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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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.
Catfood actually comes in three flavours: Gills and Fins, Beaks and Feet, Lips and arseholes.
Edited for autocorrect
“Oops! all cloaca”
There was! There was a brand of mouse-based cat food.
“Fresh Sparrow Flavour” on the bag: cat gives it five stars, owner returns it on the spot
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.
Because I would buy them from an Asian supermarket in a frozen 12 pack. I would also buy mature chickens for $3 a bird and cut them in quarters and hand feed those to my dog. It was very good for teaching him to not bite me when crushing the bones right next to my hand.
Here’s the thing though, tuna is, for completely random reasons, absurdly tasty to cats, because it has both of their favorite flavor chemicals, that otherwise are always in different foods, in one.
So yeah, you know what? I would never want to deny my little asshole the opportunity to taste something unnaturally delicious.
“Here little girl, let your mind be blown in a way you could never experience in the wild. Now please stop eating plastic.”
My cat is allergic to seafood or something. She vomits every time she eats tuna cat food, multiple different brands. Land meat is never an issue though.
My idiot is going to need a “dust bunny with small stones” flavor.
Lots of good arguments in here for duck and tuna, but what the hell is Friskers thinking with Turkey and Cheese?
It mimics their natural diet in the wild of hunting roaming wheels of parmesan and violent flightless birds 10 times their size.
“Maybe them cats wanna turkey and cheese sammich!”
“OK, grandpa, let’s get you to bed…”
"Tarnations, boy! Im tellin’ ya they want a dat gummed sammich! Turkey and cheddar! Hold the bread! "
before doing this, they should focus on making appealing (to cats) prescription food because it’s stressful enough when you have to put your cat on a special diet, without them having super limited options.
My cat is allergic to chicken… chicken… its in every cat food, even most the fish flavors.
There are chicken free (wet) cat foods out there. He doesnt eat any of them except one. My bear be eating the same shit everyday, happily, I guess. But he do stalk the toaster oven for tendies… you gotta watch him
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.
I like the image of a house cat taking down a full tuna now that it’s got the taste. Just don’t give it the taste for human
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.
cat food is marketed to people and not to cats. cats are broke
also, where tf do you get farmed songbirds
I assume they were not farmed.
that just makes it even less available
Ye. Ngl, I had only half understood your “farmed songbirds” sentence when I first wrote that, so my comment didn’t actually make a lot of sense, sorry.
Yeah. You’re probably not getting farmed songbirds, without people flipping out. I assume it’s not hard to farm them, just horrible PR, because people aren’t as conditioned to ignore their suffering.
Cats can and will eat tuna and duck in the wild. They’d eat deer, too, if they could take one down.
Tuna are saltwater fish. In what environment can cats hunt saltwater fish? I don’t think they could ever realistically interact.
Cats that live near ocean shallows. Egyptian Maus are known to catch them.
Don’t tuna weight over 400lbs? I’d love to see a housecat bring one of those in my front door. Maybe leave the head on the doorstep.
They don’t always weigh that much and they start off fairly small.
So… like by that logic, should dog food come in crap flavor?
Now with added barf!
Cat crap. Other dog crap. My crap. Chicken crap.
vibe
Ah yes, the sophistication of Cat Fudge.
