Is it OK for a cat to eat bluebottles?

[Ponders]

There was one in the room driving me nuts - I couldn't get it with a magazine. Hunter-fetcher cat came in & within seconds had knocked it down, trapped it with a paw & scoffed it. Ewww.

(Footballer cat, who is a bit dim, just lay there & ignored it)

Anyway I wondered about germs & eggs & stuff...

Don't see why not. There may be the odd rare disease that one is carrying I suppose but mine always have and have never been ill from it. They'd eat them in the wild after all.

And just try and stop them.

My cats always ate them. Maybe an issue if you never worm your cats.

I've never had a cat get I'll from eating bugs. I seem onevomit but that was from sheer numbers of bugs. (a kitten faced with a cicada plague)

they were wormed this week - next dose due in November - so I don't need to worry?

Thanks, guys

My cats eat bugs all the time, that's why I have them

And if you think Ewww for a bluebottle, just wait until one of them goes after a Daddy Long Legs and comes back - successful but not noticing that he's still got some legs dangling from the side of his mouth!

We don't get many spiders anymore, I came home one day to find a little pile of legs on the top step of the stairs though.

We had one the size of a hamster running around the bedroom once, I wouldn't let him have it though, for his own safety.

Probably a good source of protein? !