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The point is, pets (whether cat or dog) exist to make our life better, we should deal with them in whatever way convenient or economic; it shouldn't be the other way around.
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Cat owners: insane?
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The point is, pets (whether cat or dog) exist to make our life better, we should deal with them in whatever way convenient or economic; it shouldn't be the other way around.
LucyDuke
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Absolutely, and that's why I spend so much time and money making sure my dog is happy and healthy. You just have to be reasonable about it. The cat will be fine, y'know?
Masquerouge
Deity
That Onion article was quite funny, partly because my wife worries too about leaving the cat alone...
While I think it's important to take good care of your pet, I see some people really overdoing it. And buying the most expensive cat food and getting a catsitter for a one-day trip is, IMO, overdoing it.
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Some cat owners are so militant about pampering their cats, that I was roundly criticized when I suggest to another he should not pay for the most exquisite, all-organic, human-grade cat food. Meat in cat food doesn't need to be human-grade, why? because they are eaten by cats, not human. There is nothing more disgusting that pet owners referring to their pets as "my baby", "my girl/boy".
and my favorite quote from that humorous article:
LucyDuke
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Wow, I sure was startled at the thought of Eran having gotten married over the weekend!
Yup. I don't think the mice in the barn are human-grade, either. The cats seem to dig 'em.
Verbose
Deity
Is wet cat food somehow a tremendous luxury in the US? Exorbitantly expensive?
A can of decent cat food, enough for one of the blighters for a day, is what, a buck a pop?
That's unafordable?
Point being, there's a something to be said for actually knowing a thing or two about how cats work. And no, that doesn't include mistaking cats for humans. That's just well-meant bloody ignorance.
A can of decent cat food, enough for one of the blighters for a day, is what, a buck a pop?
That's unafordable?
Point being, there's a something to be said for actually knowing a thing or two about how cats work. And no, that doesn't include mistaking cats for humans. That's just well-meant bloody ignorance.
Hey, for what its worth, if wet food is better, then Science Diet wet they will get. The money isn't the issue. I just want to run what you said by my vet first.
Ecofarm
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Quit playing with your food and just eat it already.
LucyDuke
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It's not that it's more expensive, although it is. It's that the dry food is just fine, thanks very much. I'm not going to mess about opening cans and transferring food and rinsing cans and washing spoons every time the cat gets hungry. It's a cat. I'm lazy. I don't even like the cat very much. The dry food is fine.
I've had cats and want more cats and I'm probably clinically insane (not over getting cat sitters and the like but I do frequently engage in two-hour long conversations with a feline over Dostoevsky's works), but I don't think I'm very representative for most cat owners.
Of course, visiting a cat-devoted forum would increase the chances that people would suggest pampering your cat to the fullest. Same would go for other such places for other pets.
Of course, visiting a cat-devoted forum would increase the chances that people would suggest pampering your cat to the fullest. Same would go for other such places for other pets.
cubsfan6506
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I used to only feed my cat dry food. But then his teeth wore out with age so the last year of his life or so I fed him wet food.
Ansar
Détente avec l'été
So did mine.
Masquerouge
Deity
Hehe.
But there is also something to be said for cats being overpampered.
I kinda remember you're sorta French, maybe you remember this?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t1qXZTVsVZA
(for the noon-French speaking of you, it says
"For picky cats... we've created the kick in the ass")
http://youtube.com/watch?v=3CgxzVVQjoM&feature=related
I saw this commercial the other day, and while I love cats, people need to understand it is an animal. We have animal spas. We have animal sitters. What an interesting culture we are. We become slaves to our pets. We treat our pets better than some people.
We need balance, somewhere. I don't know.
It is a cat. I shall keep it until it is no longer useful, and I shall eat it. What happened to the days when you grew up on a farm, named the chickens, and still ate them.
Good days. Good days.
I saw this commercial the other day, and while I love cats, people need to understand it is an animal. We have animal spas. We have animal sitters. What an interesting culture we are. We become slaves to our pets. We treat our pets better than some people.
We need balance, somewhere. I don't know.
It is a cat. I shall keep it until it is no longer useful, and I shall eat it. What happened to the days when you grew up on a farm, named the chickens, and still ate them.
Good days. Good days.
I still remember the Thanksgiving when I learned after the meal that the ham we had was in fact Herman, the pig at my uncle's ranch in the Ozarks. It was a rather traumatizing day for me.
Our pets are better than some people.
I wouldn't think Fancy Feast is restaurant-quality food, but it's creative marketing for you.
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I grew up on my grandparents farm in Wisconsin, we raised and dined on our own chicken, but never named them. You don't want to get too personally involved with your food.
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