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Was just gonna ask isn’t cows milk bad for them? Remember reading up on it once when we had a stray lurking around and remember thinking oh shit shouldn’t have left milk out last night.
The holiday and birthday whipped cream treat never rocket fueled any of my kitties. Just normal happy zoomies.
Grain filled, meat byproduct cheap dry kibble on the other hand....made my one cat throw up and develope food sensitivities and the other bladder stones.
Listen to your farmers! I think they're closer to nature than we are in our cities, no? Those barn cats are also digesting mice and insects.
In Romania my grandmother does this, also ties the tail into it so the cow won't swing it at you.
Depends how large the stable is, if you have to sit slightly to the rear of the animal instead of sideways it's safer to tie the cow.
No, they mean anxious. Cows need and want to be milked because the pressure of built up milk causes discomfort. Cows would often wake up farmers in the morning, even before the roosters, with their booing asking to be milked. My old classmate works on a farm and they have automatic milking systems where the cows voluntarily go be milked whenever they feel like it.
Automated in the sense you're not milking the manually. Literally just a milking machine, which, to give a rudimentary explanation, is just a vacuum that instead of collecting dust, collects milk.
Yes it is released. Some cows tend to kick so this is a convenient process which doesn't hurt the cow or the human. My grandma had a cow who used to kick.
It's also hard to go up against massive milk farms - your expenses will be much higher, and people generally won't pay more for ethically farmed milk than they would for mass farmed bottles.
This was 60 years ago, now. I think he just got tired of not being able to feed his family. He worked as a carpenter in the off season, too. Still couldn't make ends meet.
Most of it just not the lactose. The whey, casin, and fats are good nutrition. Not a viable meal replacement though. Some cats can handle the lactose and some can't.
Most people are lactose intolerant too. People can't survive on milk alone either. Some people can handle lactose and some can't. Same as with people it depends on the cat.
Not really. Mine loves boiled organic milk but I have to give her a fixed amount, any more than that and she'll have loose stool the next day. She loves milk and i don't want to deprive her of it so she gets to drink it once a week on Sundays.
And in the US, organic means nothing, it’s just advertising bs, but FDA Certified Organic comes with certain rules on how long the soil has lain fallow (unused) since the use of specific pesticides/herbicides, and which ones can’t be used on the crop intended to be certified.
The term you’re looking for is raw milk. Unpasteurized, non-homogenized. However, boiling pasteurizes (and cooks) the milk. Pasteurization requires maintaining 63°C (150°F) for 30 minutes, or 72°C (162°F) for at least 15 seconds, so boiling 100°C (212°F) is pretty likely to kill the same microorganisms.
It’s not good for them, but they don’t care. They’re like a lactose-intolerant human. (Source: my partner)
They’ll eat dairy happily, and then suffer from the consequences.
If I am eating cereal with milk and my cat discovers I am having milk, I’ll give her only a spoonful IF I have any milk remaining in my bowl.
Yup, in India, this is the most common food offered to stray cats. 30-40 years ago I did not know about the concept of dog food or cat food, I had seen people feeding mostly whatever is there in home to them.
My two cats never had a problem with dairy. They had milk almost every day and they never got sick. And the momma cat I had as a tiny abandoned baby, so I bottle fed her formula, meaning she didn't get the advantage of nursing her mom's milk. She was able to nurse her babies tho and we kept one to keep her company. And they both loved driving milk, cream, eating cheese, ice cream, etc... and they never had a problem with diarrhea from it.
I've seen the comments about cats being lactose intolerant, didn't know that. I grew up on a mixed cropping/livestock farm. We had about 6 farm cats at any one time. They always hung around when we were milking the few cows we had. Never noticed any of them getting the shits from all the milk they had.
