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Post by JohnY on Jun 8, 2023 20:16:20 GMT
I am not keen on artificial pills (but do take some that are prescribed to prevent my heart stopping and water works getting blocked). I get my taurine from red meat and and fish, and I have done so for many years without knowing it. By the way I think that the previous sentence illustrates an appropriate use of the 'Oxford Comma'.
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Post by Kath on Jun 8, 2023 21:11:46 GMT
I thought taurine was something cats needed...I seem to recall someone telling me that you should not just indulge your cat's love of fresh fish because it doesn't have enough Taurine. I also seem to remember being told that a mouse was a nutritionally perfect meal for a cat...which begs the question of why a mouse apparently has enough Taurine in it for a cat but is healthier if you give it more. Mmmm. Don't believe everything I read?
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Post by JohnY on Jun 8, 2023 21:14:36 GMT
I don't have mice and wouldn't eat them even if I had.
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Post by John Farrell on Jun 8, 2023 22:17:09 GMT
Taurine - something to do with bulls?
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Post by peterob on Jun 9, 2023 6:21:33 GMT
I don't have mice and wouldn't eat them even if I had. I'm now going to spend all day trying to remember the title of a book I read way more than 50 years ago about a [Canadian] zoologist who studied how wolves survived in the arctic tundra where there were no obvious significant prey animals. The answer was mice. The author was also forced to turn to a mouse diet (can't remember why, supplies not turning up perhaps) and found he had to eat all of the mouse to get the required nourishment. I think he made stew. As I write this the [name?] Farley Mowat comes to mind. I'll google it and see what I find. edit: gosh, and I have trouble remembering names, the book was "never cry wolf" published in 1963 although I must have read it later because I was only 8 in 1963 - |
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Post by gray1720 on Jun 9, 2023 11:32:35 GMT
I've always been amused by cat food flavours. How many house cats have ever caught a tuna, I wonder?
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Post by nickr on Jun 9, 2023 12:36:03 GMT
I've always been amused by cat food flavours. How many house cats have ever caught a tuna, I wonder? Possibly a piano tuna. |
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Post by spinno on Jun 9, 2023 14:15:47 GMT
I've always been amused by cat food flavours. How many house cats have ever caught a tuna, I wonder? Apart from a very big cat how many domestic cats have taken down a deer... |
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Post by peterba on Jun 9, 2023 14:45:12 GMT
Taurine - something to do with bulls
..... hit?
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Post by spinno on Jun 9, 2023 14:46:30 GMT
Taurine - something to do with bulls
..... hit?
Nail on head |
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Taurine
Jun 9, 2023 16:37:56 GMT
via mobile
Post by daves on Jun 9, 2023 16:37:56 GMT
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Post by daves on Jun 9, 2023 16:49:53 GMT
Apologies for lowering the tone by bringing actual science into the discussion.
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Post by willien on Jun 9, 2023 17:00:08 GMT
Apologies for lowering the tone by bringing actual science into the discussion.
A forum without Anoraks is just an on-line argument.  |
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Post by spinno on Jun 9, 2023 21:14:44 GMT
Apologies for lowering the tone by bringing actual science into the discussion.
A forum without Anoraks is just an on-line argument. A forum with anoraks is a conspiracy theory |
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Post by lesleysm2 on Jun 9, 2023 21:27:59 GMT
I thought taurine was something cats needed... Cats cannot synthesize taurine so need meat to provide it- they're what are called obligate carnivores i.e. they cannot survive on a veggie or vegan diet. They need taurine for their muscles including their heart muscles so a cat deprived of taurine will die of heart failure |
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