Cat food should be made with meat that cats naturally hunt, like mice and songbirds, instead of things like tuna, deer, and duck. Somehow I don’t think that would go over well with cat owners though.
Edit: weird typo
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My idiot is going to need a “dust bunny with small stones” flavor.
My cats wouldn’t know what to do with a mouse if they had one. I had a cat (RIP Tasha) whose favorite thing was turkey. Every time I had some in the oven, she went apeshit.
These things are already being processed for human consumption, and they’re perfectly nutritious for cats.
Buy two pet rats and breed food forever
This is not allowed in many countries, like Germany for example.
Does it become legal if the rats are euthanised before feeding them to the cat?
I think that’s how it works in the UK
So… like by that logic, should dog food come in crap flavor?
vibe
Ah yes, the sophistication of Cat Fudge.
Now with added barf!
Cat crap. Other dog crap. My crap. Chicken crap.
The real reason is farming and phytosanitary needs. The animals used need to be cheap enough to make sense to feed a pet, and farmed in a way where you can be sure your product won’t give cats worms or other parasites. Cats also don’t really eat the hair and hide, or feathers, of animals, so you ultimately have mammal, birds, and fish as categories. We already farm mammals, birds, and fish for humans, so the systems are already there.
That being said, I used to feed my little house panther raw food, which was a little frozen gore nugget of rabbit or chicken or duck. She loved them. Loved, loved, loved them. She’s caught pigeons and rats before, so it’s really not that far off. It’s not like either would present vastly different nutrition as compared to a mouse or a rat or song bird anyway.
gecko
“Fresh Sparrow Flavour” on the bag: cat gives it five stars, owner returns it on the spot
I assume the issue here is how much bone and fur/feathers you want in your cat food. Butchering mice like cattle would be very labor-intensive, but I’m not sure whether that’s actually an issue considering that cats already eat mice. Mouse bone and fur probably isn’t very nutritious for cats though, so that would inflate the weight of cat food.
I think you’d just pour a bucket of them into an industrial blender along with some catnip and wait til it’s paste …
My cat can have deer flavored cat food the second he can manage to take down a deer.
i go to WF store , and the meat department said, some of the customer buys the bougie things like the unprocessed frozen venison, buffalo, liver(that is also for human consumption) or other parts for thier Pets some really are into this trend.
Sometimes I’d go by the meat department or to a butcher and ask them if that they had any of the trim or little side cut up bits left over that was suitable for my cat. Cats love that shit. and the butcher would just throw that shit away anyway.
Cats don’t buy the food.
Mine do! I told them I was such of their freeloading and got them their own fridge. They even pay rent too!
There was! There was a brand of mouse-based cat food.
Catfood actually comes in three flavours: Gills and Fins, Beaks and Feet, Lips and arseholes.
Edited for autocorrect
“Oops! all cloaca”
I wouldn’t mind the mice but songbirds? Too artistic to be sacrificed for my fat cat’s potential enjoyment, sorry. 🤷♂️
artistic
Have you actually read their lyrics?
Yeah it’s all porn, kinda lame really, but hey sex sells so no wonder they’ve built an industry around it.
The birds are doing 2 Live Crew covers!
I used to feed my cat raw quails. Obviously they were feather free and I would tear them apart just so there wasn’t a mess on the floor but the cat very much enjoyed his meals.
Why feather free? I think it’s also good for the digestive system.
