Re: Looking for a good canned food

2007-03-26 Thread wendy
--point. -Original Message- *From:* [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] *On Behalf Of *TenHouseCats *Sent:* Saturday, March 24, 2007 11:54 AM *To:* felvtalk@felineleukemia.org *Subject:* Re: Looking for a good canned food i'm kind

Re: Looking for a good canned food

2007-03-26 Thread wendy
My thought on all of this was, how do we know this wasn't a 'dry run' for terrorists? How do we know that they aren't testing the waters to find through which company and in what way they can inflict the most damage through our food supply? Me paranoid? No way. ;) :) Wendy --- TenHouseCats

Re: Looking for a good canned food

2007-03-26 Thread Del H. Daniels
Sadly you are realistic. - Original Message - From: wendy [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: felvtalk@felineleukemia.org Sent: Monday, March 26, 2007 11:02 AM Subject: Re: Looking for a good canned food My thought on all of this was, how do we know this wasn't a 'dry run' for terrorists? How do

Re: Looking for a good canned food

2007-03-24 Thread Gina WN
LOL My Pippin used to try to bury the Innova wet food! [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Try Shredded Friskies...Turkey and Cheese, Salmon and Cheese. My cats devour this stuff and will begged for it. Friskies Prime Fillets Fancy Feast Medley Whiskas Buy a can of each so you

Re: Looking for a good canned food

2007-03-24 Thread elizabeth trent
LOL how funny! i got some for my cats and they wouldn't touch the stuff :-/ elizabeth On 3/24/07, Gina WN [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: LOL My Pippin used to try to bury the Innova wet food! [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: *Try Shredded Friskies...Turkey and Cheese, Salmon and Cheese. * *My cats

Re: Looking for a good canned food

2007-03-24 Thread Susan Hoffman
I have one who will ONLY eat the Friskies shredded cheese and turkey in gravy. And the turkey prime fillets is the preferred cat food of my pickiest eater. From what I can determine, Friskies and Fancy Feast are not manufactured by Menu Foods. I would like to know everything that has

Re: Looking for a good canned food

2007-03-24 Thread TenHouseCats
i'm kind of surprised that whiskas--9 lives--friskies aren't advertising like crazy right now. makes me really worry that they know something we don't--like that their products might show up on the list one of these days. On 3/24/07, Susan Hoffman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have one who

RE: Looking for a good canned food

2007-03-24 Thread MacKenzie, Kerry N.
That is a very good--and scary--point. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of TenHouseCats Sent: Saturday, March 24, 2007 11:54 AM To: felvtalk@felineleukemia.org Subject: Re: Looking for a good canned food i'm kind of surprised that whiskas--9

Re: Looking for a good canned food

2007-03-24 Thread PEC2851
In a message dated 3/24/07 1:04:23 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: That is a very good--and scary--point Yes, I was also thinking [See? Sometimes my brain DOES work!!!] the same thingabout Friskies Fancy Feast. Wonder if we'll ever know the truth...

RE: Looking for a good canned food

2007-03-24 Thread Susan Hoffman
] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of TenHouseCats Sent: Saturday, March 24, 2007 11:54 AM To: felvtalk@felineleukemia.org Subject: Re: Looking for a good canned food i'm kind of surprised that whiskas--9 lives--friskies aren't advertising like crazy right now. makes me really worry that they know

Re: Looking for a good canned food

2007-03-24 Thread elizabeth trent
PROTECTED] *On Behalf Of *TenHouseCats *Sent:* Saturday, March 24, 2007 11:54 AM *To:* felvtalk@felineleukemia.org *Subject:* Re: Looking for a good canned food i'm kind of surprised that whiskas--9 lives--friskies aren't advertising like crazy right now. makes me really worry that they know

Re: Looking for a good canned food

2007-03-24 Thread TenHouseCats
PROTECTED] wrote: That is a very good--and scary--point. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of TenHouseCats Sent: Saturday, March 24, 2007 11:54 AM To: felvtalk@felineleukemia.org Subject: Re: Looking for a good canned food i'm kind

Re: Looking for a good canned food

2007-03-24 Thread Nina
I hear you. Has Menu foods even acknowledged that there was rat poison in the wheat they bought from China? I haven't seen it yet if they have. It hasn't stopped me from checking all labels for wheat gluten though. N Susan Hoffman wrote: This is the line that troubles me -- effected by the

