To my knowledge, cats do best with bird & rodent meats. They don't need to be eating anything with hoves or fins... Though they will probably disagree about the fishies
this post was submitted on 11 Apr 2026
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They will disagree violently about the fishes! I had a cat that was absolutely crazy about salmon!
My cat doesn't care much for salmon. But he absolutely loves canned tuna
I saw a barn kitten try to take down a cow, it was hilarious!
He was sitting in a barn window, looking down at this cow beneath him, switching his tail, and I was like "Oh, no..."
Suddenly this little black and white kitten LEAPS down on the back of the cow, digging in with claws on all 4 paws, and going to town trying to bite as hard as he could!
ROWR-ROWR-ROWR-ROWR! ROWR!
The cow did not notice.
It was a soul of tiger in a body of a kitten.
A carnivore sees an herbivore, makes the logical conclusion, and enthusiastically implements a plan.
I want to not believe you, but my cat has tried to take me down (we wrassle)
I had a cat who would hide under the dining room table, wait for someone to walk by, then dart out and try to hamstring them... so... yeah... Bite size apex predators!
You fancy yourself a wrassler, huh?
I bet you couldn't even wrassle a whole cow
Cats stereotypically love tuna.
No cat in the history of cats has ever swam out to sea and caught their own tuna. No member of family felidae, extant or extinct, has ever achieved that.
Ummmmm, sea lion
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...Fearsome predator.
Outer sea yes, on shores, debatable. Some felines are known to go for a dip now and again. Are tuna known for coming close to land?
Tuna are giant fish that live far off shore. Cats are known to fish but they won't land a tuna any more than a dolphin.
Have you seen how big is a tuna? I think. A tuna has a better chan6ge of eating a cat if it gets too close
Tuna are deep sea creatures. There is, however, a good chance that at one point many washed ashore dead, allowing the cats to develop a taste for them.
Did you mean "open ocean creatures"? While tuna can dive 500-1000 meters, and while technically "deep sea" refers to >200 meters, I generally consider "deep sea creatures" to be those that live primarily/exclusively in environments with no light and high pressure, like on the sea floor (~3500m) or in trenches (down to ~11,000m).
But I could be wrong! Maybe a marine biologist or oceanographer can clarify? (Lemmy needs a Unidan, minus the ego and voting fraud.)
Either way, zero overlap with any feline habitats.
Pretty sure she's going to have that ego, regardless because she's a cat.
Her ancestors brought down bigger and she knows it.
I have heard that feral house cats will occasionally hunt and kill prey that is much larger than themselves. IIRC, I think they were giving deer as an example. At least it was an animal similar in size to a smaller deer.
I have 11 cats. Plus three more in my custody. If they worked together they could take down a cow. This is important because cows outnumber people on my block.
But I also want more cat friendly cat food because I too understand what cats want in cat food. I made this 10 years ago:
My brother in Christ, 11 cats is far too much of the right amount of cats to have.
Vole, rabbit, and shrew for my outdoor babies.
Vole, mole, mouse, cotton rat are the favorites here.
I did find a rabbit skeleton underneath my house. Is the only rabbit I've ever seen of my property. But I don't know if it was there before we moved in or not. And I don't know how my cats would have gotten underneath the house to put it there. So I can't confirm that as a confirmed kill.
Was the skeleton disarticulated? If not then the rabbit most likely wasn't killed by predetors or scavenged. If it was hunted you'd see bones scattered and quite a few missing. We have foxes, hawks, and coyotes in our area and every now and then we find bits and pieces of their leftovers in the yard and on the porch but never the whole thing.
It was intact. Maybe it somehow found its way under but couldn't get out. Or it got dragged in by a cat, partially munched and then forgotten about.
You may want to look up Mouser brand cat food. If I remember correctly, it was created by someone who had the same thoughts. I don't know how healthy it is or anything, but I think it's a neat idea...even though I feel bad for the poor little critters put into it.
I've always enjoyed the thought of a couple cats cooperating to take on a cow lke the raptors in jurassic park, only much closer to the actual size of raptors =^_^=
Also not vegan
Who got that T-Rex in gravy
we humans eat dinosaurs regularly. it's like the most common meat we eat,
like we eat Dino babies for breakfast
We even shape them back into dino shapes
My cat can have a hamburger sometimes, as a treat
I just help cats whenever
It probably doesn't even taste like beef. Try it yourself.
At no point could Jessie realistically take down a cow.
"You brought that dog, man?!"
" Yeah I...was afraid he'd kill my parents' cows..."
Cooky fake brooches , like,wtf
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