Did they have dedicated cat food before WWII? until recently I was convinced people were just giving their dogs and cats their scraps. With cats possibly not even giving them the scraps and just letting them go hunt.
Kibble was ‘invented’ during ww2 as a way to get around shortages on metal for canning. But it’s essentially pemmican with below human grade standards. Works fine for dogs, manages to work well enough for cats to survive, so an industry was born even when the material shortages ended.
Wasn’t it during WW2 that they needed the beef to go to troops overseas, so they substituted beef for fish in cat foods?
I tried to look it up to verify, but search engines are shit and I’m not getting anything close to my keywords.
Did they have dedicated cat food before WWII? until recently I was convinced people were just giving their dogs and cats their scraps. With cats possibly not even giving them the scraps and just letting them go hunt.
Kibble was ‘invented’ during ww2 as a way to get around shortages on metal for canning. But it’s essentially pemmican with below human grade standards. Works fine for dogs, manages to work well enough for cats to survive, so an industry was born even when the material shortages ended.