Re: Looking for a good canned food

2007-03-24 Thread TenHouseCats
doesn't all wheat have gluten? isn't that why people with celiac disease can't eat products with wheat? (and so what, if the same equipment was used to process the stuff with rice or something else. i don't think that rat poison cares what it clings to.) what are SAFE sources of protein in

Re: Looking for a good canned food

2007-03-24 Thread Nina
Perhaps all wheat has gluten, but I highly doubt it all comes from the same source in China. I don't know. Now I have to go find my glasses and check the label on my Roman Meal bread! Could it be possible that Menu Foods also produces processed foods for people too? Or that they are not

Re: Looking for a good canned food

2007-03-24 Thread TenHouseCats
no, not that we can't be safe from all hazards, but that we're really fooling ourselves if we think that our food sources have been safe for a long time. we've all heard about SPORADIC outbreaks of e-coli, salmonella, etc etc and seen videos of horrible things happening at slaughterhouses,

Re: Looking for a good canned food

2007-03-24 Thread Tad Burnett
If you go to Purina's web page they have a whole special page about how their foods are safe Tad TenHouseCats wrote: i'm kind of surprised that whiskas--9 lives--friskies aren't advertising like crazy right now. makes me really worry that they know something we don't--like that their

Re: Looking for a good canned food

2007-03-24 Thread Nina
I can't believe you got a giggle out of me after all that. Nina TenHouseCats wrote: no, not that we can't be safe from all hazards, but that we're really fooling ourselves if we think that our food sources have been safe for a long time. we've all heard about SPORADIC outbreaks of e-coli,

Re: Looking for a good canned food

2007-03-24 Thread Kelly L
At 01:08 PM 3/24/2007, you wrote: Boy do I agree.those were the days when the dogs ate table scraps and SKIPPY and lived long healthy lives. Organic does not mean much as far as safety, You may avoid pesticides, but the you risk mold , so of which are more deadly, Kelly lane If

Re: Looking for a good canned food

2007-03-24 Thread TenHouseCats
so maybe the point is, we do the best we can with the information we have at the moment and hold onto our cats and one another for dear life. -- Spay Neuter Your Neighbors! Maybe That'll Make The Difference MaryChristine AIM / YAHOO: TenHouseCats MSN: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ:

Re: Looking for a good canned food

2007-03-24 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Basically, if you don't raise it or farm it yourself, there's no guarantees. Even then, accidents happen occasionally. Phaewryn http://ucat.us/domesticcatlinks.html Special Needs Cat Resources what are SAFE sources of protein in this world anymore, anyway? for humans OR critters? i just cannot

Re: Looking for a good canned food

2007-03-24 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
My ex-step-dad's father would spend an hour after every grocery shopping trip WASHING everything he bought before putting it in his refrigerator or pantry: gallons of milk, blocks of cheese, jars of condiments, canned food, all washed with hot soapy water, if the label fell off, he would use a

Re: Looking for a good canned food

2007-03-24 Thread Kelly L
At 03:14 PM 3/24/2007, you wrote: We all have out compulsions, Me I eat fruit and vegetables without even washing it,,Most germs are on your hand, And as I mentioned i will not ever eat home canned products, Botulism is so lethal, Anyway,, I never get sick either, We have no way of

Re: Looking for a good canned food

2007-03-21 Thread Susan Hoffman
While it may be largely a matter of personal taste, I've had a couple of very finicky eaters who wanted to subsist on Friskies turkey prime fillets. Also, Marie, the ultimate finicky eater, can tell the difference between Friskies regular chicken in gravy and the senior formula/special diet

Re: Looking for a good canned food

2007-03-21 Thread Linda Johnson
I have a dry food addict who became ill a couple of months ago with a severe liver infection and lost a lot of weight. I tried to get Boo to eat everything, but he had absolutely no interest in any food (except meat baby food) until I tried the new Fancy Feast elegant medleys. He just gobbles

Re: Looking for a good canned food

2007-03-21 Thread Debbie
locally in Ohio. Debbie http://wwwlovepoetry.blogspot.com/ -Original Message- From: Susan Hoffman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>Sent: Mar 21, 2007 9:43 AM To: felvtalk@felineleukemia.org Subject: Re: Looking for a good canned food While it may be largely a matter of personal taste, I've had a

