It’s no secret that pet cats kill many wildlife when allowed outdoors, including everything ranging from insects and mice to birds. Cat owners also realize that their pets tend to leave their murder than eat it, and there are good reasons for it: they get most of their food from humans and seems to prefer like that.
Most of the food and nutritional needs of cats are filled in homes where they enjoy Kibble or wet food, according to a new study from the University of Exeter. Scientists focus specifically on cat mustaches, gathering forensic evidence pointing to the extraordinary tendency to hunt for wildlife based on instincts, not hungry.
In particular, around 96 percent of the domestic cat diet consisted of food provided to them by the owner; Only about 3 or 4 percent of food comes from eating wildlife, such as insects or mice. That means the possibility is not hungry that encourages this hunting behavior, but a small fifth personal predator instinct.
This is good news for cat owners who might worry that limiting the ability of their cats to hunt for wildlife can hurt him from the perspective of nutrition – the cats, in fact, get the majority of their dietary needs are filled with kibble and wet food, not birds. and chipmunks. It is better news for the environment because cats destroy the Songbird population.
The researchers found that using the ‘Birdsbesafe’ collar in combination with daily playing time and feeding a high-quality meat-based cat diet reduced how many wildlife they killed. The same university has published a study of how playing and diet time can reduce cat hunting.