2007-03-06 10:51:42 · 13 answers · asked by Anonymous in Pets ➔ Cats
I've thought about this question a lot myself, and came up with the two most likely reasons:
1.) Many people would think it's gross, and not buy it. since they have to sell the food to the people, not the cats, they want it to sound tasty to humans - why else would there by cat foods with name's like "Granma' Pot Pie"?
2.) By law, animals have to be slaughtered humanely. Mice are, obviously, very small. I figure it would be very labor and cost intensive to slaughter enough mice humanely to get an amount of cat food worth selling.
That said, they do sell "feeder mice", both alive and frozen, for snakes. One could buy some for one's cats... (I've never tied this since my cat is very picky and doesn't like raw food, but it could work, depending on the cat. Would probably be messy, though.)
2007-03-06 11:03:04 · answer #1 · answered by Ms. S 5 · 2⤊ 1⤋
have you ever eaten a mouse?? how would a human know how to flavor a mouse-flavored cat food. if you notice cat and dog food is flavored after things that we eat.
2007-03-06 13:47:20 · answer #2 · answered by Kelly M 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You can actually buy frozen raw mice specifically meant for pet cats. If you do a search on raw diets you will see mice as one of the things listed.
2007-03-06 11:26:23 · answer #3 · answered by kana121569 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
There is. Dead mice can be purchased in many pet stores, and so long as you're sure that the source is reliable, it's a perfectly good diet for your cat.
2007-03-07 01:13:43 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
same reason that there isnt cat flavored dog food!!!
2007-03-06 10:55:16 · answer #5 · answered by boostd92awd 1 · 3⤊ 0⤋
huh? ive never thout of that.you shoud make that.you would get rich off of it.try it maybe you will be a cat food preduser wher you grow up.
2007-03-06 11:18:56 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Who would determine that it does in fact taste like mouse? Lol. Now that would be a crappy job.
2007-03-06 10:59:41 · answer #7 · answered by Miss La La 3 · 1⤊ 1⤋
I think the one marked "Tuna and whitefish" actually tastes like
delicious mouse insides and buttock bite. Try any?
2007-03-06 11:00:00 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
Because no one has thought about it... and if they have they didn't do it because they thought it was to gross... just think of ALL the flavors for dogs... old shoe... toilet water... smelly sweat sock... mailman... ect... ect... ect...
2007-03-06 11:03:24 · answer #9 · answered by girl_of_your_dreams_1331 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
maybe it is a hard flavor to make.
2007-03-06 13:07:31 · answer #10 · answered by bluecow 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