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Forum » Topic: Cat’s life in balance as resistance develops to latest cat food http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=36164 The NewsBiscuit Community en-US Sat, 18 May 2013 14:29:44 +0000 http://bbpress.org/?v=1.0.2 <![CDATA[Search]]> q http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/search.php beau-jolly on "Cat’s life in balance as resistance develops to latest cat food" http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=36164#post-101912 Mon, 19 Dec 2011 14:50:35 +0000 beau-jolly 101912@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ We're having the cat put down today. Not much wrong with him but he is 22 which is quite old enough and to be honest I hadn't budgetted to have to feed the smelly rat bag for quite so long. We used to have a cat who ate the cheapest old shite. That is because I refused to buy anything else. If he didn't eat it it he could either starve or go and kill something. It worked for the kids so why not the cat? On a similar note. Why is it that cats will spend all day outside only returnig breifly to fill the litter tray? Stan Laurel on "Cat’s life in balance as resistance develops to latest cat food" http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=36164#post-101888 Mon, 19 Dec 2011 12:45:49 +0000 Stan Laurel 101888@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ The cat's bollox! Fine LA, Des. rickwestwell on "Cat’s life in balance as resistance develops to latest cat food" http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=36164#post-101781 Mon, 19 Dec 2011 03:04:25 +0000 rickwestwell 101781@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ I loved this before it was an FP too, honest. Great stuff Des. Textbook on "Cat’s life in balance as resistance develops to latest cat food" http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=36164#post-101779 Mon, 19 Dec 2011 02:34:17 +0000 Textbook 101779@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ Good one :) Sinnick on "Cat’s life in balance as resistance develops to latest cat food" http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=36164#post-101636 Sat, 17 Dec 2011 17:27:43 +0000 Sinnick 101636@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ malgor, perhaps this is an acceptable alternative for the hunts. Paint a cat red-brown and release it in the wild. Could also do this for farmers hoping to shoot badgers. Cans of white and black paint applied to a moggie, release it in a wood near a cowfield ... Even better, paint the farmer himself. Conservationists would support this. Des Custard on "Cat’s life in balance as resistance develops to latest cat food" http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=36164#post-101613 Sat, 17 Dec 2011 12:46:20 +0000 Des Custard 101613@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ Oddly enough, we had a cat when I was a kid that came back from a cattery refusing Whiskas, wanting only the cheapest food with water to drink. I reckon they half starved them so they thought the food when it came was the best ever. Another cat came back from the cattery with leukaemia, in the days before you could vaccinate against the virus that triggers it. Al OPecia on "Cat’s life in balance as resistance develops to latest cat food" http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=36164#post-101601 Sat, 17 Dec 2011 09:58:38 +0000 Al OPecia 101601@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ Tee hee. 5. malgor on "Cat’s life in balance as resistance develops to latest cat food" http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=36164#post-101551 Fri, 16 Dec 2011 22:32:03 +0000 malgor 101551@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ Just for balance, <a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-york-north-yorkshire-16214747">this is how we do things round our way.</a> kga6 on "Cat’s life in balance as resistance develops to latest cat food" http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=36164#post-101550 Fri, 16 Dec 2011 22:28:57 +0000 kga6 101550@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ My cat is manageable. She eats wet food in winter and biscuits in the summer. Rum tum tuggers the lot of them. Iscariot on "Cat’s life in balance as resistance develops to latest cat food" http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=36164#post-101546 Fri, 16 Dec 2011 21:51:12 +0000 Iscariot 101546@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ Cat's life in the balance? Wasn't that posited by Erwin Schrodinger? Years ago I "adopted" an abandoned feral kitten who would not even eat tinned Whiskas, but day old burgers were a treat. As he grew he brought me presents - a kitchen full of feathers with only the skull, beak and claws remaining was a regular one. And once, half a raw mackerel, but as we lived far from the sea, he must have stolen it from someone's kitchen, eaten half of it and brought the rest home. I digress, your tale is apocryphal, Des. One of my current neighbours has such a cat. They invariably have dayglo collars with those little metal tube things with the phone number of the owner finely rolled up inside. You try asking a strange cat if you can mess with its collar... Some of them asterisk thingys for your observations. ***** Perks on "Cat’s life in balance as resistance develops to latest cat food" http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=36164#post-101540 Fri, 16 Dec 2011 20:22:36 +0000 Perks 101540@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ Nice. Stars The All New Jeni B on "Cat’s life in balance as resistance develops to latest cat food" http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=36164#post-101530 Fri, 16 Dec 2011 19:49:58 +0000 The All New Jeni B 101530@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ Wonderful. What is it with cats? I had one who quite happily scoffed cheap food right up until he spent a fortnight in a Cattery. That was the beginning of his spiral into fussiness, sadly culminating in scrambled eggs of a side-plate. Des Custard on "Cat’s life in balance as resistance develops to latest cat food" http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=36164#post-101528 Fri, 16 Dec 2011 19:44:11 +0000 Des Custard 101528@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ The life of Tibby, 7, from Carshalton, hangs in the balance today after she developed resistance to the latest, most powerful cat food last weekend. For months she had been kept alive by one particular brand of luxury salmon-flavoured gunge pieces in jelly from foil pouches, but when on that fateful Sunday morning she turned her nose up at even this concoction, her tearful owners had nowhere left to go. Tibby is in intensive care on a feline drip, but the minute she recovers any strength she attacks the tube with her teeth, wrestles it from her arm and tangles herself up in it, hastening her demise. Today almost all cats are resistant to cat food in one or more of its forms, and Tibby’s story is disturbingly commonplace. The accidental discovery of canned cat food by research chemists in the 1930s ushered in a new era of well-fed cats for whom the only defence against starvation had previously been condescending to accept scraps of human food or disturbing their sleep for hours at a time to catch mice. Indiscriminate cat food use soon led to acquired resistance and the need for ever-improved flavours and textures. R&D departments vied with one another to patent new blockbusters. Container solutions escalated from cans to foil trays and pouches. A proliferation of variants based on fish, meat, in jelly or gravy, and a whole parallel universe of dried food, flooded an unregulated market. Campaigners failed to prevent the spread to third world countries where owners would starve so they could buy expensive cat food. Unrepentant sales executives said it was more than food, it was a lifestyle experience that people had the right to choose for their cats, but uncontrolled use led to candemics. Experts recommend a strict protocol, starting on supermarket own brands and only graduating to stronger ranges as resistance develops. With sparing use, the available range of foods will cover any cat’s natural lifespan. But unscrupulous manufacturers get them young. Owners of kittens as young as six weeks approach suppliers when their cat seems a bit picky and insist on a pouch. Once kittens eat specialist gourmet food, they can progress to food for senior cats before the age of one, with catastrophic results. Scientists say fears that the malaise could cross the species barrier to humans are unfounded. They have yet to encounter a human who could resist chips, even when fruit and vegetable intolerance is complete.