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No no, they're still carnivores.
Nothing about their biology changed so that they're no longer classifiable as a carnivore.
Scientifically, they have all the traits of a carnivore, and a predator.
You can't redefine "cat" because we can use supplements to round out their dietary needs.
What you said is like, oh Dracula isn't a vampire anymore, because we found a way to give him an artificial blood substitute that completes his dietary needs....
.... He's still a vampire, he's just getting his fix from something other than a living person.
Carnivorism isn't a biological characteristic of cats. It's a biological characteristic of cat food. Cat food changed.
If cats are still carnivores, then so are pandas.
I mean yeah, pandas way prefer field mice and such, they’re just too slow and stupid to catch anything other than bamboo though
Horses will also opportunistically eat meat if it's available. Are horses carnivores?
Omnivores apparently, same as pandas.
Same as most things on earth, hell even pure herbivores have been known to eat their babies to recover the lost protein and such.
I can’t think of any animal on earth that is pure veggie.
Even hummingbirds pick small insects over nectar whenever possible.
Weird, it’s almost like life is complex and doesn’t fit neatly into boxes like we would like
You're right, nothing on earth is a herbivore, because everything can eat meat. By the same logic, nothing is a carnivore, because everything, cats included, can eat plants. Therefore, cats are not carnivores. They're omnivores, as you say.
I also don’t know that there are any pure carnivores, I’m pretty sure a great white would try to eat seaweed if it was starving