When it comes to cats’ favorite food, most people may say fish or mice. But do you know why cats love to eat these two things?
Because cats are nocturnal animals, in order to see things clearly at night, they need a lot of taurine, and rats and fish contain taurine in their bodies. Therefore, cats not only like to eat fish and rats, but also eat them because of their own needs.
Cats have the instinct to actively eat meat, and their digestive systems are more suitable for meat. Cats are carnivores. But they can also be vegetarians, especially domestic cats that have been domesticated by humans.
Although our protagonist cat today also eats meat, in comparison, it prefers to eat Chinese cabbage. In order to eat Chinese cabbage, it even transformed into a "thief cat". Most of the Chinese cabbage in the warehouse has been "savaged."
Storing Chinese cabbage in winter is a habit of many northerners. Although transportation is becoming more and more convenient and people can eat vegetables of any season they want, the habit of storing Chinese cabbage still continues.
The cat "Tiantian" is a pastoral cat living in the countryside. It was raised by Xiaochen's grandma to catch mice and look after the home. It was a new member who came to grandma's house last year. This year, Xiaochen saw this cat again when she visited her grandma during the New Year.
Although Tiantian does not have cat food and canned fish like cats living in the city, she lives a free and carefree life, and can go wherever she wants. The whole village is like her paradise.
Tiantian, who was still a baby last year, has now become a mother. In order to supplement Tiantian’s nutrition, her grandma feeds it fish mixed with rice every day.
On this day, grandma asked Xiaochen to go to the warehouse to get some vegetables (some heat-resistant vegetables are stored in the warehouse in northern rural areas). When Xiaochen got the vegetables, she found that the cat "Tiantian" was actually there, and she also brought one of her kittens.
What he never expected was that Tiantian was stealing Chinese cabbage! I saw it skillfully picking up a few cabbage leaves and running under the table to share these leaves with the kitten.
But the baby cat obviously had no interest in these light vegetable leaves. He just smelled them a few times and had no intention of eating them, but Tiantian ate them with relish.
Xiaochen thought the big cat was hungry, so he went to the house to get some dried small fish. After the little cat saw the small dried fish, he immediately ate it with big mouthfuls. On the contrary, its mother cat was more interested in the cabbage gang than the small dried fish. After it finished eating the cabbage leaves, it ate the dried fish.
Xiaochen looked at the scattered cabbage leaves in the warehouse. It turned out that they were all "credited" by Tiantian, but why did it have such a special liking for Chinese cabbage? This was the first time he saw a cat that loved to eat cabbage. Could it be that he usually eats too much meat and has switched to a vegetarian diet?
In order to find out whether cats can eat vegetables, Xiaochen picked up her mobile phone and checked it.
As carnivores, cats do not need to eat vegetables and fruits to achieve balanced nutrition. Animal protein is the only protein that can meet the nutritional needs of cats. If your cat is overweight, you can lose weight and strengthen your immune system by eating vegetables.
As long as the cat usually eats enough meat and keeps up with its nutrition, it can eat vegetables or not. If it likes to eat, it can eat a little in moderation. But don’t eat too much. After all, the cat’s digestive system is not suitable for fiber or starch.
Xiaochen told her grandma about Tiantian eating Chinese cabbage, and asked grandma to control Tiantian’s vegetable intake and only give her one vegetable leaf every day.