why don't they make mouse flavoured cat food?

Answer 1

i have a cat and had a mouse in my house, my cat totally ignored it and i had to catch it myself what a let down.

Answer 2

I also think it's the hunt, and necessity, not the taste, that makes rodents the natural diet for domestic cats. And NO, cats do NOT torment mice. Actually, a cat's kill of mice is very quick, unless it's a mother cat who wants to teach her kittens the trick of hunting (I've seen that), in which case yes, the thing is prolonged and probably not fun for the mouse, but if we decide we don't want any cruelty within the animal world, we have to get rid of all predators, and that shouldn't happen.

Anyway, I guess the reason why there is no mouse-flavoured cat food is because cat food is prepared of human-food-processing wastes, and human food does not include processing mice. About artificial taste / smell... I think the person who wrote that they wouldn't want to get the job of finding out the taste has a point.

Anyway, I prefer feeding my cat not something-flavoured food, but food made of that something (a difference there is!), and I don't care to make food out of mice. Chicken and rabbit work well enough.

Answer 3

Well I read on a website the following:

Pet food manufacturers do make "bird-flavoured" cat food - chicken and turkey. However, they don't make mouse-flavoured cat food because they think the moggie can catch its own, whereas tackling a cow, a salmon or a lamb would present a bit of a problem.

Strange.... ha ha

Answer 4

I don't know -maybe cos mice taste a lot like chicken, so there's no need to produce two flavours? And while we're at it, what about cat flavoured dog food?

Answer 5

I heard Jo Whiley on Radio 1 ask this last week and I thought at the time what a neat idea.
The cat wouldn't really know the difference between mouse and chicken (doesn't everything taste like chicken?) but the consumer would go for it as its our pre-conceived idea that cats like mice!

Answer 6

your question must be based on the theory that cats like the taste of mice. Cats just tend to torment mice mainly because it's just a little thing running around that the cat is trying to play with. often cats catch mice to bring as presents to their owners or other cats. not because mice meat is delicous. it's like asking why they don't make cat flavoured dog food.

Answer 7

For the same reason that they don't make cat flavoured dog food.

Answer 8

I feed my cats a raw meat diet. It is not strongly flavored, having just the right amount of all the nutrients a cat needs.

The food manufacturers spray their kibble with all kinds of flavor enhancers, including used restaurant grease, to entice cats to seem to want their particular food over another. Mouse isn't that odiferous or flavorful so they won't bother with that. Just what will get you to buy their food.

Answer 9

Do manufacturer sell cat food to cats or to their owners? How many people fancy the thought of delicately roasted mouse on their plate?
Which makes most pet foods popular is they sound like something their owners would like to eat.
Perhaps mouse would be an improvement on meat and vegetable derivatives which seem to form the bulk of most cat food. I always imagine this to be bone scrapings and potato peelings as I really would not like to imagine what parts of animals they really put in the tins and pouches we lovingly feed our pampered pets.
Contents of Whiskas Senior pouches from whiskas web site:
Meat and animal derivatives (min 4% rabbit), (fish varieties: fish and fish derivatives inc. min 4% Whitefish), Cereals, Minerals. Contains EEC permitted colourants.

As well as aiding her digestive system, Whiskas® Senior has additional benefits for the older cat:
# Contains sunflower oil for healthy skin & coat
# Provides energy and vitality with Vitamin B
# Aids natural resilience with Vitamins A & E
# Calorie concentrated with added calcium

Answer 10

Who will kill the mice they don't care to kill fish or cows but tell them to kill a mouse nope.anyway won't cat's stop hunting mice if they have mouse flavored food.They don't go around chasing cow's?

Answer 11

my cats just play with the mice, kill them. They don't eat it as their distraction is dead. One of my cats eat moths though. Well at first he used to put his paw on it, but it's a lot better to find dead moths all over the house then dead mice that the cat dragged in.