Can They Eat This?
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Rice and Cats: Safe to Share, but Not for the Reason You Think
Plain cooked rice won't hurt your cat, and the carb panic around it is mostly overblown. The real limit is simpler: rice takes the place of the protein a cat is built to run on.
Dr. Ravi Mehta · 7 min read
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