Easter is a time to treat yourself and your nearest and dearest, so it's only right to spoil your feline family members, too. But, while we humans can subsist on chocolate eggs, hot cross buns, and roast dinners (for a few days, anyway), cats require a more specialist diet. As a result, many common easter treats and foods can make them ill.
A few chocolate buttons or a small chunk could kill a cat, vets at the nation's leading cat charity have warned in the run up to Easter.
Just two grams of chocolate could be toxic to our feline friends, Cats Protection's Central Veterinary Officer Sarah Elliott cautioned: "Eating even a small amount of chocolate could raise a cat's heart rate and increase loss of bodily fluids, both...
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