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

  • Mycatiskai@lemmy.ca
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    4 hours ago

    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.

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    12 hours ago

    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.”

  • katy ✨@piefed.blahaj.zone
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    14 hours ago

    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.

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      11 hours ago

      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

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    12 hours ago

    Lots of good arguments in here for duck and tuna, but what the hell is Friskers thinking with Turkey and Cheese?

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    16 hours ago

    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.

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    19 hours ago

    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

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      1 day ago

      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.

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        1 day ago

        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.

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    23 hours ago

    The cats here have had more than enough songbird flavored food. There are no more songbirds here.

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    20 hours ago

    Why would cat owners take issue with it? I’d gladly feed her that if it was available and it’s what she liked.

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    1 day ago

    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.

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      11 hours ago

      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.