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Food Placement and Dish Material

Tourbillion — Sat, 09 Feb 2008 01:11:29 GMT

I am not eating anything out of a smelly plastic bowl. NO! not me, only a nice clean little plate will do.

I personally wont eat any food that has migrated to the back of my plate. The trip across the plate is too much for me. I wont eat any food that has fallen on the floor either.

My human has a "trick" of pushing the food back to the front of the plate. I won't stand for this anymore.

How about you guys?

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CVMA FIGHTS FOR THE RIGHT TO MUTILATE YOUR CAT

aquamarinedreamqueen — Mon, 07 Mar 2005 08:30:39 GMT

California Veterinary Medical Association is filing a lawsuit against the city of West Hollywood to challenge the law that prevents the declawing of cats in that city. There is a gathering to protest this CVMA lawsuit. Details follow...
CVMA FIGHTS FOR THE RIGHT TO MUTILATE

The CVMA has scheduled a press conference for tomorrow, March 6, 2005 at 10 am at Laurel Pet Hospital in West Hollywood (7970 Santa Monica Blvd., 323-654-7060, at Laurel Canyon and Santa Monica Blvds.) to announce their suit against West Hollywood's ban against declawing.

Why the California Veterinary Medical Association wants to spend its time challenging the will of the 37,000 citizens of West Hollywood when it could be working to end pet overpopulation or other serious issues is as puzzling as it is disturbing.

CVMA's British brethren, the Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons, calls declawing "mutilation." Declawing is considered unethical by almost all the veterinarians in the rest of the world.

It would be a shame if protestors spoiled their nice press conference.

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Rescued Baby Rats in SF

Alexandra — Mon, 17 Jan 2005 23:10:06 GMT

Hi Everyone,

I am foster mom for 17 gentle & tame baby rats. ALL are ready for adoption now. I have hand-raised them; they are tame, brave, and REALLY do not bite. They even like to cuddle and be petted. Various colors; creams, browns, plus several black, brown or cream hooded. They have had a check-up from the doctor and are healthy and sound. Ages range from 6 weeks to 4 months.

All of them get along (luckily, one positive outcome of their early confinement), and rats do make better pets as groups, so please consider adopting 2 or 3 together (boys or girls). I am in SF very near Animal Care & Control, which is where all of these siblings/cousins were dumped on Wednesday Dec. 15th.

You may have read about the surrender elsewhere. [On Dec. 15, 178 rats (yes 178) were dropped off at San Francisco Animal Care and Control.] Please adopt 1 or more of my little guys! I am available for adoption visits most days; $10-20 donation adoption fee, incl. neuter if needed, through SFACC. e-mail me to arrange for a visit. Photos available on request, although they are growing so fast i can't keep up! Better just to meet in person. e-mail me at amonk1@juno.com

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My Finicky Bastid...

Thu, 06 Jan 2005 21:08:56 GMT

My American Staffodshire, Bartamus, will only eat his food if I 1)Mix one raw egg into it, 2)Pour some olive oil on top, and 3)Call him over, telling him how good of a boy he is and then kiss him on top of the head....how's that for finicky...???

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ACTIVITY IN THE FOOD SECTOR

Mon, 09 Aug 2004 16:45:00 GMT

ANY activity in the food sector get your interest? It does mine. When my person goes out, I always get toona. Just s tiny bit though because I get it all the time, she wants me to still eat cat food so I can only have a little. Apparently toona doesn't have things cats need like taurine.
sheesh.

I like watching her cook and chop up vegetables. She makes raw things smell intersting by putting them on top of heat. I always want to snif, but when I get offered something, I won't eat it unless I see her take a bite (unless it's cat fuud). I like the smell of onions, but they make me sneez.

Keep on being picky!

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It's all about me.

Thu, 22 Jul 2004 14:07:17 GMT

I like chikkin, but only if I see mom eating a piece of it ferst. Shrimpies are ok, but again, she has to eat it in front of me or screw it I'm not going near it.

