• wolfrasin@lemmy.today
    4·
    8 hours ago

    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

    • RebekahWSD@lemmy.world
      2·
      5 hours ago

      They will disagree violently about the fishes! I had a cat that was absolutely crazy about salmon!

  • jordanlund@lemmy.world
    43·
    17 hours ago

    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.

    • Bazell@lemmy.zip
      20·
      16 hours ago

      It was a soul of tiger in a body of a kitten.

      • jordanlund@lemmy.world
        12·
        15 hours ago

        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!

  • BillyClark@piefed.socialEnglish
    40·
    19 hours ago

    Pretty sure she’s going to have that ego, regardless because she’s a cat.

      • BillyClark@piefed.socialEnglish
        5·
        15 hours ago

        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.

  • FauxPseudo @lemmy.world
    20·
    19 hours ago

    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:

      • FauxPseudo @lemmy.world
        7·
        17 hours ago

        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.

        • Yosmonkol@piefed.socialEnglish
          1·
          11 hours ago

          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.

          • FauxPseudo @lemmy.world
            1·
            9 hours ago

            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.

    • zip@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
      3·
      16 hours ago

      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.

    • HumanOnEarth@lemmy.ca
      61·
      18 hours ago

      At no point could Jessie realistically take down a cow.