be helping serve at our Rescue Mission so NO Thanksgiving noms at our house. Pffft! Hope you will join us for our Sunday Selfies Blog Hop. XOCK, Lily Olivia, Mauricio, Misty May, Giulietta, Fiona, Astrid, Lisbeth ad Calista Jo
We are TOTALLY holding out for the turkey noms. BUT, rumor has it SOME humans are WORKING. HRMPF.