I was talking to a friend today and she told me something interesting about cats needing sunshine for vitamin D like we do. I looked this up online and found out that it is false.
People make vitamin D from being in the sunshine but cats are one type of animals that does not. In fact, cats require very little vitamin D, unlike other animals.
In the wild, cats get vitamin D through eating their prey - felines normally hunt at night, then sleep during the day. Domestic cats get their vitamin D from cat food, which is why it's important to feed your cat high quality cat food. If cats were kept indoors with no sunlight at all and they would not be ill from being without it.
Cats love the sun and spend all their time soaking it up. If you have a white cat, be very careful because they can get skin cancer from too much sun exposure especially their ears and noses.
Cats always seem to want to sit in the window or lay out on the floor where the sunlight is coming in. So while cats don't need sunlight to be healthy, you should try to have a sunny window available for them to sit in.
Cats love the sun and spend all their time soaking it up. If you have a white cat, be very careful because they can get skin cancer from too much sun exposure especially their ears and noses.
Cats always seem to want to sit in the window or lay out on the floor where the sunlight is coming in. So while cats don't need sunlight to be healthy, you should try to have a sunny window available for them to sit in.
