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Category: Meat
5 entries in the meat category — sorted by risk.
Plain cooked chicken, turkey, and pork are among the more commonly recommended protein sources for cats in moderation — but "cooked" and "plain" are both doing real work in that sentence. Raw chicken carries salmonella and campylobacter risk, both to the cat and, through litter-box and food-bowl contact, to the humans in the household.
Liver deserves its own caution even cooked: it's extremely high in vitamin A, and feeding it regularly (rather than as an occasional small treat) can build up to vitamin A toxicity, which affects bone and joint health over time. Cooked pork is generally fine in small amounts but should be plain, unprocessed, and not fed as bacon, ham, or other cured/seasoned forms, which bring in sodium and nitrate concerns of their own.
Caution — unsafe in amount or frequency (3)
Safe in small amounts (2)
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