Post Your Pets

Jesus christ, I didn't realise that cat diet was so complex. I just feed Bangers half nice wet food, half science plan. Seems to be OK- though my housemate (the owner - currently travelling) used to supplement his diet with plates of venison blood and bits of small fowl.

It's not complex - cats are obligate carnivores, and therefore should only eat fresh meat & some bones. Left to their own devices, they would eat small creatures (which some speculate is the reason that humanity domesticated them - to control rodents that preyed on the cereal stores that humanity created at the dawn of civilisation).

Since we have taken over the role of feeding them, the complications have come principally from the meat rendering industry,, who supply a lot of the meat that goes into pet food, and the pet food manufacturers, who introduced carb-rich cereals into cat food.

As I am sure you can imagine, a lot of the cheaper meat supplied by the renderers, apart from being cooked, which is undesirable, is of questionable nutritional value because it is often meat which is not fit for human consumption. I have read that some of this meat is supplied by vets themselves, ie come from dead pets or diseased livestock.

Carbohydrate rich food has NO place in a cat's diet - in the wild, the only time a cat is likely to ingest any kind of cereal is when they eat the stomach of prey, and the stomach contains a recent meal, and this would be in negligible quantities.

As other people have mentioned, cats will eat grass, but not in any significant quantities.