I feed the cats a whole prey model raw diet, which means I try to provide a balanced diet of meats, bones, and organs in as whole a form as possible (i.e. whole chicken). But whole chicken isn’t really whole chicken, it’s been plucked and devoid of, among other things, it’s head and feet.

So I took the next logical step and ordered really-truly-authentic whole prey: mice.

No, not live mice, that’d be cruel (have you ever seen how cats treat their prey?). Rather, these are humanely euthanized mice from a company that mainly supplies snake and lizard owners.

Cats eat mice, of course, I know this. But carving up a not-so-whole chicken is a lot easier than thawing out a little mouse. Why? I know the mouse was treated a lot better than the chicken ever was. It met a much kinder end.