Originally Posted by hobbs2004

It is not good to give them just cooked chicken breast meat daily because it is not a balanced diet for cats. In addition to muscle meat - i.e the breast meat you are feeding - cats also need bones for calcium and other minerals, offal for vitamins and minerals. So, if you think about a cat's diet, think about a mouse - that is what a cat would eat; fur and all - not just some cooked chicken breast.

They also need taurine. Unlike other mammals, cats cannot synthesise taurine themselves but need to take it in with their diet. Chicken breast is very low in taurine to start off with but will have even less once cooked (though in all fairness that depends on the type of cooking).

Cooking also destroys other nutrients that your cat needs.

Also, as a rather less important aside, a lot of the pre-cooked and shredded chicken stuff contains sugar and other stuff that isn't really appropriate for a cat's diet.

As another less important aside, cats need fat in their diet so it is a fallacy to impose our way of eating/nutritional needs on to cats.



So, it is typically said that if you want to feed some unbalanced food (such as your cooked chicken breast) you can feed up to 20% of your cat's weekly meals with such food.

HTH