is garlic bad? ?

hello everyone..

is garlic bad for cats? i heard onions are bad for cats..what about garlic?

thanks

 

yeah, I'm pretty certain that garlic is bad too.

 

Actually, garlic is an ingredient in Wellness brand cat food. Maybe in large quantities it's bad, but obviously not in small doses.

See link: http://www.omhpet.com/cats/wellness_detail.asp?pCode=canCatTurkeySalmon

 

the reason i wasnt sure is because i found a cat recipe online and it has garlic in it. here is the recipe:

Seafood Crackers (The Cat's Meow)
1 can of water packed fish (salmon or tuna works best)
1 1/4 cup unbleached flour
1/4 tsp garlic powder
Drain canned fish and mix with flour and garlic until a firm dough forms. Add flour in small amounts if mixture is too sticky to work with. Roll dough out as thin as possible on a lightly floured surface and cut with a small cookie cutter. If you don't have a bite sized cutter, use a screw-on pop bottle cap. Arrange on an ungreased cookie sheet and bake at 325 degrees for 45 minutes. Turn oven off and allow cookies to harden until crisp.

from: http://www.edmontonhumanesociety.com/justforkids.html

 

My hubby got me a book for Christmas called something like "Eating with your pets." He didn't realize that the author is a raw foodist with a dietary agenda when he picked it out.

However, I did get a nice laugh out of the book and it has a bunch of cute pictures of a human with a cat or a dog and a plate of food in front of them. However. !! If this lady seriously thinks my cats are going to eat tomato salad, she's been smoking something illegal :roll:
There are only 4 recipes with meat in them, and therefore only 4 recipes Tobey & Ninja would touch! (tuna sashimi, beef tartare, etc)

Anyway, to come to my point (finally), she talked about garlic. She says some people believe that it is not good because it is in the onion family, but she has seen no evidence to support the claim. There was garlic powder in several of the recipes.

 

Too much garlic (depending on the individual cat) can cause heinz body anemia. I don't usually worry much about the small amount included in treat recipes, cat food or treats.

 

There is garlic added into the brewer's yeast tablets that Vianne gets everyday and it's made for cats and dogs. I've also read several places about garlic being a good part of their diet becuz it helps to tone the digestive tract and discourage parasites. I wouldn't worry about it much in small amounts. But then, who would be giving their cat massive amounts of garlic anyway? :?

 

My mums cats have garlic in the food and my dogs have it in theres.
It helps aid digestion and the well being of the digestive tract.
Also it helps keep worms at bay too.

If ground down and boiled then the water is allowed to cool and but in a spray bottle the kind you would use to spray plants and lightly spray the cat or dog or even soak a cloth in the water, squeeze out the cloth and wipe all over the animal this helps keep fleas at bay too.

For garlic to be bad for a dog they have to consume 15kg of garlic less for a cat and who in the right mind would feed that much to a animal anyway.

I was told by my vet about mixing 1-2 cloves of garlic every 2-3 days crushed up and mixed with there food to help keep there digestive tract in top condition, so it would be 1/2 -1 clove for a cat.

Hope this helps

Mike