Toona, any kind, anywhere.

She called an animal communicator who I like because she told her to buy me lots of different kinds of foods. I like to eat the variety.

I now get to eat the variety every day.

Solid Gold Katzenflocken (mom likes to feed me this mostly because of the lamb, blueberry, flax etc. in it), Science diet light-hairball control, SCience diet natural, and for treat chase, I get different varieties of samples from the pet supply shop and vet.

I don't eat a ton, but I do like the variety. A little of everything. yes, indeedy. because I am the Spoiled Deserver.

Also, I get three bowls of water plus my own personal pretty glass. All for me. Me me and ME. Like it should be. That's how she thinks she tricks me into drinking more water, but I like to sip out of a variety of water containers too.

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pishaw.

Sun, 25 Jul 2004 18:29:43 GMT

I have decided to not eat the science diet naturals anymore. For now. *shrug* I used to like it but now I won't touch it. And I keep changing my mind. HAR!

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Need to switch

Miss Bonnie — Wed, 14 Jul 2004 19:32:44 GMT

My mom wants me to switch from dry food to wet food but i don't really want to. I mean it tastes ok, but I much prefer kibble. I've tried turkey, chicken, and tuna flavors in different brands. Don't like any of them. Help me get over my finicky-ness

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New cat and dog food

Fri, 07 May 2004 15:11:27 GMT

My mum was in this really good pet food store in Carroll Gardens, Brooklyn yesterday where she found this new cat food called (she thinks) Abaya from Poughkeepsie. The dry stuff is covered in masses of copy that could be written by ZeHiter (or Candy). Basically, it includes next to no carbs, tells you that kibble isn't really a good idea for cats, mentions that the process to make kibble is not really one that leads to good feline health, and thus this includes lard and animal products. The guys there say it is really good and showed mum the frozen cat food they make.

Does anyone know anything about this product? Blue is hoping that he can continue eating Wellness, but we know Mum is looking for a new food to replace our low fat Iams kibble (shame on her--I love it, the carb fiend that I am).

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New Wellness Flavors/I hate Tuna!

Fri, 12 Dec 2003 17:29:13 GMT

Hey friends,

My mum came home last night with some new varieties of cans of wellness. As you might know, I am obsessed with this food--I vomit on everything else and while that's fun, it doesn't always impress my mum or her friends for that matter. Humans.

Anyway, has anyone tried these out? Chicken and lobster and the shrimp and crab varieties sound very good, but I am a little concerned that they don't say human grade on them. Also, ZeHitler cat has warned us about the rice they added.

Anyway, happy eating. I'm off to sleep on top of the food cabinets.

Also, had tuna last night for the first time. It is horrible. I am fussy and can't believe the reputation that stuff has. I scratched by my bowl to show my disapproval. I haven't vomited it up though (yet). No wonder they're telling pregnant humans not to eat it.

Blue

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cat nip tea bags!!

ozzy — Sat, 10 Apr 2004 19:58:11 GMT

momma got me some! but after about half an hour i forget where i put the thing *spacey*

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Tuna

Kitty — Wed, 31 Mar 2004 08:59:34 GMT

I only eat Trader Joes Tongol Tuna.I wont eat their Albacore.I certainly wont eat anything like Chicken of the Sea or Starkist.And TJ's tuna for cats? You've got to be kidding.I wouldn't even offer that to a dog!

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Insisting capriciously on getting just what one wants

Pickles — Thu, 12 Feb 2004 00:07:32 GMT

Here's an article you don't want your parents to see ... That is, if you still want to get your way when it comes to dinner! :P

http://www.ivillage.com/pets/petsymptomsolver/eating/articles/0,,413225_417005,00.htmlarrivalSA=1&cobrandRef=0&arrival_freqCap=2

If the link breaks you should be able to finkd the article on:
www.ivillage.com /pets/petsymptomsolver/eating/

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Ethical foods

Pickles — Mon, 19 Jan 2004 22:50:16 GMT

Hi, I want to carry over a discussion that's going on in the "Chihuahua Unites Club" postings
(Gracie's parental Aaron posted it, thanks Aaron!)

