编辑“︁猫粮”︁（章节）

== 历史 ==
相比狗而言（参见[[狗干粮|狗饼干]]和[[狗粮]]），为猫准备专门食物的观点后来才出现。这很可能是出于猫能易于谋生的看法。1837年，一位法国作家批评这个观点：{{quotation|这是……错误的想法，认为营养不良的猫更利于猎捕，能抓到更多的老鼠；这也是一个严重的错误。没有食物的猫缺乏活力死气沉沉，它只要抓到一只老鼠来吃完，就会躺下休息、睡觉不再继续捕鼠，而只有吃饱了它才会很清醒，并按其天性去抓老鼠。<ref>Mauny de Mornay, ''Livre de l'eleveur et du proprietaire d'animaux domestiques'' 1837 http://books.google.com/books?printsec=frontcover&dq=intitle:%22animaux+domestiques%22&lr=&as_drrb_is=b&as_minm_is=0&as_miny_is=1800&as_maxm_is=0&as_maxy_is=1880&cd=36&pg=PA287&id=tBkGwxXqxpgC&num=100&as_brr=1#v=onepage&q&f=false</ref>}}

1844年，另一位法国作家解释这个观点：
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{{quote|text=一般而言，鄉間的貓食並不受到重視，貓被任其自生自滅，說是要讓牠自己獵食。然而，當貓餓的時候，牠們尋找倉庫裡的糧食更甚於獵捕老鼠，這是因為貓並不以追逐與尋找老鼠為必須，而是由於天性與吸引力使然。所以，不餵食貓將使牠們變得無用且有害。不過，定時且適量的給牠們些許屑食，貓就不會造成破壞，也會帶來許多益處。<ref>Nicolas Jean Baptiste Boyard, ''Manuel du bouvier et zoophile: ou l'art d'élever de soigner les animaux '' 1844 http://books.google.com/books?pg=RA2-PA328&dq=intitle:%22animaux+domestiques%22+chat&lr=&as_drrb_is=b&as_minm_is=0&as_miny_is=1800&as_maxm_is=0&as_maxy_is=1880&cd=49&id=ODpFAAAAYAAJ&num=100&as_brr=1#v=onepage&q=intitle%3A%22animaux%20domestiques%22%20chat&f=false</ref>}}
"好貓獵得多，吃得少。"他繼續說明。當貓以捕鼠為樂甚於覓食時，期望一隻貓於狩獵生存是多麼不合理。

1876年，Gordon Stables強調給與貓特定食物的必要：
{{quote|text=如果要讓貓變成更有價值的害蟲殺手，牠應該攝取規律且充分的食物。一隻貓一天至少需餵食兩次。讓牠有一個自己的盤子，放在地上讓牠用餐，用餐完畢後再拿走。判定食物量時，經驗是最好的老師，而食物內容則要多樣化。燕麥粥、牛奶或者浸潤溫牛奶的白麵包，添加少許糖，這些都是貓咪理想的早餐；晚餐時，要增加肉類。

白灼燈比起馬肉對牠更好，偶而讓牠吃魚。

教導你的貓咪在供餐前耐心等待，一隻被寵壞的貓就像被寵壞的小孩一樣討人厭。如果想讓你的貓漂亮且乾淨，偶而餵食牠一英吋大的鮮奶油。這不僅能作為一種溫和的瀉藥，油脂與牠唾液的鹼混合後，會形成一種自然貓皂，然後你會注意到牠開始著手清洗自己，變得美麗乾淨。（注意：如果你希望貓咪為了展示而完美的清理，用沾滿鮮奶油的海綿抹上牠的全身，當牠在舔舐自己的時候會有卓越的效果。）

Remember that too much flesh-meat, especially liver,—which ought only to be given occasionally,—is very apt to induce a troublesome diarrhoea (looseness). Do not give your pet too many tit-bits at table; but whatever else you give her, never neglect to let her have her ''two regular meals''.<ref>Gordon Stables,'' 'Cats': their points and characteristics, with Curiosities of cat life, and ...'' 1876 http://books.google.com/books?pg=PA371&dq=cat+food+%22cat+food%22&lr=&as_drrb_is=b&as_minm_is=0&as_miny_is=1850&as_maxm_is=0&as_maxy_is=1880&cd=11&id=iUUDAAAAQAAJ&num=100&as_brr=0#v=onepage&q=cat%20food%20%22cat%20food%22&f=false</ref>}}

In the same year, an advertisement for [[Spratt's|Spratt]] (better known for making dog food) said that their cat food entirely superseded "the unwholesome practice of feeding on boiled horse flesh; keeps the cat in perfect health."<ref>ad for Spratt's http://books.google.com/books?id=5-ANAAAAQAAJ&pg=PP8&dq=cat+food+%22cat+food%22&lr=&as_drrb_is=b&as_minm_is=0&as_miny_is=1850&as_maxm_is=0&as_maxy_is=1880&num=100&as_brr=0&cd=26#v=onepage&q=cat%20food%20%22cat%20food%22&f=false</ref> And, in another book on cats, Stables recommended the company's food:

{{quote|text=Attend to the feeding, and, at a more than one-day show, cats ought to have ''water'' as well as milk. I think boiled [[Lights (offal)|lights]], cut into small pieces, with a very small portion of bullock's liver and bread soaked, is the best food; but I have tried Spratt's Patent Cat Food with a great number of cats, both of my own and those of friends, and have nearly always found it agree; and at a cat show it would, I believe, be both handy and cleanly.<ref>Gordon Stable, ''The domestic cat'', 1876, 61 http://books.google.com/books?printsec=frontcover&dq=%22+%22+intitle:cat&lr=&as_drrb_is=b&as_minm_is=0&as_miny_is=1850&as_maxm_is=0&as_maxy_is=1880&cd=10&pg=PA61&id=30oDAAAAQAAJ&num=100&as_brr=1#v=onepage&q&f=false</ref>}}

Spratt, which began by making dog biscuits, appears to also have been the first commercial producer of cat food.

During the 19th century and early-20th centuries, meat for cats and dogs in London, frequently [[Horse meat]], was sold from barrows (hand–carts) by itinerant traders known as ''Cats' Meat Men''.<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.museumoflondonprints.com/image/68598/john-galt-cats-meat-man-c-1901 | title=Cats' Meat Man: c.1901 | publisher=Museum of London | accessdate=October 2, 2012 | archive-date=2020-08-13 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200813121442/https://www.museumoflondonprints.com/image/68598/john-galt-cats-meat-man-c-1901 | dead-url=yes }}</ref>
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