Have you ever realized

Amos

Have you ever realized that we feed out cats canned BEEF? Like a Cat in the wild is ever going to kill a Cow!



Meaghan

I eat beef, too, but Im never going to run down and slay a cow. Its the vitamins that he gets from the food that is important. If you think about it, our cats wouldnt 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 dont think anyone would buy a food with those ingredients on the label.



Margorie

A lion could kill a wildabeest sorta deal.



Gabriella

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?



Krishna

Yeah, how come they dont make cat food out of mice?



Harold

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 dont think there is anything inherently bad about beef - as long as its 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 wouldnt be a very likely source of prey either for a small cat.



Ethelene

I dont 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 its the only thing Poppy will eat, and Sophie likes it too. If I try giving her other food, shell eat it but she tries to steal from Poppys bowl. But I guess theyre just as likely to bring down a deer as a cow, huh? Ive sometimes wondered why, if mice are the nutritional optimum for cats, why they dont grind them up and sell them as canned food? Oh well!



Delinda

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 isnt 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. Thats 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.