As I am eating my dinner, I wonder… If a cat’s natural food source is mice and other small rodents, why can’t I buy cat food made of rats and mice in the way I can buy cat food made of chicken and fish?
Because we humans are not comfortable buying anything made of small rodents?
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nickie
January 26th, 2009 (permalink)
I have often thought about this, infact by typing this question into my search engiine is how I stumbled accross this. I have mentioned this to my other cat loving friends and they have all looked at me as if I had 2 heads.
vili
January 26th, 2009 (permalink)
I guess it’s just cheaper to raise chickens and such, which we are already doing for human consumption. And maybe the meat used in cat food products is primarily stuff that was left over or rejected by factories that produce food for humans?
I really don’t know. But somehow the whole pet food industry seems like a one big question mark to me.
ploob
March 18th, 2009 (permalink)
I have wondered about this frequently also. But the explanation I thought of was that people would be totally grossed out to be feeding their animals something like a mouse or a rat. We never eat those animals…except maybe we have, without knowing about it.
I wonder how it would market in the focus groups?