Cat update and other news

[lexin]

I know you’re all still on the edge of your seats to hear how I’m doing with Smokey

Comments

[shezan]

When you say "serious" cat food available at a supermarket, do you mean cat food a vet approves of?

And how can one test cat food if not on animals? On prison inmates? Public schoolboys (who presumably would see it as a great improvement)?

[lexin]

Pretty much. The hate among cat people seems to be for 'cat food you buy in grocers', as opposed to 'real' cat food you buy from specialist pet suppliers.

I have to say my previous cats ate Whiskas (the leading 'grocer' brand in the UK) and were fine on it.

[lexin]

As for the testing, I don't know how else you'd test cat food except on cats. Seems logical to me.

Possibly on old people whose pensions are too low to have a decent standard of living.

[pickledginger]

That explains the Iams, then. It wouldn't make sense to test-market a food on people who couldn't afford to buy it later! ;-)

Good luck with the benefits quote; should, at least, be interesting.

[pickledginger]

That explains the Iams, then. It wouldn't make sense to test-market a food on people who couldn't afford to buy it later! ;-)

Good luck with the benefits quote; should, at least, be interesting. And I certainly can understand not wanting to work for These People.

[lexin]

It surely would!

[coughingbear]

This is obviously biased in the sense that it's produced by the company, but their testing policy doesn't sound unreasonable to me. As far as I can see, some years ago they were using a laboratory with very poor conditions, but they stopped doing so. PETA (I think it's them) run another site called iamscruelty but I find it a bit unconvincing as it seems to conflate past and present.

[lexin]

I'm a bit unconvinced by PETA in general, especially as at one place I looked at on that site they're suggesting that there's a healthy way to feed a cat on a vegetarian diet. There isn't. Cats eat meat.