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Cat food safety
Can Cats Eat Cherry Pits? No, Remove Them
Avoid
No. Cats should not eat cherry pits, stems, or leaves. Call your veterinarian if your cat swallowed one.
Cherry PitsCall if swallowed
Call your veterinarian if your cat swallowed a cherry pit, stem, or leaf, or has choking, vomiting, pain, or trouble passing stool.
Hard pieces create real risk
A cherry pit can be a choking or digestive concern even before considering plant chemistry.
Call instead of guessing
Your veterinarian can weigh the number of pits, your cat size, timing, and symptoms.
Remove every pit
- Do not offer cherry pits, stems, or leaves.
- If your cat swallowed one, note the time, number of pits, and whether any stems or leaves were eaten.
- Call your veterinarian for advice, especially for kittens, small cats, or symptoms.
Keep pits out of trash access
- Whole cherries, loose pits, stems, leaves, compost, fruit salad scraps, cherry desserts, and trash access.
- Waiting for symptoms after a swallowed pit if the number is unclear.
- Trying to induce vomiting unless a veterinarian tells you to.
Watch
- Vomiting, drooling, gagging, coughing, belly pain, low appetite, constipation, diarrhea, lethargy, or behavior that feels wrong.
Portion
No safe serving. Remove pits before fruit is anywhere near your cat.
Helpful food-safety supplies
Optional tools for measuring, storing, serving, and cleaning up tiny portions safely.
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