"Joelberg" wrote

Sometimes I put tuna juice on my cat's dry food and he eats it up
faster than normally. However, I don't always eat tunafish and that
means I don't always have tuna juice available. Is it safe for my cat
(or any, for that matter) to be fed olive oil or is this dangerous?
What other oils are good to feed cats with?

Olive oil is fine. It's recommended by my vet. Other oils also are useful,
leftover from your own cooking but warning, cats are not as salt tolerant as
people. That means if you salt your chicken or dryrub it then rotissery,
that 'oil' is not good. If however you bake a plain stuffed chicken with
use of only unsalted butter for basting, it will be just fine.

Also, if you use low/no-sodium added bacon, that will also work. My husband
has to be on a reduced sodium diet so my cookery leads easily to fats for
use for my pets. They do not need much and I vary them around. I do not
have problems with furballs at all with my medium-long haired furball of a
kitty G.

I know many people use petromalt and 'furball remedies' for this like it,
but my vet says adding fats or oils (again, salt free or near it) is much
better for her.

Often I do want to use a dryrub and such with a chicken, so I pull out the
innerfat and render it gently separately for the pets. I do the same with
our every-6 week duck habit g. It doesnt take long and a little goes a
long way for them.

Since we do have a variety of 'fats' going on here, the vet said best to
vary them so olive oil is just once every 3-4 days. He says my cat is doing
great and to keep it up this way. About 2 ts a day roughly. Nature's way
of giving my pets a glossy healthy coat.