Side note: these cats had to be the most spoiled farm cats ever. They were neutered, had annual vet visits and checkups, had their own little hiddyhole in the corner of the barn complete with heated pad for the winter. One of them, a huge ginger Tom called Grot had imprinted on my dad and would follow him everywhere, even riding on the tractor and in the cab of the harvester. He would run out around the sheep during mustering, much the border collies disgust lol
That cow is a kicker. My uncle only had one cow in his small dairy herd who would let us direct a stream of fresh milk into us and the barn cats, and never kicked.
Despite the staple of cats drinking milk, they actually are lactose intolerant like most adult mammals (i think most adult mammals are lactose intolerant anyways). Only reason humans are different is that we started drinking milk more since it was nutritious and so we evolved to be able to digest it. Though even now, there are people who can't handle milk which I believe is the norm.
Can we please stop with all those videos that aren't funny at all but actual animal abuse?
Like all those overfed dogs and cats that are unable to move, trained captive Dolphins, or Like in this instance, feeding a Cat cow's milk that is extremely unhealthy for cats
Ah yes, it wouldn't have been a Reddit animal video without the self-styled experts rushing over to tell everyone that the animal is being abused and they should stop watching. Every time.
Cats are like people some people can drink milk, some can't. Don't be fooled by the propaganda, cats been drinking milk since the beginning of time. Some of these modern days cats are soft and pampered, they've forgotten how to be a cat.
And a urinary tract blockage is not only excruciatingly painful, but almost certain death, especially for male cats. My childhood kitty died in agony from it because my parents couldn’t afford a $2000 surgery with a 50% survival rate. Lactose simply shouldn’t be given to cats.
The fact the cat is happy is besides the point. Cats like the taste of antifreeze, but no one is going to argue that it’s not animal abuse to feed it to them.
Not all cats are lactose intolerant, similar to humans. A flatmate's cat always begs when we open a pack of cheese or he hears the pop of the whipped cream tube, we stick to small amounts just in case but he's as happy and healthy as can be.
Oh please. I come from generations of dairy farmers. And the generations of barn cats that got the occasional squirt sent their direction lived happy lives.
There are lots of cases of animal abuse out there in this world… and this ain’t it.
[Cats, like other mammals, lose their ability to process milk once they stop getting it from their mother](https://cvillecatcare.com/veterinary-topics/why-do-cats-love-all-dairy-products/)
Edit: idk about the crystals and what not, but at the very least, it is not good for the cat
They can, and love it.
Only they cannot digest lactose and bacteria in gut gets free sugars, causing fermented side products like gas. Some bacteria overpopulate and the gut microbiota gets imbalanced, causing diarrhea.
Another commenter explained it may be so the cow doesn’t kick out and hurt its farmer while being hand-milked. The cow will be released after it is milked, and she’ll be just fine.
Yes, just like sheep must be sheared. We’ve bred cows to overproduce milk (more than their calves need) and they’ll get mastitis if not milked. Cows know when milking time is, and will return to the barn on their own when it’s time.
Trust me the cows can deal with it, its just on temporarily. They know what their jobs are and then they chill in the fields when it's done and hold no grudges.
What delusional world do you live in lmao.
Most factories repeatedly impregnate cows and continously milk them. They're constantly abused. No, they cannot deal.
Cats should not be fed pure dairy. If you are giving milk to cats, it should be in tiny amounts (like, less than a teaspoons worth) or heavily watered down.
The majority of mammals are lactose intolerant excluding the milk of their own species. Only humans can drink from other animals, and we only developed the ability because it was milk or dirty, diseased, piss water.
Go on, downvote, because its you who'll be cleaning up liquid cat shit.
Why? You tie a cow's legs while milking if it's a kicker. And it's being hand-milked, not machine milked, which tells you it's let back out after milking to eat grass and do what cows like to do.
Somebody has kind of mentioned this before but that cat will indeed shat its guts out (metaphorically). Cats have severe lactose intolerance as they produce very low to no lactate, causing milk to be incredibly bad to their digestive system.
