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Category: Sweetener
3 entries in the sweetener category — sorted by risk.
Xylitol is well documented as dangerous to dogs, causing a rapid insulin release and blood-sugar crash — the evidence specific to cats is much thinner, with far fewer confirmed feline cases in the veterinary literature, but the caution still stands given how severe the dog reaction is and how little cat-specific research exists to rule it out. Chewing gum is the most common way a cat would encounter it, and gum brings its own separate choking and intestinal-blockage risk regardless of what sweetener it contains.
Honey sits at the safer end of this category — small amounts are generally considered fine for adult cats — but it isn't risk-free for every cat: honey can occasionally carry botulism spores that are dangerous to very young kittens or immunocompromised cats, and its sugar content isn't something a cat's diet is built to process regularly.
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Caution — unsafe in amount or frequency (1)
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