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can I feed my cat pure mouse bodies from the pet store?

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can I feed my cat pure ground up mouse bodies from the pet store as a sole food source? (frozen to reduce parasites and then thawed to a nice temp of course) If not, what suppliments do I need, or must I do something different all together?

 

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August 1 2006 at 5:38 PM (6 minutes and 44 seconds later)
         
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If you want to use this as a food source then I would recommend that you mix in a vitamin supplement that has taurine in it. Although this can be a complete diet, if you don't know how the mice are fed and what they are fed before processing then it would be a good idea to supplement. May I ask why you want to try this diet?

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August 1 2006 at 5:52 PM (13 minutes and 22 seconds later)
         
Reply to Animal Eyes's Post: I like good, homegrown food versus prepackaged stuff, and if I can do the same for my new(first) kitty, then why not? Mice seem easier to throw together than the orecipes I've read,too. Buying hearts, bonemeal, organs, suppliments, and other stuff separately seems silly when the cats' natural prey- rodents, are a package deal. thats not weird is it?
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August 1 2006 at 5:57 PM (5 minutes and 17 seconds later)
         
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No I don't find it weird. This is what most barn cats eat and they do quite well. I would still get a good kitty vitamin to add to the diet, one that has plenty of taurine and calcium. Hope your kitty likes the food, just be prepared for some very smelly poo. When eating all meat diets like this they tend to have a little more odor in their stools.

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