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My cat only eats cooked chicken, refusing her cat food. Is it safe?

Updated On September 23rd, 2025

Pet's info: Cat | Ragdoll | Female | spayed | 6 months and 17 days old

Is it okay for my cat to eat home chicken? She likes it a lot and she now doesn't eat her own cat food that much. Is it normal? Any tip?

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Answered By Dr. Leigh, DVM

Veterinarian

Published on April 23rd, 2016

It would be ok to eat a small amount of chicken, as long as it is baked and not fried. She also needs to eat cat food because an all chicken diet is not a nutritional balanced diet for a cat. If she won't eat both and is only looking for chicken than you may need to feed only cat food so she will start eating it again. You could try different varieties and see which one she eats best.

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    Answered By David Elbeze, DVM, MRCVS

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    It's fine as long as you do not give her any cooked bones. the problem though is that if you start giving her chicken every day she will probably not eat her cat food because of that. i recommend giving chicken just as a treat not more than twice a week, the rest of the time keep her on cat food. if she doesn't like her food, try a different one until you find one that she likes.

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