# Why is there no mouse flavored cat food? **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [July 3, 2006, 2:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-is-there-no-mouse-flavored-cat-food/363038 "2006-07-03T14:14:59Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![knavette57](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/knavette57/32/3871_2.png) [@knavette57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knavette57)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2023, 4:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-is-there-no-mouse-flavored-cat-food/363038/61 "2023-03-18T16:33:44Z")
Probably if they had to, if they were starving, they would eat cats. I love dogs and cats, but I am ever aware that they are only a few meals away from returning to their red tooth and claw days. Heavily domesticated animals certainly would not eat each other, but in certain circumstances they might be forced to…yulk. Well, not yulk, just survival. ---
**Author:** ![nearwildheaven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/90db22/32.png) [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2023, 7:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-is-there-no-mouse-flavored-cat-food/363038/62 "2023-03-18T19:53:17Z")
$5 “human tuna” is a canned steak or filet. The cheapo tuna looks more like cat food. ---
**Author:** ![dtilque](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/d6d6ee/32.png) [@dtilque](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dtilque)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2023, 8:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-is-there-no-mouse-flavored-cat-food/363038/63 "2023-03-18T20:05:25Z")
> [@knavette57](#): > > Probably if they had to, if they were starving, they would eat cats. You might note that I wrote “normally”. A starvation situation is not a normal one. As far as pork-flavored cat food, it doesn’t surprise me that someone somewhere has some on the market. But most brands do not seem to have any. I checked all the different brands at my supermarket and none had any. ---
**Author:** ![LurkMeister](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/3da27b/32.png) [@LurkMeister](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LurkMeister)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2023, 9:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-is-there-no-mouse-flavored-cat-food/363038/64 "2023-03-18T21:32:50Z")
I had a friend who refused to feed her cats beef-flavored food because it couldn’t be part of a cat’s “natural diet”. I don’t remember her opinion of tuna-flavored cat food. Or whether she considered salmon a possible part of a cat’s “natural diet”. ---
**Author:** ![mordecaiB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mordecaib/32/7725_2.png) [@mordecaiB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mordecaiB)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2023, 7:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-is-there-no-mouse-flavored-cat-food/363038/65 "2023-03-20T19:50:20Z")
> [@DPRK](#): > > just an update > > [Muridae Pet - Mouser Pet Food](https://www.muridaepet.com/mouser-pet-food) I have to ask. Was this bumped by a spammer, did you search for it, or did you start a new thread but Discourse showed this one in it’s “similar threads” history? ---
**Author:** ![DPRK](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/4491bb/32.png) [@DPRK](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DPRK)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2023, 8:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-is-there-no-mouse-flavored-cat-food/363038/66 "2023-03-20T20:36:57Z")
Was cross-linked from “cat treats” thread, since it is proper (mouse-containing) cat food and not a treat, and therefore belongs in this thread. ---
**Author:** ![alphaboi867](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alphaboi867/32/3898_2.png) [@alphaboi867](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/alphaboi867)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2023, 6:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-is-there-no-mouse-flavored-cat-food/363038/67 "2023-03-22T06:30:27Z")
I can imagine circumstances where wild cats would have the opportunity to eat wild salmon, but these seem unlikely to occur often. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-is-there-no-mouse-flavored-cat-food/363038.md?page=3)