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Cat food safety
Can Cats Eat Plum Pits? No, Remove the Pit
No, remove the pit
No. Keep plum pits away from cats and call your veterinarian if one was swallowed or chewed.
Plum PitsAsk your vet
Call your veterinarian promptly if your cat swallowed or chewed a plum pit, or if choking, vomiting, pain, or appetite changes start.
Flesh and pit are different pages
A tiny plum flesh cube may be manageable; a hard pit is not a treat.
Do not make it a toy
Pits roll and smell like fruit, but they are the wrong object for a cat to bat around or chew.
How to handle it
- Throw away plum pits, stems, and leaves before offering any tiny fruit flesh.
- If a pit is missing, check whether it was swallowed whole, cracked, or chewed.
Avoid
- Whole plum pits, cracked pits, pit fragments, stems, leaves, trash fruit, compost fruit, and letting cats play with pits.
- Waiting if your cat is gagging, vomiting, drooling, painful, constipated, or refusing food after pit exposure.
Watch
- Choking, gagging, coughing, vomiting, drooling, belly pain, lethargy, constipation, refusing food, or repeated attempts to vomit.
Portion
No safe portion. If a pit was swallowed or chewed, note the size and call.
Helpful food-safety supplies
Optional tools for measuring, storing, serving, and cleaning up tiny portions safely.
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