I know I know… “obligate carnivore”

  • Trainguyrom@reddthat.com
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    2 months ago

    I’ve seen this choice play out with my own cats. I live in a 120+ year old farm house, and both cats came from my in-laws farm and therefore are familiar with catching mice. Every fall at least one mouse makes its way into the house to try to escape the cold and meets its end with the cats. They ultimately choose to eat the cat food (I generally go for Purina because its available at multiple local stores and decent quality) and chase the mice to death, which we ultimately have to toss into the yard to dispose of since they choose not to eat the mice.

    • samus12345@lemmy.world
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      2 months ago

      So in their case the preference would be, “Let me hunt stuff for fun, but gimme the canned food so I don’t have to actually eat them.”

      • flerp@lemm.ee
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        2 months ago

        These mitts were made for murderin and that’s just what they’ll do

      • GiveMemes@jlai.lu
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        2 months ago

        Straight up. I had one that wouldn’t even kill stuff. He would literally just let chipmunks go in the house as his plaything. Fucking monsters, them kitties.