Re: Looking for a good canned food

2007-03-21 Thread Kelley Saveika
in Ohio. Debbie http://wwwlovepoetry.blogspot.com/ -Original Message- From: Susan Hoffman Sent: Mar 21, 2007 9:43 AM To: felvtalk@felineleukemia.org Subject: Re: Looking for a good canned food While it may be largely a matter of personal taste, I've had a couple of very finicky eaters

Re: Looking for a good canned food

2007-03-21 Thread PEC2851
Debbie- Well I guess it really depends on our fur babies. And believe me, I have a ungiue crew, and that's putting it mildly... Some will eat just about anything, but I'll focus on my persnickety babies... My Puma (ancient, ill w/ kitty alzheimers [EXCEPT when it comes to food] )

Re: Looking for a good canned food

2007-03-21 Thread JENI RECA
it so much. Good luck Jeni Hillman Waller, Nookie the feral and Cree From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: felvtalk@felineleukemia.org To: felvtalk@felineleukemia.org Subject: Re: Looking for a good canned food Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2007 10:52:35 EDT Debbie- Well I guess it really depends on our fur

Re: Looking for a good canned food - OOPS!!!

2007-03-21 Thread PEC2851
Debbie, Sorry, I just read about the episode w/ the Salmon Ocean Whitefish...Guess I wasn't too much help. But, since you want Cassie eating something other than dry only, have you tried baby food [meat]? Always works for me. Especially when Puma was so sick just diagnosed, he was a

Re: Looking for a good canned food

2007-03-21 Thread TatorBunz
Try Shredded Friskies...Turkey and Cheese, Salmon and Cheese. My cats devour this stuff and will begged for it. Friskies Prime Fillets Fancy Feast Medley Whiskas Buy a can of each so you can get an idea what the kitty will eat. I have bought the expensive food in the past and it was a waste

Re: Looking for a good canned food

2007-03-21 Thread PEC2851
In a message dated 3/21/07 10:57:52 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: sheba snack cans, they aren't the full meal cans but little snacking wet food, expensive, but worth it when the cats love it so much. Good luck Jeni- THANK YOU Your post stirred a

Re: Looking for a good canned food

2007-03-21 Thread PEC2851
In a message dated 3/21/07 11:08:41 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Whiskas Terrie, See? You also helped me. I also forgot about Whiskas Hugs, Patti her [soon to get their previous wet food!!] gang ** AOL now

Re: Looking for a good canned food/other things too

2007-03-21 Thread TatorBunz
Well, with what's been going on with my life things have been very hectic and finances being a strain/stressful. I'm surprised I remember that too...lmao I haven't replied back to anyone but feel bad for those that have lost their furbabies to this horrible disease and other illnesses.

Re: Looking for a good canned food/other things too

2007-03-21 Thread TenHouseCats
i think that we exist in one another's lives to spark those brain-cells that are dimming in ALL of us--and most of us have no real excuse for the random-accessibility of our memories. we each hold different pieces of the puzzle, and until we sit down and compare edges, things just don't fit

Re: Looking for a good canned food

2007-03-21 Thread PEC2851
In a message dated 3/21/07 10:28:59 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: but worth it if you need your kitty to eat. Yes, indeed Looks like the Fancy Feast Elegant entrees is really getting our furbabies to eat.. Patti her gang

Re: Looking for a good canned food

2007-03-21 Thread Nina
I too have a house full of finicky eaters that won't touch anything that's priced above a $1 a can. It's very frustrating trying to convince them that it's good for them and that mommy is sick of purchasing expensive canned cat food to feed to the dogs. They all love the Innova Evo dry, and

Re: Looking for a good canned food

2007-03-21 Thread Pam Norman
@felineleukemia.org mailto:felvtalk@felineleukemia.org Subject: Re: Looking for a good canned food While it may be largely a matter of personal taste, I've had a couple of very finicky eaters who wanted to subsist on Friskies turkey prime fillets. Also, Marie

Re: Looking for a good canned food

2007-03-21 Thread elizabeth trent
Fancy Feast is always a big hit here. When they are sick they seem to prefer the ones that are just the regular pate (not minced, grilled, or marinated - those they just eat the gravy). Otherwise, the 'Sardines, Shrimp and Crab in aspic' (orange label) is the hands down favorite. The new fancy

Re: Looking for a good canned food

2007-03-21 Thread wendy
I ditto this; mine LOVE the stuff! :) Wendy --- Linda Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a dry food addict who became ill a couple of months ago with a severe liver infection and lost a lot of weight. I tried to get Boo to eat everything, but he had absolutely no interest in any food