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We may turn to alcohol in good times and bad, but it’s very unsafe to give to your cat.

What with the war on drugs, it’s easy to forget that alcohol is as much of a drug as any other – more so than cannabis so say. The fact that it is legal is not to do with it being safer for us to consume, but more because it’s too dangerous for us no ban it! With regards to cats, let us never forget that alcohol is “poisonous”; human beings have been consuming it in some form or another since prehistoric times and have literally evolved to handle it better than animals. Cats, on the other hand, have not. Their livers help handle the vast amounts of protein they require; not to detoxify substances like alcohol.

Repeated consumption of alcohol will cause liver damage, gastrointestinal irritation and breathing difficulties, as well as potentially comas and death. Granted this is also true in human beings, but we’re a lot bigger than cats and have evolution on our side! It may seem like a funny idea at the time, but don’t give alcohol to your cat; it’ll hurt your pet and your cat insurance policy.