On Tue, 23 Sep 2003 16:46:35 GMT, "Mary" wrote:


"Alison Perera" wrote in message
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"Mary" wrote:

"Kitten M" wrote in message
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Please help my research for cat food. Before lots of people started
feeding their cat commercial cat food, (crunchy type or canned food)
what were they feeding their cat?
Is there such a thing like a traditional "home made" cat food?


Sure. It's called "table scraps." Dogs lived on it too, somehow.

I believe that for the most part, cats have historically been kept to do
a job: pest control. As a result they were generally expected to feed
themselves if they were successful at their job. Puss probably got the
occasional bowl of fresh warm milk by the hearth, and was quite loved,
but until our society had acquired a certain amount of luxury you
couldn't probably afford to have an animal that didn't pull its own
weight.

-Alison in OH

Good point. But you know there were some big-hearted cat lovers out there,
not to mention kids, who snuck the cats some goodies from the table every
now and then! The more things change the more they stay the same, right?
*S*

I suppose cats and dogs became domesticated when people threw them
scraps of food from their fire. I could see doing that with a wolf,
but with a big cat? I'm not so sure about that.