Posted by IsoM on January 21, 2003, at 18:41:33
In reply to Re: What goes in pet food and animal feed, posted by coral on January 21, 2003, at 18:01:56
If you read cat food ingredients on packages, you'll always see taurine added to cat food. It's an essential amino acids that cats can't make, like humans can. Pet food manufacturers had to add it to the ingredients when cats started dying off from cardiac problems & many lost their sight from its lack.
Which made me wonder - why does it have to be added? How did cats get enough before? The answer happens to be from eating one of their natural foods - mice & other rodents. Mice are one of the richest sources of taurine there is.
My long time joke about developing a cat food that "cats would kill for" (literally) maybe should be realised. I figured to come up with Rodent Ragoût, Mouse Moussaka, Squirrel Swirl, Grasshopper Goulash, & such. Now I'm wondering if there may be a market for it. But I don't think I'd be willing to chop up the little critters even if my cats loved it. And the smell of the mix cooking in my kitchen! Good way to swear off food forever.
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