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You ever think how weird it is that cats LOVE tuna?

I mean, in the wild, it's probably the animal they have the LEAST chance of ever eating. It's a deep-sea ocean fish that is a hundred times bigger than a cat. There is NO chance that a cat EVER managed to take down a tuna. EVER.

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I love tuna. I've never even *seen* one.

No weirder than that I love tuna; my evolutionary ancestors may have tickled trout, gathered clams, or cast lines for any number of river fish, but that cat in the other room is more generations away from the first deep-sea fishing boat than I am.

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That's what I was thinking!

My dog likes cookies, even though in the wild, he would be unable to obtain butter, sugar, flour, baking soda, and it'd be difficult for him to break the eggs in a controlled fashion. Forget using the mixer.

It is fish. It is boneless and available. Cats like fish. Cats don't like work (hunting is play, when you get fed anyway). Free fish. What more is there to say?

You ever wonder how weird it is that humans like Cheet-Os?

What's the chances that a chicano kid from New Mexico would love Guinness and sushi? Two best things in life. Other than wife's assets, that is.

Interesting. I'll have to use that in an argument the next time someone drones on an on and on about how cats shouldn't be locked up in a house/apartment (in the City, mind you) because "cats are wild/free spirited creatures who need to be outdoors once in a while".

The last half of that statement isn't so silly. The first half gets them dumped in the woods when people can't be bothered with the shedding.

I'm pretty sure I'd have trouble bringing down a cow.

I'd sure as hell wrestle a deer to the ground, though, if I caught it eating my garden.

Ha, I have often thought about that, especially considerint that most cats abhor water. Still, I like a lot of things I couldn't take down in the wild, like someone mentioned: Cheetos. I just want you to know I have considered the same seeming paradox.

I think the fallacy in your argument is that you're assuming that taste for a food must, evolutionarily, follow from the ability to acquire it. I would contend that it is most likely the other way around--that a taste for a food is what inspires a being to come up with a way to acquire it.

This is precisely what cats did. They wanted to eat tuna, but couldn't catch it themselves. They simply waited for humans, with those useful opposable thumbs, to evolve to the point where they learned how to catch a tuna. They then made themselves so cuddly and adorable that humans couldn't resist them, and would therefore give them some tuna.

Truly, evolution works in mysterious ways.

Oh, I DO like that argument!

Hamsters also love tuna. Tiny desert dwelling rodents - go figure...

:didn't even know that hampsters ate anything non vegetable:

Most canned tuna is albacore ( 8lbs) that are surface feeders. Yellowfin and skipjack are similar. Blue fin tuna weigh up to 1,000 lbs and are never found in a can as it retails for $30-$40 per pound.
I have seen cats with tuna on the beach.

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