Can Cats Eat Eggs?

[BantamoftheOpera]

I've got a cat who has been stalking our egg dishes. I found her in the eggsalad yesterday and I found her on the stove today eating the raw eggs out of the pan! Is it okay to suplement her feed with eggs? She's crazy about them and she's a very skinny girl. Any opinions?

 

[ARose4Heaven]

Cats LOVE eggs. Everything under the sun eats eggs. My cats will fight over a dropped egg. The protein is good for their coats.

 

[Pinky]

I don't see how it would hurt. My niece's cat loves to eat boiled eggs but never tried raw eggs.

 

[WhiteMountainsRanch]

It's great for them, but I don't think I'd feed them raw.

 

[BantamoftheOpera]

Good to know. I wasn't trying to feed them raw, but I was cooking one and I found her on the stove eating it before it fried up!

 

[Ariel301]

Raw eggs are a great treat for cats. They are high in protein and also help to make the coat shiny. I grew up always giving our cats and dogs a raw egg for breakfast. I'd be a bit nervous these days about feeding a raw egg from the grocery store, but a home grown one, no problem. Cooking them is fine too if raw worries you. Cats and dogs seem to be a little less apt to get food poisoning than people anyway, they're always eating weird junk and don't usually get sick. I joke that my Burmese cat Belle is on the raw food diet, all she wants to eat is raw milk, raw eggs, raw meat and fish, and fresh raw greens. She's super shiny and muscular, and maybe a little TOO active, so she doesn't seem to be hurting from it.

 

[Kelly G]

I give my 5 barn cats eggs frequently - and they LOVE them! The all follow me around while I collect the eggs each day. When I have eggs in my hand, I am their best friend!

 

[darkmatter]

We have barn cats, a few years ago one of them tangled with something that broke her lower jaw. She disappeared for several days, and then showed up with the injury. She could not eat even soft cat food, but she could lap up raw eggs. She ate nothing but raw eggs for two weeks before she could mouth the soft cat food. I thought she might even have gone blind in one eye as the pupil was fully dilated. After a month of soft cat food, she started to eat the regular cheapo stuff we supplement the barn cats with. She recovered now and has resumed barn cat duty, the one eye is still dilated just a bit more then the other, but she must be able to see enough for depth perception---she catches birds on the fly. She looks a little skewed jaw with a few missing teeth, but living a normal barn cat life now.

P.S. Before you berate me for not taking the half wild feral barn cat demon to the Vet, you come catch the living maelstrom of talons!

 

[Scoop]

All the cats I ever had just loved raw eggs! And I agree - it makes for a nice coat!

 

[Kelly G]

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^ THAT'S some funny stuff!!!! ^

We had to trap two of the five cats when we took them to spay/neuter. They will NEVER go into those traps again....I don't know what I'll do when their three-year rabies shot wears off. *sigh*