TWIL: Cats Need Mouse Bones

Gary came in all excited. “CATS NEED PROTEIN AND THEY RECOMMEND YOU FEED THEM GROUND-UP MOUSE BONES.”

I wasn't sure who “they” were in this sentence. EXPERTS, he said.

“Why wouldn't we just feed him mice,” I asked. “Get a mouse from PetSmart, like the ones they feed to snakes, then put it in the bathroom with Goldie. He would love that.”

“NO THAT IS DISGUSTING.’”

“Two animals enter the bathroom: only one returns.”

“THEY ALSO SELL CANS OF FOOD WITH THE MOUSE BONES ALREADY GROUND UP.”

This explains why I saw three flavors of this in the Amazon cart yesterday: lamb, venison, and mackerel.

The venison one at least does contain bone.

“No gums,” the can says. 

I assume there’s no mouse flavor because opening a can and seeing a preserved mouse would be  off-putting. 

Comments

[KC]

It sounds like "they" are doing a lot of heavy lifting...

(ground-up mouse bones probably do not contain the *most* protein anyway)

I agree with both of you: Goldie would have fun, and that bathroom would not be fun to clean up afterwards. (also the odds of the mouse managing to find some weird little crevice to escape into - possibly into the walls - are high; and if you used the bathtub as an Arena, I would not trust a cat to keep the conflict within those bounds at all. Also it would be really mean to the mouse; I do not feel that way about house mice, but buying a mouse *so that* a cat can terrify and torture it.... eh no.)

[theQueen]

KC - I wonder if Goldie would lap up the blood. it might be really easy to clean.