Silkworm cat grub smells like success


By AGENCY

A resident feline at the Mao Thai Thai cat cafe in New Taipei City is one of 15 feline volunteer taste-testers sampling a new cat food containing a rather unusual base ingredient – silkworm pupae. Photo: AFP

Licking its lips imperiously, a ginger cat mops up every last morsel of food from its curly whiskers, clearly undaunted by its supper’s rather unusual base ingredient: silkworm pupae.

The 15 feline residents of the Mao Thai Thai cat cafe in Taiwan are among volunteer taste testers sampling a new cat food developed by silkworm experts.

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