Why do cats get heart murmurs & heart failure?

Why do cats get heart murmurs? Can a good diet help prevent the progression of congestive heart failure? What role does diet play in increasing the lifespan of a cat with a heart murmur or one with heart disease?

Any animal with a heart can get murmurs and failures.

Untreated thyroidism can cause severe heart problems in any animal, that’s only one of a couple of things that directly damage the heart.

A cat can have a murmur but not have it be a problem. There are 200 different types of murmurs for humans, some bad, some ‘ok’. It totally depends on what type the human or cat has.

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