Eating seafood supports joint, heart, skin and coat health.

However, excessive consumption of fish can lead to metabolic disorders, urolithiasis and rickets.

Raw fish can cause helminth infections, and too fatty fish can cause pancreatitis and digestive disorders.

In particular, dogs digest seafood better than cats.

1. Some varieties of fish (carp, herring, pike, cod, mullet, shark, flounder) contain the enzyme thiaminase, which destroys thiamine and causes its deficiency.

Symptoms: lethargy, weight loss, neurological disorders, paresis, convulsions.

However, thiaminase is destroyed by high temperatures during cooking.

2. Some varieties of fish contain trimethylamine oxide, which interferes with the assimilation of iron (Fe) in the body, which leads to its deficiency, underdevelopment of fruits and infertility, anemia.

Trimethylamine oxide is also destroyed at high temperatures.

3. Mackerel may contain histamine, so it should not be given.

4. Lobsters should not be given because they contain a large amount of cholesterol and Na.

So, the diet can include:

Hake, turbot, capelin, cod, sea bass and crucian carp, tuna, grayling, salmon, trout

Squid, crabs, shrimps, mussels - contain P, Mg, Mn, K, Fe, Cu, Zn, I, Se, vitamins A, B1, B2, B3, B5, B6, B9, D, E, Omega-3 and -6 fatty acids.

How to feed:

  • Fish must undergo heat treatment (boiling or baking);

  • The fish must be pre-cleaned from the entrails, bones and head;

  • Fish should be given no more than 2-3 times a week;

  • Seafood can be given only in boiled form and on the condition that the pet is not allergic to them;

  • It is important to give seafood in consultation with a nutritionist, as control of P and Mg is required;

  • Puppies and kittens should not be given seafood at all.

Therefore, fish and seafood are optional in the diet of animals.

They can be given if the pet is healthy and eats them with pleasure.

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