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

I wouldn't mind the mice but songbirds? Too artistic to be sacrificed for my fat cat's potential enjoyment, sorry. 🤷‍♂️

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.

Buy two pet rats and breed food forever

gecko

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.

So… like by that logic, should dog food come in crap flavor?

Cat crap.
Other dog crap.
My crap.
Chicken crap.

My cat can have deer flavored cat food the second he can manage to take down a deer.

vibe

artistic

Have you actually read their lyrics?

Food food should come with non-marginal nutrient value.

I can’t be the only one who has thoughts like OP‘s without taking a shower.

Is this ADHD associated?

Song bird farming would be illegal in the US

I think you'd just pour a bucket of them into an industrial blender along with some catnip and wait til it's paste ..

Yeah it's all porn, kinda lame really, but hey sex sells so no wonder they've built an industry around it.

I saw some cat food at a specialty store that claimed it was made of 100% rabbit.

Chicken: cat could theoretically take down a small one

Fish: some cats catch fish

Those are the best options imho

The birds are doing 2 Live Crew covers!

Cat food flavor "Oops, all centipedes!"

Open the can and all the centipedes scatter.

This is not allowed in many countries, like Germany for example.

cat food is marketed to people and not to cats. cats are broke

also, where tf do you get farmed songbirds

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.

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.

Ah yes, the sophistication of Cat Fudge.

ngl I wish keeping your cats indoors was the law. too many assholes let their furry murder machines roam and get splatted by cars and spread disease.

my cat lives indoors and is fine.

Haha the assholes have come out to downvote someone who doesn't want their shitty animals eating the birds.

fuck all y'all

Farming song birds for cat food sounds expensive.

It's going to cost at least 10x what you'd pay for chicken.
I don't think there is enough demand for it

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

Some big cats catch deer too.

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

Cats can and will eat tuna and duck in the wild. They'd eat deer, too, if they could take one down.

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 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.

My idiot is going to need a "dust bunny with small stones" flavor.

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.

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)

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.

I assume they were not farmed.

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."

You can get cat food with crickets as the protein.

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

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

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.

They don't always weigh that much and they start off fairly small.

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.

that just makes it even less available

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

"Fresh Sparrow Flavour" on the bag: cat gives it five stars, owner returns it on the spot

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.