Cats Large or small – They’re designed to eat to other animals. And they’re built to eat those animals raw. No, the cats living under our roof are hardly living in the wild, but biologically, they remain true carnivores. And their ideal diet would consist, for example, of freshly killed mice and small birds. Cats and their ancestors have been eating raw food for tens of millions of years. Cooking is the enemy of the nutrients and living enzymes that cats need to thrive
Cats, derive nutrition from eating other animals, and cannot biologically derive the same nutritional benefits from plant based sources as humans do. Blueberries, whole grains, flax seed, kale, dandelion root, and other plant ingredients are perfectly lovely for humans. But we’re not obligate carnivores. Our cats are. They may be ‘domesticated,’ they may sleep indoors on fleece beds, they may wear sparkly rhinestone collars — but none of that transforms them into having the enzymatic pathways they would need to derive nutritional benefits from plants. Cats are carnivores.
Source Cat Nutrition.org
