What to Feed the Cat

The pet food recall took another turn this week. First it was said to be rat poison causing the illness and deaths, now it is something with chemicals in plastic. Here is a list of foods NOT ON THE RECALL LIST that you can feed your little pet. (Whether she'll eat it is another problem, but at least for now these foods are considered not recalled.) Here is another helpful site that has questions and answers in plain language.

For now, I bought the Whiskas pouches and am sticking with Friskies in the can. Beef stuff is hard to find, and that is not sitting well with Sweet Pea.

Perhaps she preferred the baby rabbit whose headless body was on the doorstep awhile back. At least it didn't contain chemicals used in plastic.

Pet Food Scare... What is Next?

I took back the remainder of the Special Kitty Beef and Gravy packets to Walmart last week. Now we find out that rat poison from China is the cause of the deaths of dozens of unfortunate pets. It was chilling to me to listen to the report that the "cuts and gravy" types of pet food are sold under almost a hundred different brand names... with one source of possibly contaminated Wheat Gluten, suspected as the culprit.

I think of all the time I spend staring at the back of cereal box, mindlessly reading the ingredients, not knowing where they came from or how they were processed. I'm sure you have read it time and time again yourself. How big of a leap is it to think that a nation of cereal eaters could be targets next?

I'm in a rather somber mood this morning as Sweetie Pea and I eat breakfast.