What types of food would a cat get in the wild?

Cats are obligate carnivores, which means that they are strict meat eaters. Therefore they are hunters and their diet is fairly simple. Meat! Meat! Meat!

A small wild cats diet consist of mice, rats, rabbits and birds. Bugs are also on the menu and one of my cat favorites! Any animal they can catch and eat is on the menu.

Almost as important as what cats do eat is what they do NOT eat in the wild. They do not eat grains or fruits or vegetables as these food sources are not appropriate nutrition for an obligate carnivore.

As confirmed in “The Carnivore connection to nutrition in cats”, by Dr. Zoran, found at http://www.catinfo.org/zorans_article.pdf , cats can not derive the proper nutrition from plant matter, either grain or vegetable. Their bodies are created to absorb nutrients from meat, not rice and peas. Cats even lack the digestive enzyme to digest plant matter. I think that alone proves the importance of meat in your cat’s diet.

Furthermore, cats have absolutely no use for the carbohydrates that grains provide and they end up suffering from obesity, diabetes and other diseases because they can not utilize the sugars these foods load them down with.

While you sit here and absorb all this information please keep in mind that all dry foods are laden with excessive amounts of carbohydrates for a cat and inappropriate for a cat’s diet. Cats should always be fed a wet diet consisting of raw meat, bones and organs or a high quality canned.

You can further your search for the proper diet of your cat at http://www.catinfo.org or http://www.catnutrition.org.

Source Link: A list of good canned foods can be found here

In the wild, what they eat depends on where they live. But here are some small animals that they often prey on.
Mice
voles
squirrels
rabbits
magpies
thrushes
shrews
fish
frogs
lizards
snakes
rats
robins
juncoes
wood peckers
starlings
pigoens
Sometimes they will also scavange threw garbage cans, but that doesn’t really count as the wild.