How to say animal feed in Japanese? Is there a particular verb for eating when the subject is an animal?


Is the verb 食【た】べる used for animals that are eating?

Is animal food called 食事【しょくじ】?

I was having a conversation about a cat. I wanted to know what the cat was
eating and the conversation came off track. I think that the person I was
chatting with thought that I meant that I was eating her cat!

I said

> あなたの猫【ねこ】は何【なに】の食事【しょくじ】を食べますか。

Thank you.




I think you could use [餌]{えさ}.

> あなたの猫はどんな餌を食べますか？

or more simply...

> あなたの猫は何を食べますか？




I think you could use [餌]{えさ}.

> あなたの猫はどんな餌を食べますか？

or more simply...

> あなたの猫は何を食べますか？

