Fish Oil
I’m in general pretty good at doing things I find disgusting. Cleaning a shower drain from hair? Feline and human excrements? No problem.
For a long time, I had only dog poop (seriously, this is one of the reasons why I’d never get a dog) on my “hello gag reflex” list … until I ordered salmon oil. Believe me, Finnish is known for its great variety of swearwords, but non of them described what I felt when I opened this bottle.
The fish oil was to help my cats with hairballs. Both love butter and olive oil, but I thought that salmon oil would be even better because cats can’t utilize vegetable fat and proteins. Although I eat mainly vegetarian food, bloody offals don’t disgust me. I’d like to feed BARF (a raw food diet) in the long run, and started giving them fresh meat and offals. That being said, I won’t buy salmon oil again. I was glad when it finally expired in January – I gagged every time I saw this bottle in my fridge. Which is weird, because I didn’t mind storing feline diarrhea for the lab last summer. Fish oil is definitely worse than diarrhea!
So we’ll go back to butter every now and then. Have you ever tried fish oil? I still think it’s a great alternative to butter. Tessa and Kajsa loved it, and it’s a useful supplement for our carnivores.
February 12, 2016 @ 05:26
Fish oil is so good for cats! In the US, we can buy fish oil capsules. I’ll bet you could find capsules, too. Or you could buy them on Amazon. Just prick the capsule with a push pin and pour the contents on the cats’ food.
February 12, 2016 @ 08:18
Yes, can you get capsules ? Or whole salmon ?
February 12, 2016 @ 09:47
Oh, capsules would indeed be a great option! Sigh. Sometimes it’s very hard to come up with easy solutions.
February 12, 2016 @ 14:16
I sometimes add sardine anchovy fish oil. The bottle says “unscented” but I can definitely smell a fish! It’s not too bad, but the label “unscented” is a little misleading 🙂
February 12, 2016 @ 16:29
I have never tried salmon oil and I don’t plan to now- ick!
February 13, 2016 @ 00:15
Capsules are much more convenient, but the whole salmon sounds much tastier.
February 13, 2016 @ 00:22
Like others have said, we can get fish oil in capsules. The mom has done that with us and squirted the liquid in the capsules on our food. Unfortunately, we are not fans of fish oil. Strange for cats, don’t you think?