Apparently Iams engages in some nasty unfriendly animal testing with their cat and dog food:
http://www.peta.org/feat/iams/

Thought you would like to know if you eat that stuff.

There's a lot of good threads in there, for example, a list of companies that DO NOT engage in animal testing:
http://www.peta.org/feat/iams/food.html

And if you are a finicky bastad (and I know you are) and little and a dog I recommend Natural Balance Food Rolls - (Natural Balance is on the kind list) cause they are some tasty shit and can be cut up for little mouths.

http://www.naturalbalanceinc.com/products/DFRolls.html

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dry food

dmitricat — Tue, 06 Jan 2004 17:28:18 GMT

My daddies want to change my dry food right now i eat Nutro Natural Choice weight management which I LOVE!

any recomendations for something different that healthy and good?

peace from snowy Seattle

d

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SIPS

Pickles — Sat, 27 Sep 2003 00:29:35 GMT

I love ANYTHING alcoholic! I go wild when I sniff the beer and once mom let me lap up some champagne (It was a special occasion) and it was SO divine! I was all MORE MORE MORE!!! But she said "No puppy, it's not good for you, only us humans can indulge in bad behavior." NOT FAIR! Those bubbles on my tongue made me run figure eights and donuts I tell you! Why is it us dawgs like the alcohol so much, does anyone know?

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Carbs!

Thu, 04 Dec 2003 22:27:20 GMT

I love carbs but my teeth can't really cope with them. I mean, couscous is good as it is just the right size, but, try as I might, I can't steal a bite from my Mum's bagel (my paw can swipe it fair and square, but it's the biting that I can't cope with).

Any other carb lovers out there? Nothing beats Whole Foods French butter cookies crumbled up and served on a nice newspaper.

Peeps

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I hate guinea hen

zeHitler — Mon, 13 Oct 2003 19:43:06 GMT

I have found a new item to loathe: guinea hen. That Woman ran out of poussin over the weekend, which was our Ground Whole Prey du Fortnight. It's fairly delicious, but sometimes I need to be persuaded to eat it. So she went to the pet store that carries the ground whole prey, and found that the only meat they had in stock was turkey necks, chicken backs and necks, quail, guinea hen and rabbit. I'd already told her in no uncertain terms what I thought of the quail and rabbit, and the turkey and chicken contain too much calcium, so she thought, well, guinea hen is sort of like poussin, right? After all, they're both miniature poultry. And so she bought a 2-lb. package.

Oh man. How can I convey how heinous this stuff is? First of all, it looks, smells and tastes like CHICKEN. UGH. And it's really wet, even wetter than poussin. Double UGH. That Woman had to mix some canned salmon in it, but even that didn't get my appetite going like it normally does. She finally had to hand-feed most of it to me, which made me laugh inside because it makes her hands really disgusting and messy.

So I hate guinea hen with a passion, and That Woman told me that I have to tough it out for a week until the pet store gets some squab or poussin in stock.

Oh, the humanity!

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i heart chicken

dmitricat — Thu, 04 Dec 2003 20:25:23 GMT

Last night for the first time ever i jumped up on my daddies lap while he was enjoying a delicous chicken dinner that my other daddy made. See I've been watching my older bro axel (btw i got a new pic with him in it so you can see the hell i live with!) do this for years and i usually am to classy for this kinda stuff.

Well my daddy gave in and gave me a juicy chunk of breast meat and i was in heaven!!! tell your parents to feed you chicken!! organic free rage of course. you'll love it

xo
d

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Best commercial treat ever!

zeHitler — Thu, 06 Nov 2003 02:57:48 GMT

Right, so this is probably going to gross out the vegetarian or borderline vegetarian humans on this Tribe.... but the best damn treat ever is Moo Bits. They're little chunks of dehydrated cow lung. Yes. Cow lung. Nothing else. No filler. No preservatives. Holy motherfuck they're tasty. I could eat them all day long. Crunchy and tasty and packed with protein.

