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Processed "pet foods" are a modern novelty. For centuries, people just fed their dogs table scraps and let them rummage around outdoors. For cats, they don't have much trouble getting all the mice and birds they can eat. My cat even eats spider webs so evidently they have nutritional value too.

Thanks for all the advice on feeding. I just returned from town grocery shopping for my two dogs and one cat. Getting ready to cook up a big batch of chicken and rice, mixed veggies, and corn oil for the dogs, and will freeze individual feedings. The cat has some tuna coming for dinner.

These dogs are going to think it's their birthday party or something. Until now I have fed them expensive commercially produced food, with scraps from time to time. They love people food, and that's what they'll be eating from now on.

All these suggestions and links are bookmarked. Ping all your cat freeper friends because there have been a few on here wanting more info on homemade catfood. My cat likes Tuna on occassion, so I guess I'll feed him chicken and what the dogs eat in addition to tuna. He is the picky one in the bunch. However, he'll either eat what I make him or he'll have to go and catch a mouse.

BTW, for you cat lovers, here's a funny story. I have a herd of deer come into my yard every afternoon, and I feed them shelled corn.

Once, I looked out my window and my cat was hunkered down beside where the deer were feeding, and crawling low toward them. He was actually trying to hunt a deer. When he got pretty close one of the deer stomped his hoof on the ground and the cat decided he'd pushed it as far as he was going, and took off running away.