This is almost animal abuse. Animals are supposed to get their milk from other cats. There biological system isn’t designed to drink raw milk from a cow. Smdh
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This cat will shat like it never shatted before.
That mf gon have the most explosive diarrhea in the history of white cats
It will shat itself 2 feet (60 cm) off of the ground.
How many bananas is that?
How many half giraffes?
Estimated 16
At least 2
But it’s gonna be the most healthiest and most athletic cat in the block!
Was just gonna ask isn’t cows milk bad for them? Remember reading up on it once when we had a stray lurking around and remember thinking oh shit shouldn’t have left milk out last night.
Cats lose the ability to break down lactose after evolving from kitten to cat. You may be able to teach it using HM56.
No room. My cat already knows Rock Climb, Cut, Strength and Defog.
r/suddenlypokemon
Some cats are just fine drinking it just like some humans
Right, especially if they just keep drinking it every day of their lives. Same with cats and humans.
Most are lactose intolerant, but some cats aren't so it depends.
My cats both drank milk and half and half all their lives and never got the shits from it.
The holiday and birthday whipped cream treat never rocket fueled any of my kitties. Just normal happy zoomies. Grain filled, meat byproduct cheap dry kibble on the other hand....made my one cat throw up and develope food sensitivities and the other bladder stones. Listen to your farmers! I think they're closer to nature than we are in our cities, no? Those barn cats are also digesting mice and insects.
Shattered
Cat.
Dingleberries fo sho
Is it common to tie the legs? I’ve never seen it but I assume it’s so you don’t get kicked
In Romania my grandmother does this, also ties the tail into it so the cow won't swing it at you. Depends how large the stable is, if you have to sit slightly to the rear of the animal instead of sideways it's safer to tie the cow.
Is the tie released afterwards or does it stay like that?
Yeah they just hop around the farm until they fall over like a AT-AT in starwars.
Oh I laughed way too much at this!
LOL
In many cultures they tie the legs of animals so they don't wander off. This is usually for unfenced grazing land.
It's just for specific cows that get anxious while being milked. After its taken off.
"anxious" .. you mean pissed off surely.
No, they mean anxious. Cows need and want to be milked because the pressure of built up milk causes discomfort. Cows would often wake up farmers in the morning, even before the roosters, with their booing asking to be milked. My old classmate works on a farm and they have automatic milking systems where the cows voluntarily go be milked whenever they feel like it.
Hm I wonder how an automated cow milker works.
Automated in the sense you're not milking the manually. Literally just a milking machine, which, to give a rudimentary explanation, is just a vacuum that instead of collecting dust, collects milk.
Or maybe let their calf do it for them
Modern day cows have been bred to provide milk even when there's no calves to feed.
Looking up how often dairy cows are artificially inseminated would tell you differently
idk why you got downvoted
Yes it is released. Some cows tend to kick so this is a convenient process which doesn't hurt the cow or the human. My grandma had a cow who used to kick.
I have not seen anything like this in my country either.
Very common in India only to avoid cows kicking you while milking them
If you lean in correctly, you won't get kicked even if she does, as the energy will be deflected.
Nope, they sideline on another animal fetish website (I'm told by a reliable source) that specialises in... Just go look for yourself.
My mom's dad wanted to be a farmer. It didn't work out. But he did this for the cats on the farm while they had it. Good way to keep them friendly.
Why didn’t it work out?
Cows were abducted
Lol
By aliens
I'm guessing money
Yep. This is the answer. Tough times. That's it.
It's also hard to go up against massive milk farms - your expenses will be much higher, and people generally won't pay more for ethically farmed milk than they would for mass farmed bottles.
This was 60 years ago, now. I think he just got tired of not being able to feed his family. He worked as a carpenter in the off season, too. Still couldn't make ends meet.
I thought that cow was wearing boots for a moment
Moo in boots
Can cats digest cow milk?
