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 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.
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 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.
These things are already being processed for human consumption, and they’re perfectly nutritious for cats.
My idiot is going to need a “dust bunny with small stones” flavor.
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
I am in no place or have the qualification to give a legal answer, so this is just as far as I know from talking with people who own reptiles which are fed mice.
It is not allowed to use living animals as food, and the animals have to be put down in a humane and painless/stressless matter.
So it sounds a lot like in the Uk, yes
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.
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.
instead of things like tuna, deer, and duck
Tuna and deer, ok; but are you sure cats are incapable of hunting ducks?
Chickens and rabbits are also small enough that some cats might hunt them (at least when they aren’t fully grown yet), and I’m pretty sure cat food with their meats does exist.
I was actually thinking of turkey, but wrote duck instead. I laughed out loud at the thought of my cat trying to take down a wild turkey.
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”
The cats here have had more than enough songbird flavored food. There are no more songbirds here.
gecko
Lots of good arguments in here for duck and tuna, but what the hell is Friskers thinking with Turkey and Cheese?
“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! "
It mimics their natural diet in the wild of hunting roaming wheels of parmesan and violent flightless birds 10 times their size.
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!
