Why is there not any mouse flavored cat food?

Answer 1

Because meat isn't really "flavorful". When early man started eating meat he ate it raw and the food was his life as it is naturally for the cat. Cats don't say "gee, antelope is better tasting than that buffalo I had yesterday".

So whatever mouse tastes like (and Farley Moffat once wrote about his artic experience when he had nothing but mice to eat) it is not the taste the cat is going for.

We have more sugar receptors on our tongues than cats do so man learned that cooking meat (that carmelizes it) tasted better than raw meat. Man also learned that adding salt and spices to food improved its flavor and was also useful in preserving meat for longer periods of time. The leopard will take his kill up into a tree and snack on it for several days in the intense African heat. We would gag if faced with such food and it doesn't phase the leopard at all.

Answer 2

I don't think cats LOVE the taste of mouse. I mean they only catch them 'cause they're fun. And they eat them anyway. I guess cat food makers can't make a cat like mouse flavored food so they don't make it at all.

Answer 3

I think if there were a manufacturer willing to taste test various mice, and be willing to taste test the recipes, there would be. It couldn't be any stinkier than fish flavored cat food.

Answer 4

Because hopefully no one knows what mouse tastes like.

Answer 5

Pet food is made mainly to please the human nose. If we don't think it smells good we aren't going to feed it to our pets. Also, I don't think I would want mouse smell in my house waiting for the cat to eat the food.

Answer 6

And "mouse" tastes how exactly? I'm not sure if I want to know if you know that.

Answer 7

lol. good question!