My cats were all over the place with what they would or wouldn’t eat. One really loved donuts and we really had to work to keep him out of them. Some of the others wouldn’t touch human food.

I’ve noticed some of the wild animals have food preferences, but they are all our patients, so we have a responsibility to only give them stuff they are supposed to have. I don’t know how different the rules are with the educational animals, as they are a little different and I don’t work with them, but for us to care for the injured animals, our goal has to remain 100% to getting them back to the wild and into their natural environment. Getting them used to any people type foods would only encourage them to live closer to people, which is usually what got them hurt to start with.

I was thinking about this some the other day when someone mentioned Harry Potter in one of the Snowy posts and I was reading some of the Hedwig scenes and it talked about her liking to snack on toast and how that didn’t seem like a very owlish snack. When you have to swallow things whole, dry toast doesn’t sound like the best food.

Honestly I’m not even sure how eating straight carbs or fats would work with their digestive systems being so much different than ours are, especially since they don’t typically drink and get most of their water through their prey’s water content. Eating a bunch of dry stuff might cause them some distress. Owl stomach acid is also very weak, so I don’t know how much variation on diet they could accommodate with that too.