By: jason's_planet
Now I have some gour-met eatin' to look forward to when I'm collecting Social Security. Thank you, FancyFeast.
View ArticleBy: bitter-girl.com
And for the small dog / cold kitten owners out there, I present this sweater pattern from RedLipstick. I knit one for my friend's bald chihuahua and tested it out on my cat (who's asthmatic and should...
View ArticleBy: Smilla's Sense of Snark
miss lynster: call me insane, but I make dogsweaters for my pit bull. She's got short hair, sparse to the point of near-naked patches on her tummy, no undercoat, and very low body fat. When she's...
View ArticleBy: bitter-girl.com
We call them "The Children" in a 110% sarcastic tone of voice, because they run the house much as human children tend to do... but the other term usually employed is "the furbeasts" or "the beasts."
View ArticleBy: everichon
I don't call my cats fur-kids, but that's pretty much what it amounts to. My sense of the MeFi demographic is that this is, if not the norm, at least not unusal. So: *raspberry*
View ArticleBy: lekvar
I'd just like to ask, what the hell is up with calling your pets "fur kids?" They aren't little humans! It's all a symptom of something-or-other. Honestly.
View ArticleBy: everichon
My cat was just snarfing down some spinach linguine with red sauce the other evening. He came up and did that "I'ma sniff your plate" thing, and I called his bluff, and he called my bluff, and ate...
View ArticleBy: bitter-girl.com
Spike and Giles eat dry food with the occasional, shared can of Trader Joe's pet tuna. They've tried to convince us to give them a can a day but we are Bad Parents and don't give in to their "5:00...
View ArticleBy: shiu mai baby
The thing that doubly kills me about the Fancy Feast crap is that the suggested daily ration is one can per three pounds of cat. So my cat is just shy of 15 pounds, which means, by their calculations,...
View ArticleBy: malocchio
I won't feed our cats anything that has "meat by-products" listed as an ingredient. I'm not convinced that the horror stories I've read about it are true, but I'm not going to chance it. Our cats get...
View ArticleBy: miss lynnster
Last time I stayed at the Bel Age Hotel in LA, I couldn't stop laughing at the room service pet menu. The $16 "Bow Wow Sirloin of Beef" sounded quite tasty. Slightly off topic, I'm curious to hear your...
View ArticleBy: caution live frogs
Our spoiled cats get one can of soft food per week. They split it. I figure if we eat pizza on Fridays, they can have a treat too. They go apeshit for the canned stuff. I don't feel bad giving it to...
View ArticleBy: uncleozzy
I kinda thought everyone knew that Fancy Feast was basically kitty McDonald's: you feed it to the kids to shut them up, not because it's good or good for them. Why a "celebrity chef" (even one like...
View ArticleBy: tkchrist
When chickens learn how to use the litterbox and will snuggle my neck and purr in my ear in pure post-coital bliss, then you will have a point. OMFG! Vronsky FUCKS HIS CATS!!!! Why not kill cats to...
View ArticleBy: tkchrist
Seriously, I don't get the whole pet fetish thing. Why is it that some animals are considered as furry "children" and others it's perfectly OK to slaughter without remorse? They gas stray cats and dogs...
View ArticleBy: tehloki
I think I read somewhere that this is a sign that we're officially in the future. Who knew.
View ArticleBy: sugarfish
Mabeline and Amelie live on a diet of hairball busting Eukanuba. Mabeline will only eat cat food, full stop. Amelie would eat roast beef sandwiches with earwax as a condiment if we let her, but we...
View ArticleBy: XQUZYPHYR
My cats ate each others' vomit. They are not, shall we say, connoisseurs.
View ArticleBy: maudlin
Wait a second. You mentioned the litterbox and your neck and your ear, but I'm not sure where the post-coital bit comes in. On second thought, no explanation is necessary, especially if we get the IMG...
View ArticleBy: vronsky
Killing chickens to feed to cats. Why not kill cats to feed to chickens? When chickens learn how to use the litterbox and will snuggle my neck and purr in my ear in pure post-coital bliss, then you...
View ArticleBy: Jeanne
The truly unfortunate thing is that it markets itself as "gourmet" when it's still made out of the same slightly-animal-related products as any grocery store cat food. By all means spend the extra...
View ArticleBy: rubyeyo
We got our two cats a can or two of this when it came out just to see how they responded. Unfortunately it gave them the worst smelly poops we had ever endured. Whatever is in this stuff is horrid and...
View ArticleBy: LordSludge
I had a cat who liked brocolli. Prefered it to anything, including tuna -- I did a side-by-side once. So..., there is that. I almost forgot... Metafilter: Smells like a meaty fart when you open the...
View ArticleBy: sotonohito
Brandon Blatcher wrote "Ladies and gentlemen, I give you capitalism!" A brief rant: Talking about how stupid and/or wasteful and/or pointless something is is bloody part of capitalism. Capitalism...
View ArticleBy: pineapple
Why kill at all? If you examine the physiology of a cat, it is clearly designed to eat only carrots and chickpeas. Feed your cat hummus and tofu. Admittedly, I'm terrible at recognizing sarcasm on...
View ArticleBy: smackwich
My cat consistently vomits when I feed it wet food and turns its nose up at all but the cheapest (meow mix) grocery store kibble.
View ArticleBy: Cookiebastard
Ourthreecats eat only the cheapest store-brand dry food (and the occasional lizard) and they are happy and healthy according to their vet. They have never been allowed table-scraps or canned tuna, and...
View ArticleBy: Jody Tresidder
"Ladies and gentlemen, I give you capitalism!" posted by Brandon Blatcher True. But it's also capitalism heading for a correction. My shallow personal theory is that a noticeable eruption of platinum...
View ArticleBy: tehloki
I sometimes wish metafilter had specific comment mods. "1 Favorite" doesn't do a comment proper justice sometimes. For example, this comment would get a +1 funny, and this one deserves something more...
View ArticleBy: obfusciatrist
My cat won't eat wet food. It is perfectly content with dry Costco cat food. It also won't eat real food either (such as offering it a bit of salmon from my plate or chicken); except for popcorn, it...
View ArticleBy: idigress
My older cat, Chet, had a bad reaction to some medicine about a month ago and stopped eating entirely for almost 4 days. After trying to tempt him with everything in the house, at about 4 AM, I...
View ArticleBy: vronsky
I gave my cat a bowl of this stuff and she GOBBLED it up. So the next day I bought ten cans. She never took another bite. Just sniffed it and walked away. My cat's a dick. Another weird thing about...
View ArticleBy: breezeway
Do Elegant Menus smell better while cooking than regular kibbles? I lived a half-mile from a Purina factory, and a change in the wind would fill the house with charnel house stench. We would sit on the...
View ArticleBy: three blind mice
My three cats enjoy a balanced diet of certified-organic non-growth-hormoned-additive-and-range-free MICE. Well, Dizzy, don't be so sure of that. People are always leaving poisons out to kill mice....
View ArticleBy: rhymer
No matter how much you spend and how good it sounds, I bet it still smells like a meaty fart when you open the can.
View ArticleBy: noble_rot
My cats seem to like whatever I`m eating. And I sure as hell ain`t eating Rocco diSpirito`s Chicken Florentine for Cats.
View ArticleBy: maryh
At our house the old guy, Eustace, is teaching the new guy, Vasco de Gama Those are some great kitty names, Secret Life of Gravy. As much as I loved my puss Saco I never truly missed her until the...
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