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Seafood!!! (mander.xyz)
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[–] 24 points 4 months ago (11 children)

I've never understood why cats like tuna. Like how is a cat supposed to catch THIS?!

this is how big she is btw

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  • [–] 12 points 4 months ago (5 children)

    They don't particularly like fish nor do they digest it well.

    It is however extremely stinky and is typically the meatiest, fleshiest material they eat when they otherwisr have a life of kibble or canned foods. And for that reason they tend to ravenously enjoy tunafish.

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  • [–] 2 points 4 months ago (4 children)

    Wait what? I thought cats eating fish were universal no matter if it's a pet eating canned foods or not

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  • [–] 2 points 4 months ago (3 children)

    I can't speak for all cats, as in felines, but domesticated house cats that humans keep as pets are derived from a desert cat originally. Not many desert fish for their digestive systems to have adapted to.

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  • [–] 2 points 4 months ago (2 children)

    Okaay so the cats beside my house who just come to eat fish are fine then

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  • [–] 7 points 4 months ago* (2 children)

    Wasn't it during WW2 that they needed the beef to go to troops overseas, so they substituted beef for fish in cat foods?

    I tried to look it up to verify, but search engines are shit and I'm not getting anything close to my keywords.

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  • [–] 7 points 4 months ago (1 child)

    Did they have dedicated cat food before WWII? until recently I was convinced people were just giving their dogs and cats their scraps. With cats possibly not even giving them the scraps and just letting them go hunt.

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  • [–] 3 points 4 months ago

    Kibble was 'invented' during ww2 as a way to get around shortages on metal for canning. But it's essentially pemmican with below human grade standards. Works fine for dogs, manages to work well enough for cats to survive, so an industry was born even when the material shortages ended.

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