I don't think it's about choice of food so much as it is variety. They can catch mice, lizards, birds, even insects in the wild, and each meal tastes different than the last. In the house, it's often the same salty kibble all day every day. Or the same meat mush. I don't think any creature would want that for literally their whole lives. It's not even the same kind of bird or anything. Just a processed mass of homogenous food-flavored material.

[–] tdawg@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago

Yeah that's generally how I see it too. My cat gets dry from the automated machine, wet from me at night, and dried minnows as treats. She's always stoked for the wet food and the minnows