I thought this diet was attempting to reverse engineer a cats natural prey. There are no Vitamin E or salmon oil capsules in a mouse, so whats the deal?
Darn it, you got me! Seriously, you’re correct that this diet is an attempt to create a mouse. But because there are usually limits to what we have to work with to accomplish that, we have to find ingredients and supplements to make up for nutrients that are lost by virtue of the fact that we’re not serving fresh, whole prey and are instead buying meat, processing it (i.e., cutting it up, exposing a good deal of its surface area to air), and–for the sake of convenience and sanity–storing it. And in storing or freezing anything, you’re going to lose some nutrients. Remember too that even if you’re buying a whole chicken carcass, you’re still not serving a truly WHOLE carcass. The brains and eyes of a cat’s prey, for example, supply a perfectly balanced ratio of Essential Fatty Acids. Because most people aren’t going be serving brains and eyes (unless you’ve stumbled onto an awfully resourceful and accommodating butcher), we need to do the best we can to make up for it and, hence, the
