My Project: 365 Creative Writing Prompts
Day 90: Cat food – What do you feed your cat?
A trip to the vet recently revealed that Holly has a food allergy and we had to switch her (and the rest of the gang) to a higher quality food. I took home some cans from the clinic and hoped for the best.
If you think Holly and the others were grateful for this better quality food, think again, they approached the plate, took a whiff and walked away.
Introduce the new food gradually, someone said. So I did. I mixed a quarter of the vet food with a can of the old food. And would you believe it … Charlotte, Gabriel, and Holly ate everything except the vet food. (Halley is still on kitten food, so she was unaffected by the change).
My guess was that they didn’t like the vet’s food, so I took a trip to the pet store and bought a variety of quality foods. I walked out with a bill of over $50. As I tried this food and that food, it quickly became clear which brands and flavors they preferred.
Then this week I received an email containing a link to a website destroying my newfound peace of mind. Three of the flavors my cats like were classified as undesirable food for cats. https://www.reviews.com/cat-food/
I took a closer look at the brands they recommended. All links directed me to Amazon:
Addiction Grain-Free Canned Cat Food
$372.81
Blackwood Chicken Meal and Field Pea Recipe Grain-Free Dry Cat Food
This link directed me to dog treats.
Earthborn Holistic Wild Sea Catch Grain-Free Natural Dry Cat & Kitten Food
$104.48 for a 14 lbs bag.
Fromm Gold Holistic Adult Dry Cat Food
$162.01 for a 5 lbs bag.
Lotus Just Juicy Pork Stew Grain Free Canned Cat Food
$157 (Two customers who ordered online were under the impression they were going to receive a case of 24 cans but received only 1 can)
Now Fresh Grain Free Adult Recipe Dry Cat Food
$208 for an 8 lbs bag.
Redbarn Naturals Salmon and Delilah Grain-Free Canned Cat Food
$160 for a 5 lbs bag.
ZiwiPeak Daily-Cat Cuisine Venison and Fish Canned Cat Food
$56.72
These prices are just ridiculous!!!
While I believe in feeding my cats good food, I should mention that I’ve had cats all my life and they never had anything other than regular cat food bought in a supermarket. All of them lived around 13 years with the exception of Mickey (who died aged 10 from congestive heart failure) and Fluffy who lived to be 20 (and died of … old age I guess).
At one point the website https://www.reviews.com/cat-food/ states “Exposing your cat to these ingredients — even in small doses — is not worth the risk, especially when there are so many healthy cat food alternatives without them.”
Very true, now all it takes is to tell the manufacturers of those healthy foods to lower their prices!
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