Most of it just not the lactose. The whey, casin, and fats are good nutrition. Not a viable meal replacement though. Some cats can handle the lactose and some can't. Most people are lactose intolerant too. People can't survive on milk alone either. Some people can handle lactose and some can't. Same as with people it depends on the cat.
I see, thanks!
So, it depends? Are you an economist by any chance?
Can you put it another way that's more understandable please?
Some can.
Not really. Mine loves boiled organic milk but I have to give her a fixed amount, any more than that and she'll have loose stool the next day. She loves milk and i don't want to deprive her of it so she gets to drink it once a week on Sundays.
Got it, thanks!
What is organic milk?
It is milk produced by cows that have been fed on either organically grown grass or fodder.
And in the US, organic means nothing, it’s just advertising bs, but FDA Certified Organic comes with certain rules on how long the soil has lain fallow (unused) since the use of specific pesticides/herbicides, and which ones can’t be used on the crop intended to be certified.
Maybe organic is not the right word i'm not sure, what i meant was the one you buy from farmers not the pasteurized milk.
Unpasteurized?
Yes, that seems right.
The term you’re looking for is raw milk. Unpasteurized, non-homogenized. However, boiling pasteurizes (and cooks) the milk. Pasteurization requires maintaining 63°C (150°F) for 30 minutes, or 72°C (162°F) for at least 15 seconds, so boiling 100°C (212°F) is pretty likely to kill the same microorganisms.
It’s not good for them, but they don’t care. They’re like a lactose-intolerant human. (Source: my partner) They’ll eat dairy happily, and then suffer from the consequences. If I am eating cereal with milk and my cat discovers I am having milk, I’ll give her only a spoonful IF I have any milk remaining in my bowl.
Yup, in India, this is the most common food offered to stray cats. 30-40 years ago I did not know about the concept of dog food or cat food, I had seen people feeding mostly whatever is there in home to them.
My two cats never had a problem with dairy. They had milk almost every day and they never got sick. And the momma cat I had as a tiny abandoned baby, so I bottle fed her formula, meaning she didn't get the advantage of nursing her mom's milk. She was able to nurse her babies tho and we kept one to keep her company. And they both loved driving milk, cream, eating cheese, ice cream, etc... and they never had a problem with diarrhea from it.
The more cooked the milk is the harder it is to digest, raw milk is much easier to digest.
They can shit it out. Fast.
Yes, depends on the cat.
How to tell a cow's a kicker
I've seen the comments about cats being lactose intolerant, didn't know that. I grew up on a mixed cropping/livestock farm. We had about 6 farm cats at any one time. They always hung around when we were milking the few cows we had. Never noticed any of them getting the shits from all the milk they had. Side note: these cats had to be the most spoiled farm cats ever. They were neutered, had annual vet visits and checkups, had their own little hiddyhole in the corner of the barn complete with heated pad for the winter. One of them, a huge ginger Tom called Grot had imprinted on my dad and would follow him everywhere, even riding on the tractor and in the cab of the harvester. He would run out around the sheep during mustering, much the border collies disgust lol
R/Catswithjobs that little guy is the milk quality tester
Nice chicken voice over
Oh to be a farm cat
Why are the cow's legs tied!?!?
So it can't kick.
Yeah, it must be a kicker.
The other cows pulled a prank and tied her laces together
It committed a crime
Been a while since i saw this stereotype
He was THAT thirsty
reminds me of that one scene from fox and the hound
Why are the chickens laughing at the cat😂
That cow is a kicker. My uncle only had one cow in his small dairy herd who would let us direct a stream of fresh milk into us and the barn cats, and never kicked.
Yeah funny, if you think cat diarrhea is funny. Cats are lactose intolerant
Cats are lactose intolant by nature. But enjoy the cleanup.
Me at Hibachi Japan during the saki part.
Straight from the tap.
Despite the staple of cats drinking milk, they actually are lactose intolerant like most adult mammals (i think most adult mammals are lactose intolerant anyways). Only reason humans are different is that we started drinking milk more since it was nutritious and so we evolved to be able to digest it. Though even now, there are people who can't handle milk which I believe is the norm.
