Since I’ve begun to transition my cat to a raw food diet, I’ve been doing a lot of scheming and research on how I can go about this in the best way possible. One of my search queries, prompted by the success I had with thawed (and, uh, the first time- cut) baby feeder mice, was “cat live diet”. One hit caught my eye: “Evolution Diet.” I poked around curiously for a while before reaching the unsettling realization that they were selling vegan cat food and advocating a vegan cat diet.
Two things left me confused and indignant. One was the idea that someone would suggest a diet of autotrophs for a mammal who has evolved as an obligate secondary consumer. The other thing was that someone would suggest a diet of autotrophs for a mammal who has evolved as an obligate secondary consumer, and call it an “Evolution Diet”.
I had to document my utter bewilderment. I think I’ll file the first offense under “Animal Cruelty” and the second under “Crimes Against Science”.
With that out of the way, this former-vegan is free to go find some more evolutionarily-appropriate food for kitty. Hare Today, Gone Tomorrow sells frozen chicks, baby rabbits, mice… and even a ground meat/bone/organ sampler pack– it’d be nice to avoid taking scissors to a carcass again in my efforts to teach my cat that animals are food and grains are not.
For now I’ll order the two dozen mice, and continue to supplement with a dry food I feel is much more entitled to reference evolution its name (plug): grain-free Innova EVO, weighing in at 50% protein. It’s turned my cat from scrawny and sickly to sleek and muscular– can’t wait to see what an even better diet will do.