Is yogurt a complet no?

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Laly&Kitiara

Laly&Kitiara

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Hello everybody. I have a question about yogurt. My cat flips every time I open a pot. So much so, that since the diagnosis I haven’t had any until yesterday. I felt like a complete dork hiding in my bedroom and she could still smell it and kept crying at the door until I finished it.

I only eat unflavored natural sugar-free yogurt and she never eats more than a tea spoon size dollop. But I forgot to ask the vet, I did some googling and couldn’t come up with anything. I know dairies are not ideal and she never had any milk. If it is not safe I wil resign myself to reduce my own consuption and hide in the kitchen or bedroom, but I feel so bad for her when her meow sound like a cry. Her nose is really sharp when it’s about yogurt (maybe she has bloodhound genes in her! :))

It is not a big deal but if anyone has some knowledge or opinion it'll be greatly appreciated

Regards from Argentina :cat:
 
i use to give tux a tbsp every day when i made homemade greek yogurt, even after he got diagnosed with diabetes, with no issues. i only gave him 0% fat plain greek yogurt when i didn't have time to make my own though because it contains only like 8-9 grans of natural sugar compared to regular plain yogurt that has about twice the amount.
 
Dusty Bones said:
It's ok as long as it's unflavored with no sugar added. I give my cats Kefir with no issues.
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My Ricky would absolutely love to have condensed milk as a treat but my vet said that milk naturally has a lot of sugar so he can't have it. Wouldn't that be the same for yogurt?
 
PamJV said:
No I haven't tried that, but I thought all milk products have lactose (milk sugar) ?
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when fermented homemade plain greek yogurts and most plain kefir are made it turns the lactose into something else (i forget what they called it) that diabetics can process without it raising their blood levels, as long as whole milk is used to make it i think i recall reasing. my homemade greek yogurt got fermented for 12-14hrs which according to what i recall cut the carbs/sugar to around 5% per cup so 1tbsp for a cat won't affect them at all.
 
Sylvie said:
when fermented homemade plain greek yogurts and most plain kefir are made it turns the lactose into something else (i forget what they called it) that diabetics can process without it raising their blood levels, as long as whole milk is used to make it i think i recall reasing. my homemade greek yogurt got fermented for 12-14hrs which according to what i recall cut the carbs/sugar to around 5% per cup so 1tbsp for a cat won't affect them at all.
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I will give it a try, but it's possible that Ricky loved that condensed milk because of the sugar content. It didn't have sugar added, but in it's natural state it had more sugar than protein.
 
PamJV said:
My Ricky would absolutely love to have condensed milk as a treat but my vet said that milk naturally has a lot of sugar so he can't have it. Wouldn't that be the same for yogurt?
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Condensed milk is super high in sugar since most of the liquid is burned off and all you have left is sugar. Yogurt or Kefir are the byproducts of fermentation so most of the sugar is eaten off by the "bugs".
 
thanks everybody for answering my question, very grateful to all. I don't particularly enjoy kefir myself but I could get it for her....Sometimes make my own yogurt or get greek non flavored and no-sugar so based on your cummulative experience we should be ok with either choice.
I can now enjoy my yogurt guilt free and without hiding! I think non-cat owners might find a grown woman hiding from her cat to eat yougurt more than a little wired.
thanks so much :cat:
 
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