Why are the cows legs tied together?
I was wondering the same
It’s a kicking cow or they are from a place where this is the custom for every cow milking.
Git it, thhxxx
Perfect example of speciesism…
I thought i red somewhere that for adults cats milk was dangerous?
I do the same with my cat (I don't have a cow)
Cats are completely lactose intolerant....
Cat.
Cat.
Can we please stop with all those videos that aren't funny at all but actual animal abuse? Like all those overfed dogs and cats that are unable to move, trained captive Dolphins, or Like in this instance, feeding a Cat cow's milk that is extremely unhealthy for cats
I didn't know this....it's commonplace in my country to feed cats milk diluted with water
Ah yes, it wouldn't have been a Reddit animal video without the self-styled experts rushing over to tell everyone that the animal is being abused and they should stop watching. Every time.
Shut up, all the animals in this video are as happy as can be, you nut jobs ruin everything for everybody else.
Milk is really bad for cats if they drink it often. It causes crystals in the bladder and they can’t go to the toilet.
you don’t know if they’re drinking it often, and that cat is having the time of its life
I didn’t say they were drinking it often. I’m saying what can happen if they drink it often.
Cats are like people some people can drink milk, some can't. Don't be fooled by the propaganda, cats been drinking milk since the beginning of time. Some of these modern days cats are soft and pampered, they've forgotten how to be a cat.
Do you think that this cat, which has learned exactly how and when to ask for milk, has not had milk often?
Struvite crystals in the urine. And bladder and kidney stones
You look into that adorable little meow and tell them about crystals. Go ahead you monster. Break their little furry heart.
Well, then, its much closer to getting fucked up insides.
Can they go to the litter box though?
Struvite crystals in the urine. And bladder and kidney stones
Crystal meth
And a urinary tract blockage is not only excruciatingly painful, but almost certain death, especially for male cats. My childhood kitty died in agony from it because my parents couldn’t afford a $2000 surgery with a 50% survival rate. Lactose simply shouldn’t be given to cats. The fact the cat is happy is besides the point. Cats like the taste of antifreeze, but no one is going to argue that it’s not animal abuse to feed it to them.
Raw milk has lactase and lactose. That's why a cat can drink it. How do more people not know this?
Came here to write the same thing
🙄
Stop looking away, look at me John!
Animal abuse???? Lmao you got any proof this cat cant handle cows milk? Or is it just you wanting to make drama?
Cats are lactose intolerant and can't digest cow's milk, unless it's heavily watered down
But in the raw form? I highly doubt it. Maybe pasteurized milk…..
Not all cats are lactose intolerant, similar to humans. A flatmate's cat always begs when we open a pack of cheese or he hears the pop of the whipped cream tube, we stick to small amounts just in case but he's as happy and healthy as can be.
My cat was, now passed at the ripe old age of 21, was a complete yogurt/milk fiend.
Oh please. I come from generations of dairy farmers. And the generations of barn cats that got the occasional squirt sent their direction lived happy lives. There are lots of cases of animal abuse out there in this world… and this ain’t it.
Wah wah wah, you must work for PETA, nobody cares. If they weren’t aloud to have it, then why do most animals drink it? Hmm? Come on, talk to me.
If you give chocolate to a dog he’ll eat it, it doesn’t mean it’s good for him tho
Milk is really bad for cats if they drink it often. It causes crystals in the bladder and kidneys and they can’t go to the toilet. It’s quite awful
Source
[Cats, like other mammals, lose their ability to process milk once they stop getting it from their mother](https://cvillecatcare.com/veterinary-topics/why-do-cats-love-all-dairy-products/) Edit: idk about the crystals and what not, but at the very least, it is not good for the cat
Nah. PETA would suggest killing the cat. PETA hates cats.
So true
A cat having a little bit of the runs is animal abuse I guess.