That Woman saw Baa Bits, which are pieces of dehydrated lamb lung, at the grocery store down the street. Can't hardly wait until the Moo Bits run out because as my friends know already, I'm cuckoo for anything lamb....

What are your favorite treats? I've had tiny dried shrimp, which are good but not great. Bonito flakes are awesome, but man they float away in the breeze so easily. Which makes them fun to chase, but then the whole floor is covered in tiny fish flakes, which drives That Woman nuts. (heh heh)

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New batch of food!

zeHitler — Mon, 27 Oct 2003 04:43:52 GMT

So about once a month That Woman turns our kitchen into a regular abbatoir to make our chunks-o'-meaty-goodness breakfast. I'm posting this information here for those who might be remotely interested in what Eric and I eat. And goddammit, this IS my tribe so I'll spout whatever uninteresting crap I feel like, mwahaha....

But for those who don't want to wade through the whole tiresome post (and even for those who do), I'll ask this question first--what do you guys eat on a regular basis? Why do you love it/hate it? Or is it so instinctual that you can't really say?

Anyway, this is what That Woman got us. All meats are free range, antibiotic/hormone free and vegetarian fed unless otherwise noted.

1.5 lbs. "country" style pork ribs
6 lamb shanks totalling about 5.8 lbs.
1 turkey half-breast with bone and ribs, totalling about 1.5 lbs.
1 5-pack package of chicken thigh with skin, totalling about 1.5 lbs. (organic)
1 lb. lamb arm chops (conventionally raised--the other kind are out of That Woman's $2.99/lb. for cat food price cap)
1.5 lbs. lamb stew meat (conventionally raised--see above)
2 lbs. chicken gizzards (conventionally raised--but only because the fruity natural foods stores don't carry organic chicken organs except liver, dammit)
4 lbs. lamb hearts
1.5 lbs. lamb liver
2 lbs. lamb kidney

Lamb organs are courtesy of the farmer's market, awwww snap! Gotta love the "buying from a small, ethically-run family-owned farm" action.

She separates all meat from the bone, since lamb and turkey bones are much too hard for us to handle. The whole process took her about 3 hours, including cleanup. It'd be faster if she didn't have such wimpy arms and she could saw through the ligaments on the lamb shanks faster. This batch was especially large, and we have enough breakfast to last us over 6 weeks.

Our dinners are bought and prepared in a much more piecemeal manner since it varies. She gets 7 lbs. of chicken necks every 3 weeks, and ground whole prey according to availability (they typically come in 2-lb packagages, which works out to 8 days' worth of dinner for the both of us). We also get treats in the form of quality canned food (usually PetGuard or Wellness) mixed in with our chicken necks and canned salmon a couple three times a week.

I'm looking forward to snubbing this new batch of food like I always do, even though it's not substantially different from the previous batch. After a few days, though, I'm tricked into thinking it's actually good stuff and will eat it with relish. Or at least sometimes I will, when the planets are aligned correctly and the voices in my head tell me it's OK.

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GOOD FOOD FOR CATZ?

minusnine — Sun, 12 Oct 2003 00:35:26 GMT

Does anyone know what company/ies sell cat food made with human grade organic, hormone-free, free-range meat?

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An easy, tasty treat!

zeHitler — Sat, 11 Oct 2003 07:37:17 GMT

That Woman came up with this tonight when we were both really hungry and needed a pre-dinner snack. It's good for our skin and coats and is full of B vitamins, protein and good fats (not all fats are created equal).

Are you ready for the super-complicated recipe???

