Do Cats Eat Bugs Or Just Kill Them. Whether they're hunting for mice or simply scrambling for spiders, your furry friend has an instinctive drive to catch and in many cases eat his prey. Why do cats chase bugs?
Most of the time, it can do no harm. I have seen cats playing with mice but i have also seen the same cats eating mice. For my own adult cats, i put moist food out for my cats at breakfast and dinner time and leave a bowl of dry food for them to graze on.
I’ve mostly had cats that hunted rodents and the like, which i am happy to encourage.
Then, they introduced bed bugs to the lab and used the lasers to show the cats where they were. To learn if your cat responds to catnip just expose them to some and watch them. Cats have a habit of killing prey and not eating them when they are well fed. A regular fly, worm, moth, butterfly, ladybug or spider, is no problem for cats.