Editing Cat (section)

==Food==

Many house cats eat food which their owners give them. This food is [[manufacture]]d, and designed to contain the proper [[nutrient]]s for cats. There are many different types of cat food. These come in many different flavors and costs are often very small.

There is moist canned food and also dry cat food which comes in different sized cans or bags and formulas. There are all kinds of formulae. It seems obvious that the food should be mostly meat, as that is most of a cat's natural diet. But remember, when they catch [[mice]], they also eat the bones. So there is need for formulas to have more than just meat.

Cats should not be fed a daily diet of dog food. It could make the cat blind, as it has no [[taurine]], which is a nutrient for the eyes that cats cannot make for themselves.

Cats cannot taste sweet foods (with [[sugar]]) because of a [[mutation]] (change) in their ancestors which removed the ability to taste sweet things.