Have you ever realized that we feed out cats canned BEEF? Like a Cat in the wild is ever going to kill a Cow!
2006-12-20 08:02:10 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous in Pets ➔ Cats
Yes, but this is a domestic cat...
2006-12-20 08:06:04 · update #1
I eat beef, too, but I'm never going to run down and slay a cow. It's the vitamins that he gets from the food that is important. If you think about it, our cats wouldn't be catching tuna either, but they love it. I suppose you could always buy mice to feed him ;) or bugs, snakes, birds, squirrels, moles...lol. I don't think anyone would buy a food with those ingredients on the label.
2006-12-20 08:09:37 · answer #1 · answered by AK 3 · 2⤊ 1⤋
First of all you should NOT be feeding foods with Beef in them. Cats cannot digest beef very well. It is used primarily in pet foods because there are so many by-products leftover when the cows are processed for humans its extremely cheap...so it isn't even the meat that the cat is eating.
Pet foods should contain poultry of a specific origin as the first ingredients as it is almost 100% digestible. You will not find high quality pet foods with Beef in them. That's why when they had the 'mad cow' incident a couple years back, all the low grade foods like Iams, Science Diet, Whiskas, Purina, etc had to pull their products off the shelves...they contained beef by-products.
If people really care about their pets, they really should do a bit more research before just feeding any old food because the company has made a fancy commercial.
2006-12-21 03:51:44 · answer #2 · answered by PAWS 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I don't because I read something that suggested beef - and fish even more so - are not great choices for cats.
So my girls get venison. Mainly because it's the only thing Poppy will eat, and Sophie likes it too. If I try giving her other food, she'll eat it but she tries to steal from Poppy's bowl.
But I guess they're just as likely to bring down a deer as a cow, huh?
I've sometimes wondered why, if mice are the nutritional optimum for cats, why they don't grind them up and sell them as canned food? Oh well!
2006-12-21 01:18:39 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I do a raw meat diet for my cats and use chicken and turkey. When I made up a batch with beef the only cat who ate it threw up five minutes later.
I don't think there is anything inherently bad about beef - as long as it's not by-product meat which is bad from any source. I know that raw feeders in Australia use kangaroo meat successfully with cats and that wouldn't be a very likely source of prey either for a small cat.
2006-12-20 08:22:57 · answer #4 · answered by old cat lady 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Taste of the wild and it is rated 4 stars. Both of my kittens and my adult do great on it. I would love to raw feed both my dogs and my cats but I am just not able at this time but later in the future I am def planning on it. They will get water added in to make it wet or they will get Blue Buffalo wet food either or.
2016-03-13 08:58:46 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yeah, how come they don't make cat food out of mice?
2006-12-20 08:16:14 · answer #6 · answered by Lorenzo Steed 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Well...
Some farmers say they saw a hungry lion come into there pasture and kill, and eat, a hole cow in 30 min.
Poor cow......
I think....
Is that normal?
2006-12-20 08:08:14 · answer #7 · answered by Happy Days 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
a lion could kill a wildabeest sorta deal.
2006-12-20 08:04:30 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