Can cats not eat pork?

Ajanta wrote:
Observer same@ wrote:

: Cats can eat pork...

I still don't understand why it is so rare in commercial cans, but as
Mishi's post show it has been spotted!

It's present as "meat by-products". It's just too valuable in the
secondary market (hot dogs, etc.) to be sent to the animal food market.

-L.

You know we need our pickled pigs feet
I think I am going to be sick

No More Retail wrote:
You know we need our pickled pigs feet
I think I am going to be sick

LOL...I have never understood some tastes.

-L.

I did some research in Veterinary Journals and Vin.com (a Vet & Vet Tech
website) and here's what I found out.
On the Iams food labels it lists "animal fat" which a pig fat represents a
small amount. (Melody Foess Raasch, D.V.M., Technical Services Veterinarian,
Consumer Care, The Iams Company).
Purina has documentation on their website that
"While we do incorporate pork as an ingredient in some of our pet food
products, we do not manufacture any dog or cat food products with pork as
one of the primary ingredients. There is no reason from a nutrition
standpoint not to use pork for pet foods. However, market research studies
indicate that there isn't a lot of consumer demand for dog or cat food
products which contain pork as a primary ingredient. Should that perception
change, we would re-evaluate the use of pork as a primary ingredient in pet
food products."
Several vets have "alternate diets" and home-cooked diet recipes that have
cooked pork as a protein source.



Just thoughts. I have no specific facts
"Ajanta" wrote in message
...
Quite clearly, cat food seems to be derived not from what cats would
eat but from what humans eat: beef, chicken, turkey, tuna, etc.

However, I also notice a conspicuous absence of one very popular and
common human staple from cat foods: pork.

Why is that? Can cats not eat pork? Is it harmful to them?

I got something worse scrabble it is made of cow's various organs guess
which ones

"Dr.Carla,DVM" wrote in message
news:9v4%e.378065$_o.303589@attbi_s71...
I did some research in Veterinary Journals and Vin.com (a Vet & Vet Tech
website) and here's what I found out.
On the Iams food labels it lists "animal fat" which a pig fat represents a
small amount. (Melody Foess Raasch, D.V.M., Technical Services
Veterinarian,
Consumer Care, The Iams Company).
Purina has documentation on their website that
"While we do incorporate pork as an ingredient in some of our pet food
products, we do not manufacture any dog or cat food products with pork as
one of the primary ingredients. There is no reason from a nutrition
standpoint not to use pork for pet foods. However, market research studies
indicate that there isn't a lot of consumer demand for dog or cat food
products which contain pork as a primary ingredient. Should that
perception
change, we would re-evaluate the use of pork as a primary ingredient in
pet
food products."

Interesting. This certainly speaks to the role of consumer perception in pet
food
formulation. "Demand for dog or cat food products which contain pork as a
primary
ingredient.?" What would fuel that demand if not attractiveness of pork to
the people buying the cat food. Nothing in these comments addresses the
value or lack thereof of pork from a nutritional standpoint. The focus is on
a "public perception" standpoint.

"No More Retail" wrote in message
m...
I got something worse scrabble it is made of cow's various organs guess
which ones


It's "scrapple" and having eaten it once I don't want to know!

what a strange thing to say.

pigs roll in mud, not excrement. this is a behavioural routine to keep cool.

they don't choose to roll in their own excrement. on the contrary, they
are careful to relieve themselves away from their sleeping area.

most dogs like nothing better than a good roll in horse manure. does
that make them filthy animals as well?

all of which has no bearing on why the OP can't find pork in cats' food.


whitershadeofpale wrote:


A pig is a filthy animal

Sure bacon tastes good, and yeah
sewer rat might taste like pumpkin pie

but a SWINE is still a filthy animal

I mean, what other animal rolls in its own feces..

Just my thought on it

jils wrote:
what a strange thing to say.

pigs roll in mud, not excrement. this is a behavioural routine to keep cool.

they don't choose to roll in their own excrement. on the contrary, they
are careful to relieve themselves away from their sleeping area.

most dogs like nothing better than a good roll in horse manure. does
that make them filthy animals as well?


I wouldn't go so far as to call a
dog filthy, but they're definitely
dirty. But a dog's got
personality. And personality goes
a long way.

-L.
(My apologies to Quentin Tarantino)

"Ajanta" wrote in message
...
Quite clearly, cat food seems to be derived not from what cats would
eat but from what humans eat: beef, chicken, turkey, tuna, etc.

However, I also notice a conspicuous absence of one very popular and
common human staple from cat foods: pork.

Why is that?

Cost (expensive compared to most pet food protein sources) and probably
religious concerns (e.g., Judaism, Islam) and possibly exaggerated fear of
trichinosis (only if eaten raw or not cooked thoroughly).


Can cats not eat pork? Is it harmful to them?

Absolutely not. Pork is the primary ingredient in Hill's Prescription Diet
m/d for diabetes management and metabolic weight loss due to its high
protein (14g/100 kcal) and low carbohydrate (0) content. A high protein and
low carbohydrate diet is a *true* carnivorous diet- high protein and
low carbohydrates has been the cat's evolutionary diet for millennia.

Phil