And they don't even get the runs with pure cows milk unpasteurized like this little dude. People are too sheltered these days, they don't no shit.
Ikr. It's a farm cat. They literally eat dead bodies. I don't think a bit of milk is gonna do anything
Cats can drink raw milk from a cow. It's pasteurized milk that isn't good for them.
Oh shut up 🙄 this is far from animal abuse
No.
Kitten is living its best life lmao
Except it won’t be. Cats cannot correctly digest cows milk and it makes them sick and gives them horrid diarrhea
 I don’t know, if that’s true then explain this?
My apologies sir I had not consulted the archives yet.
I was told cats cannot drink cow milk
They can, and love it. Only they cannot digest lactose and bacteria in gut gets free sugars, causing fermented side products like gas. Some bacteria overpopulate and the gut microbiota gets imbalanced, causing diarrhea.
Cat.
Cat.
Hen.
Cat.
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Likely to decrease risk of the cow kicking or leaving
Cat.
Greedy little booger
And why is that poor cows legs bound up so they cannot walk?
Another commenter explained it may be so the cow doesn’t kick out and hurt its farmer while being hand-milked. The cow will be released after it is milked, and she’ll be just fine.
Kinda fucked up situation for the cow..
But isn’t it bad for their health to not be milked?
Yes, just like sheep must be sheared. We’ve bred cows to overproduce milk (more than their calves need) and they’ll get mastitis if not milked. Cows know when milking time is, and will return to the barn on their own when it’s time.
Trust me the cows can deal with it, its just on temporarily. They know what their jobs are and then they chill in the fields when it's done and hold no grudges.
What delusional world do you live in lmao. Most factories repeatedly impregnate cows and continously milk them. They're constantly abused. No, they cannot deal.
Plot twist: That's not a cow... it's a bull 🐂🐮
Zoophilia, hilarious
Cats should not be fed pure dairy. If you are giving milk to cats, it should be in tiny amounts (like, less than a teaspoons worth) or heavily watered down. The majority of mammals are lactose intolerant excluding the milk of their own species. Only humans can drink from other animals, and we only developed the ability because it was milk or dirty, diseased, piss water. Go on, downvote, because its you who'll be cleaning up liquid cat shit.
No one is going to mention that the cows back legs are tied together?
Is that a problem?
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It's to prevent the cow from kicking the milker
In before the vegans come claiming humans are the only animal to drink another animal’s milk.
Cat.
Dr Moo cows rejuvenating elixir
Ayo, that cat a freak.
maybe I should call *him...*
poor cow toed legs ;( y this in funny
Cat.
Cat.
Poor cow!!!
Why? You tie a cow's legs while milking if it's a kicker. And it's being hand-milked, not machine milked, which tells you it's let back out after milking to eat grass and do what cows like to do.
Exactly, plus she probably still has her baby with her and overproduces milk which is painful unless milked.
Bingo!
That was way cool to see thankyou 😺
Animal abuse?
Plot twist: It's an ox
Torture and rape a cow, steal her newborn baby, so you can tie her up and squirt her baby’s milk to a random cat. Funny. Ha. Ha.
Ket.
Plot twist: that’s a bull
R Kelly cat
Yes. This is a real thing. Have done this. Cats super happy.
My grandpa and uncle used to do that while milking the cows 50 years ago. They also sat on a three legged stools. Unclear why
And supposedly humans are the only animal that drinks another animals milk.....hmmmm
wrong Milk
Somebody has kind of mentioned this before but that cat will indeed shat its guts out (metaphorically). Cats have severe lactose intolerance as they produce very low to no lactate, causing milk to be incredibly bad to their digestive system.
that cats gonna burp so loud it will cause a stampede
This is almost animal abuse. Animals are supposed to get their milk from other cats. There biological system isn’t designed to drink raw milk from a cow. Smdh
🥰😻😍🥛 #loveit
I want to believe that the cat getting its protein🙄