Wiktionary
n. A type of food specially formulated for the feeding of cats, typically composed of processed grain as dry food or canned fish as wet food.
WordNet
n. food prepared for cats [syn: cat chow]
Wikipedia
Cat food is a food for consumption by cats. Cats have requirements for their specific dietary nutrients. Certain nutrients, including many vitamins and Amino acids are degraded by the temperatures, pressures and chemical treatments used during manufacture, and hence must be added after manufacture to avoid nutritional deficiency. The amino acid taurine, for example, which is found within meat, is degraded during processing, so synthetic taurine is normally added afterwards. Long-term taurine deficiency resulting, for example, from feeding taurine-deficient dog food, may result in retinal degeneration, loss of vision, and cardiac arrest.
Usage examples of "cat food".
Tonight he was buying unusual items like flour, potatoes, bananas, and canned cat food.
Large, tempting dishes of Calo cat food spiked with Tri-Dormal-G, as a matter of fact.
Are you sure there's not something you'd like to trade for Becker's cat food, cousin?
Captain Becker, if you would be so kind as to bring some of our cat food cargo down here to share among the convalescents, we can tell these folks about the tainted food after we revive their guardians.
She quickly firmed it as one of the patrolmen stepped into the kitchen carrying two cans of cat food.
I will prepare Spam and cat food for him, which is about the same thing as in hot dogs.
She programmed a pot of coffee, got down mugs, thensending a cautious glance toward the officewent to the small utility closet and dug into the space behind the cat food for the bag of triple chocolate chunk cookies.
Karen pulled out one or two tag ends of bacon and added them to the cat food on the back porch.