Is it unethical for me to feed my cat live mice to toy with kill and eat?

[AnusNdaPainus]

Nope, it’s natural predator prey relationship

Yes, it’s animal cruelty

[Anonymous]

If your cat caught the mice by itself in the wild/outside then it’s fair game but if you purposefully fed a live mice to your cat then it’s animal cruelty. I have snakes but I don’t feed my snakes live prey bcs it’s more humane for the prey (who had 0 chance of survival being thrown directly into the snake’s enclosure) - if it were out in the wilderness, the prey item has a chance to fight back and potentially escape being eaten, fair game.

[AnusNdaPainus]

So does the mouse
If my cat doesn’t catch it then we will have mice in the house

[Opinion Owner]

That’s why you shouldn’t get a feeder live mice in the first place ;) unless we’re talking about a mice that happened to already be in your house and you let your cat loose to catch it (pest control) then sure

[AnusNdaPainus]

Well I gotta buy the mice so they are domesticated and less likely to carry parasites

[Opinion Owner]

Then that’s unnecessary, you’re opening your house to a potential rodent infestation

[Opinion Owner]

If you get off of feeding a live prey to your pet then just get a pet reptile tbh

[AnusNdaPainus]

She likes chasing them I don’t know what you know about cats but they are natural born hunters

[Opinion Owner]

I have 3 cats, several dogs and reptiles. All of these animals are natural born hunters but now they live in captivity with us. Just get her a toy to stimulate her hunting instinct or let her roam around your backyard to hunt. You don’t need to go out of your way to simulate a hunt buy getting her a live mice.

[AnusNdaPainus]

Then you know that cats are born feral and small rodents and bird are apart of their diet
This started because when I let her outside she kept bringing me dead moles which was fine but I noticed she was also eating some of them too and I didn’t want her eating those because I was poisoning them to get them to stop making holes in my yard so I keep her inside and give her mice now sometimes the mice gets away but she’ll catch them the next day sometimes she just plays with them until they die and gives it back to me

[Kori1236]

Yeah it’s wrong. Sure there’s the whole predator/prey dynamic but you’re putting a prey item in with a predator with zero chance of escape, it also opens your cat up to risk of injury and infection due to the mouse fighting for its life. Animals in the wild at least have the chance of escape from the predator.

[Massageman]

Free range capture? Natural, OK. "Fed" live mice? Even though I deplore mice and catch them before they cause harm in our household, not ok in this case.

[AnusNdaPainus]

It’s like feeding a gladiator to a lion

There is a chance they won’t die

[FunkyMonkee]

Bring the little furball over here! She can have all the mice she can catch!

[Anonymous]

Good way to make your cat very sick. You should be charged with animal cruelty.

[AnusNdaPainus]

That’s actually very rare seeing as how small rodents and birds are apart of a cats diet

[Anonymous]

No it's wrong. You are putting two animals to fight together.

[AnusNdaPainus]

No they want to fight
A gorilla can be around a gorilla and not fight it

[exitseven]

its the circle of life.

[jahaims]

Depends on why u r doing it

[AnusNdaPainus]

Toy and food
Two birds with one stone

[jahaims]

No... as in is it so your cat can love more natural or do you get off on shit dying

[AnusNdaPainus]

First off call it what it is : a vermin.
Second: yes I’m very pleased when my house is not riddled with mice like gosh damn Disney world

It’s so my cat can play with its food ( toy ) and eat it.

[Sparkie460]

That's gross and wrong

[AnusNdaPainus]

How so?

Cats like to hone their hunting abilities and if the mouse gets away he gets to eat my food

Fair deal

[Anonymous]

That's so awful.

[AnusNdaPainus]

But they eat them and play with them