I want chicken, I want liver what kind of food should I have delivered?

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But there are disadvantages to catching your own food. Wild prey can carry diseases, and are often difficult to grab unless you have serious stalking time on your hands.

With so many great brands of prepared food on the market, there's no reason to waste time trying to be primal. Supermarkets and pet stores stock a wide variety of dry and canned cuisine to suit every appetite.

Science Diet, in my opinion, really leads the pack in dried food. Their Feline Maintenance line, a poultry- and vegetable-based food, is both delicious and healthy. Science Diet has the recommended daily allowances of several key nutrients. I like the dry food supplemented by any of several canned options. The seafood and chicken-and-liver options are highly recommended.

For pure taste though, nothing beats Meow Mix. While lacking some of the health focus that Science Diet offers, Meow Mix is much yummier. In fact, 3 out of 4 cats actually ask for it by name. Meow Mix is more of a mainstream food than the yuppie-cat Science Diet.

For genuine snob appeal, however, there's Fancy Feast in a can. This is the sort of food to be eaten in a crystal dish which someone else will wash. I've never had much respect for the can crowd, because canned food alone makes the statement that one is fully resigned to domesticity. Maybe politics should be left out of meal choice. Regardless, it's fun to crack a can of Fancy Feast and pretend you are Duchess from the Aristocats.

For a fabulous after-dinner treat, Trader Joe's offers Tuna for Cats, a sort of lower grade of fish than that sold on supermarket shelves. It's absolutely divine, but not to be overdone: it's best appreciated after a healthy bowl of dry chow.

- chlo‘ lung