I’ve written previously about feeding whole prey instead of commercial or even homemade pet food, and the many advantages I’ve seen both first hand, and ones that just intuitively make sense to me. Ground whole animal patties are a great alternative, but from a feline perspective, they just don’t sell patties of whole ground mice, or whole ground birds or chicks.
I do feed periodic pieces or patties of larger animals, cows, bison, sheep, elk, et al, but I prefer to try to have diet staples be more species appropriate. In addition to that amazing taurine stat of mice for cats, there’s the fact that when small animals in the wild eat smaller ones, it’s whole prey per meal or per day, it just makes sense. That’s what they’d catch and eat if they were doing the hunting and gathering.
I must interrupt my vegetarian self to say I do realize how some of these phrases may be rather graphic, but I don’t know what other terms to use. Life sure does have its brutal cycle of life moments.
Though I eat no meat myself, the wildness and naturalness of seeing a cat or dog get to eat whole prey is a powerful experience I feel privileged to witness. A little glimpse into the wild instincts passed on through countless generations over the millennia. That’s one of the reasons why seeing another kind of whole prey, like frozen chicks added to our options, is so huge.
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Another is the advantage of all the little micro nutrients and body parts that surely all add their own unique nutritional benefit. Kind of like using only select, separately identified components from a plant, or replicating them in a lab, rather than eating the whole plant. Who knows what may be lost with no synergy from the whole? What component may work best with another that we just have yet to identify?
For over five years, Bailey’s principal diet has consisted of whole frozen mice. A bonus is it’s so beautifully easy to do. I just take out the next day’s ration from the freezer the night before, and put them in a jar overnight in the fridge. All ready to go by morning. A mouse or two per meal, set out on a towel, and breakfast is served. Dinner is the same. For fun and variety, there are always little treats and snacks, as well as those other meat sources at times, but predominantly, it’s mice. Up until now.
After trying different avenues for years, I have finally been able to find a good source for additional types of whole prey in Canada. The first day-old chicks (again, the brutality of life, even if CO2’d) arrived yesterday. Intrigued he was from the first sniff of the box. Purring by the time the bags came out. Waiting patiently while his first ever chick thawed. Big time purring when it was finally time. Time to eat; time to be wild.