1 large raw egg yolk
1/2 tablespoon melted butter
1/4 teaspoon nutritional yeast (optional)

Get your human to whisk all three ingredients together briskly with a fork and pour the shit into a dish. Then slurk it up. Make sure to groom your whiskers afterwards.

Some cats are intolerant of eggs, dairy and/or yeast. So if you're one of those--this recipe probably isn't that great an idea.

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gourmet or nothin'

Martian cat — Fri, 03 Oct 2003 07:10:19 GMT

Considering the fact that i'm a glutton, I can be rather finicky. I like the really expensive food, but when my owner is on hard times he gets me the cheap crap. And when he pours it in my bowl, I just sit there and look at him like "i refuse to eat this smut", but then I wait till he goes in the other room, and reluctantly eat a little bit. I am also known to eat; peas, bread, ramen, and of coarse my own hair from the brush. But NOT puke, you guys are just gross!

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Ahhhh.... finally, a good meal!

zeHitler — Fri, 10 Oct 2003 06:44:50 GMT

I absolutely refused to touch the whole ground poussin That Woman tried to feed me last night. Sure, I was gladly eating it the day before, but the planets have since gone out of alignment, thus making it inauspicious for eating miniature poultry. She sounds like she's been hacking up massive hairballs all week, so I think she got tired of tussling with my Iron Will faster than she usually does. (When my palate is feeling exceptionally refined, That Woman sometimes smears the food on my paws and starts me eating that way, which is a dirty trick. But it requires tracking me down and getting me to be still long enough to be smeared, ha!) The bottom line is, she caved in and mixed in some canned salmon in with the poussin. Wow. That was good. I ate everything up and actually licked the plate clean, which is a rarity for me.

The power of canned salmon. Ahhhh.

Anybody else showed their human who was boss lately and got a great meal out of it? Or how 'bout just some good food you had recently?

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Anybody?

Thu, 02 Oct 2003 02:00:25 GMT

my momma thinks i'm SOOO GROSS, cause i like to eat my eye-boogers....i love it so much that if she trys to wipe them off me & then throw them away i will chase her around the house till she lets me lick her fingers....

anybody else disgusting?

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What foods...?

D. — Fri, 26 Sep 2003 19:14:43 GMT

Hello there. As the slave of some picky little kitties, I would like to know what foods you hate that do not even need to be cooked.

Sterling and Roxy can not 'abide' oranges. Sterling even gags when she smells them. Sabastian can not tollerate cinnamon or any spice like that. Against all odds, WS ,White Sox, does not like Salmon. ...not even raw. Rex is the only one who is not so picky.

What odd foods do you the kitties like?

Roxy will eat hot sauce and drink my wine if I am not looking. Sabastian loves green olives and oranges. ...but it may be just to piss Sterling off. ;) Sterling will kill for some icecream or american cheese, however, that it not so odd.

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Soilent Kitty's

gothpunk — Mon, 29 Sep 2003 04:46:51 GMT

ya I read fast food nation I'm not buying that the fancy "eco friendly food" I'm getting fed now is any diffrent, I'm taking a chunk out of the next human leg that walks close enough,, ya ya that's it

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seafood!

dmitricat — Sat, 27 Sep 2003 20:46:43 GMT

when a was younger tuna scared me and i hide under the chair... but at the moment my fav is halibut cheeks..

d

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I love olives!

Daphne — Fri, 26 Sep 2003 20:10:42 GMT

I also love pat`e and caviar! My brother doesn't like red meat and I only like lean red meat. As for wine, I've haven't tried it, but have been very curious and love to stick my face in the glass to smell it. I'm sure it would go great with the fancy blue cheese my mom loves!

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I love olives!

Daphne — Fri, 26 Sep 2003 20:10:10 GMT

I also love pat`e and caviar! My brother doesn't like red meat and I only like lean red meat. As for wine, I've been tried it, but have been very curious and love to stick my face in the glass to smell it. I'm sure it would go great with the fancy blue cheese my mom loves!

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