Giving Cats Brewers Yeast Pills / Can They Overdose?

mrobsessed

Hi All,

Cats seem to love brewers yeast tablets and will eagerly crunch them up or swallow them whole like its feline candy. It seems a bizarre thing for them to like - does anyone know why?

Regularly giving them to my cat seems to make her coat conspicuously glossier, but is it dangerous to give too much to a cat and what are the safe dosages?

I'd be grateful for any advice as this has baffled me for years!
Mr O

UKTigerlily

Wouldn't it be better to call the Vet to check? I believe it is added to good cat foods anyway so she shouldn't need more if on a good food.

BitterAndTwisted

Brewers yeast tablets contain vitamin B which is water-soluble, so the body cannot store it. There is no likelihood that the cats could suffer an overdose, and nor can we. One of my cats used to love them so I offered them as treats.

Dollardog

I don't know about it for cats but I remember years ago, we used to give our dog Vetzyme tablets (can you still get them?).
We had a big dog and it said something about having around 12 a day. The vet used to say that that amount was rubbish, where it wouldn't do the dog any harm, it wasn't necessary and a waste of money as the vitamin B could not be stored, as was said in the post above, so it just came out as waste and that 2 was plenty.