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Why do cats eat spiders?

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Catsrule56

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Most cats are curious and will pick or eat at anything that interests them. Spiders and other little bugs are also easy prey for cats so they get in the habit of easily catching and eating them, it probably even taste good to them..

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Insects are not a part of the cat's normal diet. But as small critters move about the indoor cats can get exited enough of the hunt and eventually eat their prey, the insect.

If the cats were living in the nature their kittens would eat worms and other little critters to add to their diet, the food their mother would bring. So keeping that in mind, it is not that exceptional to find cats eating bugs. Adult cats would not do that in nature, though. It would be wasting their effort and energy.

But as we keep indoor cats in a way always childlike (we neuter them and provide them with regular food supply) the cats have the extra energy to blunder into a pure joyride: hunting an unworthy prey.

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A spider eats insects and bugs. A centipede is a bug so a spider would eat a centipede.

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Yes they do because the centipede feeds on the spider.I know that spiders feed on bugs but I don't think the centipede is a bug I don't know but yes centipedes do kill spiders for food.

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