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 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 idiot is going to need a “dust bunny with small stones” flavor.
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.
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
Catfood actually comes in three flavours: Gills and Fins, Beaks and Feet, Lips and arseholes.
Edited for autocorrect
“Oops! all cloaca”
