{"id":121,"date":"2020-12-07T17:25:51","date_gmt":"2020-12-07T17:25:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/purrfectpawpages.com\/?p=121"},"modified":"2020-12-10T21:27:32","modified_gmt":"2020-12-10T21:27:32","slug":"can-cats-live-on-dog-food","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/purrfectpawpages.com\/2020\/12\/07\/can-cats-live-on-dog-food\/","title":{"rendered":"Can Cats Live Off of Dog Food?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Nope! Cats have to eat cat food. This is because they need a specific level of taurine in their diet. Taurine is an amino acid which is a type of protein important for feline heart and eye health. Dog food just doesn\u2019t have high enough levels.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But don&#8217;t worry, if your cat eats an occasional dog kibble, this won&#8217;t hurt your cat. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"867\" height=\"1300\" src=\"https:\/\/purrfectpawpages.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/pexels-photo-3318215.jpeg\" alt=\"black and white bicolor cat\" class=\"wp-image-122\" srcset=\"https:\/\/purrfectpawpages.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/pexels-photo-3318215.jpeg 867w, https:\/\/purrfectpawpages.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/pexels-photo-3318215-200x300.jpeg 200w, https:\/\/purrfectpawpages.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/pexels-photo-3318215-683x1024.jpeg 683w, https:\/\/purrfectpawpages.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/pexels-photo-3318215-768x1152.jpeg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 867px) 100vw, 867px\" \/><figcaption>Photo by NastyaSensei on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pexels.com\/photo\/black-and-white-bicolor-cat-3318215\/\" rel=\"nofollow\">Pexels.com<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"entry-summary\">\nNope! Cats have to eat cat food. This is because they need&hellip;\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/purrfectpawpages.com\/2020\/12\/07\/can-cats-live-on-dog-food\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &ldquo;Can Cats Live Off of Dog Food?&rdquo;<\/span>&hellip;<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":144,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/purrfectpawpages.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/purrfectpawpages.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/purrfectpawpages.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purrfectpawpages.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purrfectpawpages.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=121"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/purrfectpawpages.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":212,"href":"https:\/\/purrfectpawpages.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121\/revisions\/212"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purrfectpawpages.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/144"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/purrfectpawpages.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=121"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purrfectpawpages.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=121"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purrfectpawpages.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=121"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}