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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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
Buy two pet rats and breed food forever
This is not allowed in many countries, like Germany for example.
Mice can be farmed so it’s viable, songbird though i’m not too sure so it would be a bit hard.
Maybe they should also have something like cricket or grasshopper. Or maybe cockroach flavour 💀
Ha, I forgot about insects! We also need to add spider and house centipede to the lineup.
You can get cat food with crickets as the protein.
Cat food flavor “Oops, all centipedes!”
Open the can and all the centipedes scatter.
Oh, so interactive food! The cat gets to hunt them on their own. Like reptiles do when live fed, which is one of the reasons humans farm mice (aside from laboratory experiments)
Song bird farming would be illegal in the US
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.
There was! There was a brand of mouse-based cat food.
These things are already being processed for human consumption, and they’re perfectly nutritious for cats.
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 …
So… like by that logic, should dog food come in crap flavor?
Ah yes, the sophistication of Cat Fudge.
Now with added barf!
vibe
Cat crap. Other dog crap. My crap. Chicken crap.
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.
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!
My idiot is going to need a “dust bunny with small stones” flavor.
Why would cat owners take issue with it? I’d gladly feed her that if it was available and it’s what she liked.
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
gecko
“Fresh Sparrow Flavour” on the bag: cat gives it five stars, owner returns it on the spot
