Pets (Bad Food Epidemic) Chat

[Riko Rain]

Well honestly Im getting a bit paranoid. First the peanut butter. Now the pet foods. Who knows what will be next?

I have the whole article on the pet foods. Certain wet pet foods are just now being known to cause severe kidney and liver disorders and failure in common household pets, often dogs and cats. Symptoms are lack of appetite, vomiting, sleeping an abnormal amount, drinking alot, and peeing alot. Of course. Hell, if MY kidneys were failing I would be thirsty too.

Luckily the kinds of wet pet food we get arent on the list. We get Friskies (which is made by Purina, same as Mighty Dog, but we checked and its not on the list. Still, we are wary. Luckily we only have one can of this, so its no big loss) and SPECIAL KITTY, made by the Walmart Company.

These are the kinds (brand names and makers) suspected to be dangerous:

Authority
Award
Eukanuba
Grreat Choice
Hills/Science Diet
Iams
Menu Foods
Mighty Dog
Mixables
Nutro
Sophisticat

[maden]

So its only wet pet food doing this? If thats the case then I should be in the clear then. Lady only eats the dry kind of pet food and it hasn't done anything to her.

[Riko Rain]

Still, I wouldnt buy anything thats like "With Mighty dog!" in it. I know they do that with some cat foods. "Hard chunks with soft inner tuna flavored!". Or something. Maybe even watch for any brand thats still on the list. We buy Purina, which the cats LOVE.

[maden]

You too huh. We've bought Purina ever since we first got Lady and she still eats it. Its pretty cheap too for the huge bag we get. It lasts for a long time too so thats a plus.

[Riko Rain]

It used to be really expensive. Like 2 dollars more than the others, but then I noticed that Friskies was bought by Purina, and then I also noticed Purina had dropped their prices. So.. yah. Purina has got this one brand "Grassy greens" for cats. OMG, all 7 of them think its a treat, its so good to them. They go bonkers for it.

[maden]

Heh Lady eats theses Milk Bone treats we got her and loves them to death. She'll go through four of them and still want more heh. Speaking of cats, my brother has to get rid of his apparently.

[Riko Rain]

I woudlnt be surprised. Your brother is kinda on the immature irresponsible side, so to say. Cats rockkkk.

Man flea season is coming around,, we're dipping our cats liek crazy with this REVOLUTION stuff from the vets office. You can only get it there, and it works really well. Youre supposed to use 1 tube per 20 pounds.. but we just do liek 4 drops per cat, and dont do the cats who will need to be constantly bathed anyway (Likeit has about 24 drops in there. 4 for each cat, smallest to biggest but when you get to draco you empty it all on him cus hes fuzzy..). Especially since the cats had worms from the pound, and they spread via fleas, and Rika and Vala havent had the shot yet so we cant let them spread again or its a waste!

[maden]

Yeah he is. He's moving back in with us...again but that chats for some place else. We might take his cat in pending he hasn't given it away yet or if he's just going to leave it there. I wouldn't mind taking it in as logn as he hasn't messed it up in anyway.

Oh wow flea season you say? Crap going to have to get that medicine/flea remover stuff for Lady before she starts biting herself to no end.

[Riko Rain]

The stuff from the vet is really good, but you might have to do liek 3 doses or something. I know if you buy 6, you get a 7th free, and its like a grand total of 76$. But it works, it doesnt leave all that icky oily stuff (its got some alcohol in it so it soaks into their fur and stuff or evaporates the stinkies). It works well, like I said. Better than any of the others we've had.

Kittyyyyy woot woot. But doesnt Lady attack kitties? Darn lady.. scaredy dog suddenly has to be not so scared of a cat. Kitten. Whatever.

[maden]

Hmmm going to have to look into that yep yep.

Ah heh Ziggy's in my brothers room hiding under his bed. Lady hasn't gone in there yet so there hasn't been any problems so far. He's pretty big for being about a year old.

[Riko Rain]

Ah yah. Well, let him explore your brothers room in total safety (no Lady) for about 2-3 days. Then one day just open the door and let him see it. Supervise where he goes and where Lady is in relation. When they come in contact, make sure someone is a third person to sway of any fighting. Little growls, yah.. fine, not too big. No snapping. If your bro is gonna be there for a while, both pets need to be taught that fighting, snapping, and hurting eachother is BAD. A little thunk on the nose relative to size should do it.

Meh I could go on but thats the jist of it. Its pretty easy, just annoying because you always have to be there supervising. Itll prolly take about a week and half overall before you can start relaxing on the supervising.

[maden]

Heh he's exploring alright. Lady hasn't noticed he's in there for the most part. I mean she knows somethings in there but shes not clawing her way into there.

[Riko Rain]

Yah cats are funny that way. They are easy to adapt, but if you were to just let him roam out free with Layd, I gauruntee he woudl flip out KUNG FOO on EVERYONE.

I am reminded of when I was playing with Leelu, withthis long green string, just regular yarn string, and has a red tassle a the end with the bell. And I was twirling it around her so that where she went it would go. Well it tinked kinda loud, scared her, she ran away, it was stuck on her tail, wrapped aorund, so it followed her.

Nuff said I htink you can guess what happened.

Leelu: AHHHHHHHHHHH ITS CHASING ME!!
Me: nO NO ON WAIT! Comehere wait!!!
Leelu: AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

All around the house

[reallays]

Recently over 75% of pet food is haveing a recall on it, according to CNN, CNN Site, and Many other sites. If you have an animal I suggest feed them hot dogs, balogne, ect. . China provides our wheat for our pet food, but iraq said they would poison our food. China never liked us, and iraq teaches there children to kill us human food is not the best for our animals, but unless we make our own food we cant do much.

lol i know more than people think i would =]

[Riko Rain]

Yes but mostly its the wet food. The wet food is the kind that can easily hold basteria and diseases, as it is wet, and kept in a dark sealed can. Its just like when you find a can with rust or such at the store, youre not supposed to buy it because it could be contaminated.

Maybe this is a pet food revolution?

I mean for too long Ive listened to real-life shit where it says that all the stuff in pet foods is all the stuff HUMANS wont eat. Liek parts of the animal we find degrading to eat and disgusting, they give to pets. So maybe theyll begin to actually put good decent food in with the pets.. but then again, maybe not.

I feed mine a good dose of meat/fat cuttings, hamburger, chicken cuttings, and other meat. They also like vegetables, such as avacado (good for their coat), lettuce, home grown grass, celery, brocolli, and such. They also like cereal, peanuts, crackers, chips, and tortillas. My cats are SO SPOILED.