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Because cats don't actually eat mice. They just kill them because of the great Cat/Mouse war that started centuries ago. The cats were willing to keep an uneasy peace and did so for decades, but eventually the birds allied with the mice and the war raged, more ferociously than ever.
At least I think that's why I find dead, uneaten rodents on my doorstep from my cat.
At least I think that's why I find dead, uneaten rodents on my doorstep from my cat.
You're mistaken, that's a gesture of how much he loves you. It's like flowers from the opposite gender. This tradition started with the signing of Cat-Human alliance in ancient Egypt.
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They're a pain in the dick to raise commercially, and very inefficient cost-per-pound-of-food wise. Besides, most of the major cat food companies just use a nice corn base now, ignoring the fact that cats are obligate carnivores.
Edit>Also, can you imagine how much trouble it'd be to skin hundreds of thousands of mice for food production?
You wouldn't skin them, you would just grind them whole into a paste to be molded into the specific shape/consistancey for your brand.
As others have mentioned, pet food is made from the waste by-products of processed food for humans that would otherwise been thrown away (keep in mind this is the stuff they can't legally put in hot dogs, spam, vienna sausages) so it is relatively inexpensive.
Also a distrubing percentage of canned animal food is consumed by humans. I am currently at work at a company with an overactive internet filter so I can't research specifics but I can give some anecdotes. I worked at a grocery warehouse that supplied a lot of convience stores, we pulled cases and cases of canned dog food, but rarely did we pull any dry dog food.
Thing is, all the stuff they grind up for other meat products isn't covered in fur. You can grind up a whole pig, skin and all, but I don't think they could get away with leaving the fur on mice if they wanted to process them into food.
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[–] xyzzy 0 points 21 points 21 points (+21|-0) ago
Because using the waste of meat production is cheaper than herding mice.
[–] middle_path 0 points 3 points 3 points (+3|-0) ago
and corn! Don't forget corn.
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[–] farts_n_darts 0 points 16 points 16 points (+16|-0) ago
Because cats don't actually eat mice. They just kill them because of the great Cat/Mouse war that started centuries ago. The cats were willing to keep an uneasy peace and did so for decades, but eventually the birds allied with the mice and the war raged, more ferociously than ever.
At least I think that's why I find dead, uneaten rodents on my doorstep from my cat.
[–] Snuff_Dogg 0 points 9 points 9 points (+9|-0) ago
You're mistaken, that's a gesture of how much he loves you. It's like flowers from the opposite gender. This tradition started with the signing of Cat-Human alliance in ancient Egypt.
[–] Astromachine 0 points 2 points 2 points (+2|-0) ago
I always thought it was because they think you're dumb and in capable of hunting for yourself.
[–] TSMBjergsenEgo 0 points 6 points 6 points (+6|-0) ago (edited ago)
They're a pain in the dick to raise commercially, and very inefficient cost-per-pound-of-food wise. Besides, most of the major cat food companies just use a nice corn base now, ignoring the fact that cats are obligate carnivores. Edit>Also, can you imagine how much trouble it'd be to skin hundreds of thousands of mice for food production?
[–] Fenrirwulf 0 points 1 point 1 point (+1|-0) ago
You wouldn't skin them, you would just grind them whole into a paste to be molded into the specific shape/consistancey for your brand.
As others have mentioned, pet food is made from the waste by-products of processed food for humans that would otherwise been thrown away (keep in mind this is the stuff they can't legally put in hot dogs, spam, vienna sausages) so it is relatively inexpensive.
Also a distrubing percentage of canned animal food is consumed by humans. I am currently at work at a company with an overactive internet filter so I can't research specifics but I can give some anecdotes. I worked at a grocery warehouse that supplied a lot of convience stores, we pulled cases and cases of canned dog food, but rarely did we pull any dry dog food.
[–] TSMBjergsenEgo ago
Thing is, all the stuff they grind up for other meat products isn't covered in fur. You can grind up a whole pig, skin and all, but I don't think they could get away with leaving the fur on mice if they wanted to process them into food.
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[–] Dargok 0 points 1 point 1 point (+1|-0) ago
I'd like to believe this is how Tom & Jerry was created.
[–] Clevelandro 0 points 1 point 1 point (+1|-0) ago
I really like this question. Thanks.
[–] turd_miner91 ago (edited ago)
Because then it would be mice food. Duh.
[–] Cynical_Doggie ago
Why don't they make dogfood from cats?