Interestingly, cats lack the ability to synthesize ornithine which means they need to get arginine from their diet in order to complete their urea cycle and exc

Interestingly, cats lack the ability to synthesize ornithine which means they need to get arginine from their diet in order to complete their urea cycle and excrete ammonia. Their obligate carnivorous diet is distinct from a human deciding to do it for fun. https://academic.oup.com/jn/article-abstract/108/12/1944/4770338 https://academic.oup.com/jn/article-abstract/108/12/1944/477... https://bmcvetres.biomedcentral.com/track/pdf/10.1186/s12917-015-0594-3 https://bmcvetres.biomedcentral.com/track/pdf/10.1186/s12917...