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.
(Also, probably useful to know how much they would pay for, and during, your retirement, but unless Osborne has confused your pay scale with the wherewithal to ensure a lifetime supply of Byron Burgers with organic fries and Duchy Originals ketchup, I always think lump sums only look good for the first week.)
That's what I don't know. I know approximately how much pension I've earned, but I don't know how it would be actuarially reduced if I went early. Probably by too much to make it worthwhile, but we'll see.
I'm with you on lump sums. They look good up front, but you've got to live on the annual pension, not the lump sum.
I get all my pet stuff from www.zooplus.co.uk. They're a German company, and they do a very good range of cat foods, both the usual ones plus some ones that you don't see on sale over here. They have a decent amount of grain-free stuff, if you care about that.
I looked at them, and at http://www.rlpetproducts.co.uk/ which someone recommended and who take PayPal and I ordered a variety that don't make you buy 3kg, which is too much for experimentation.
Iams is a very fine cat food. The other 'platinum' variety is Science Diet. I can afford neither for my crew.
I'm not certain how Iams 'tests' on animals. If it feeds cats different formulations and then dissects them, yes, that would trouble me, but if they test by seeing if the cats like the stuff, that's a no-brainer.
As for PETA, they have their collective heads up their collective bottoms. The idea of trying to feed cats on a vegan diet is the worst sort of idiot cruelty.
Smokey scranned down Iams like it was rare and refreshing fruit. Positive ambrosia as far as she was concerned. I think Science Diet is what they fed them at the RSPCA rescue centre, which probably explains why she turned her little furry nose up at Go-Cat.
As far as I can see, they "test" by seeing if cats like the stuff and once made the mistake of sub-contracting to a less than stellar testing place. They learned their lesson, which is surely the point.
As for the vegetarian cat diet, I never heard anything so stupid or cruel. It's just not reasonable. Cats eat meat. End of.
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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)?
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I have to say my previous cats ate Whiskas (the leading 'grocer' brand in the UK) and were fine on it.
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Possibly on old people whose pensions are too low to have a decent standard of living.
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Good luck with the benefits quote; should, at least, be interesting.
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I'm with you on lump sums. They look good up front, but you've got to live on the annual pension, not the lump sum.
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I'm not certain how Iams 'tests' on animals. If it feeds cats different formulations and then dissects them, yes, that would trouble me, but if they test by seeing if the cats like the stuff, that's a no-brainer.
As for PETA, they have their collective heads up their collective bottoms. The idea of trying to feed cats on a vegan diet is the worst sort of idiot cruelty.
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As far as I can see, they "test" by seeing if cats like the stuff and once made the mistake of sub-contracting to a less than stellar testing place. They learned their lesson, which is surely the point.
As for the vegetarian cat diet, I never heard anything so stupid or cruel. It's just not reasonable. Cats eat meat. End of.
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