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Cats can drink salt water (lemmy.world)

submitted 2 weeks ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 261 points 2 weeks ago (15 children)

This is true within limits

On average, a 5-kg cat needs around 250 ml of water a day. 250 ml of seawater contains about 8.75 g of salt, and the fatal dose of salt for a 5-kg cat would be 20 g of salt. In other words, this ability works within certain limits, so please don’t go out of your way to give salt water to your cat.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago

Don't tell me what to do! /s

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