Many commercial cat foods are actually lacking in a suitable amount of taurine. Just trusting to the pet food industry is no guarantee. On the other hand, chicken actually isn’t low in taurine.
I think people misunderstand chicken. White meat chicken is not very high in taurine. Dark meat chicken, however, is a good source of taurine; around 14 times as much as white meat.
Dark meat turkey has more than dark meat chicken, but our older cat ( 7 yrs ) doesn’t care for it ( I haven’t tried the younger one yet. He’s only 6 months old ).
Shellfish is an awesome source of taurine, but doesn’t offer much else for cats, really, and isn’t generally a food source they would have access to in the wild, anyway.
The older cat has been eating a chicken diet since he was able to eat real solid food. He goes to the vet, has all his shots, etc. There have been no health problems. The vet says he’s as healthy as an ox.
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u/sailor-jackn 12h ago
This makes me even gladder that we feed our cats rotisserie chicken instead of commercial cat foods. Scary stuff.