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But just raw muscle isn't necessarily great -- I think there are lots of nutrients they would get from specific organs in the wild. One vet's recommendation was
by improbable22 7y ago
But just raw muscle isn't necessarily great -- I think there are lots of nutrients they would get from specific organs in the wild. One vet's recommendation was to alternate with high-tech dry food, which is likely to have these things. And some vegetables.
- Merrill 7y agoWhen we fed a rabbit or squirrel to the farm cats, they always ate the guts first. That's where the vital nutrients are.
- alacombe 7y agoThis is the case of many predators in the wild: eat the guts/organs first (often with the prey still alive).
- improbable22 7y agoRight. Although IIRC there is also a danger of them over-dosing on some of this, if given a whole meal of liver or something. They're wired to like it, but nature didn't bother with a mechanism to know when to stop.
- alacombe 7y agoAbsolutely true, they need organ meat too, which I was classifying as "meat". Though, point taken, unless you slaughter livestock by yourself (which we do), it's pretty much impossible to find. Even our chicken ABSOLUTELY LOVE meat and other random carcass scrap.