Alpo Posted July 18, 2022 Share Posted July 18, 2022 I don't own a cat. NoKNOW next to nothing about cats. Story. They have gone to his house, and he is taking a shower while she is going to feed the cat. >I hear the shower stop, so I raise my voice. “Cat food! You’re starving your kitty.” “Tall cabinet. Middle shelf. Make sure it’s cat food. I don’t want to feed him tuna!” “Got it,” I replied. “Finish your ablutions!”< Is there any particular reason why you should not feed your cat Starkist instead of Fancy Feast? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rip Snorter Posted July 18, 2022 Share Posted July 18, 2022 Cost, and probably not all the nutrients needed are present. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marshal Mo Hare, SASS #45984 Posted July 18, 2022 Share Posted July 18, 2022 Don’t want to get the picky, finicky little taste buds hooked on the good stuff. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rip Snorter Posted July 18, 2022 Share Posted July 18, 2022 When I had cats, I would cook up some of the trash fish I caught as a treat for them. They loved it, but they also had commercial dry and canned food which filled in the blanks nutritionally. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bgavin Posted July 18, 2022 Share Posted July 18, 2022 Mercury in the tuna. Same reason why humans are advised no more than 1x weekly. I pay $0.74 for a can of Fancy Feast. Tuna is more $$. Cat snubs FF all too often... would torque me off if he was snubbing real tuna. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TN Mongo, SASS #61450 Posted July 18, 2022 Share Posted July 18, 2022 Tuna is like crack cocaine for cats, but it lacks all the nutrition they need. When I make tuna salad for the wife, I have to give our little monsters a little tuna - they demand it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phantom Falcon, SASS # 46139 Posted July 18, 2022 Share Posted July 18, 2022 3 hours ago, bgavin said: Mercury in the tuna. Same reason why humans are advised no more than 1x weekly. I pay $0.74 for a can of Fancy Feast. Tuna is more $$. Cat snubs FF all too often... would torque me off if he was snubbing real tuna. I don't eat tuna at all so I guess I'm safe. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michigan Slim Posted July 18, 2022 Share Posted July 18, 2022 I thought you were going to ask for recipes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rip Snorter Posted July 18, 2022 Share Posted July 18, 2022 Would those be in a Korean Cookbook? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Irish Pat Posted July 18, 2022 Share Posted July 18, 2022 for cat or tuna? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Finagler 6853 Life Posted July 19, 2022 Share Posted July 19, 2022 Well you know why so many people don't like cats? They don't know how to cook them. (I'm sorry Miss Allie) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Still hand Bill Posted July 19, 2022 Share Posted July 19, 2022 Difference between cats and dogs. Dog, hide pills in food, gets eaten. Cat, hide pill in tuna, cat never touches tuna again. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dirty Dan Dawkins Posted July 19, 2022 Share Posted July 19, 2022 I have a big yellow CAT that’s very expensive to feed. And when it gets “sick” boy that’s really expensive. I thinks it’s $3000-5000 just to pull in the parking lot. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Trigger Mike Posted July 19, 2022 Share Posted July 19, 2022 When I make tuna sandwiches I give my cats the water out of the can. No way I'm giving them tuna. Cans ate smaller now and it takes a large can to partially feed my children Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hardpan Curmudgeon SASS #8967 Posted July 19, 2022 Share Posted July 19, 2022 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LawMan Mark, SASS #57095L Posted July 19, 2022 Share Posted July 19, 2022 I love cats...but it's hard to eat a whole one at one sitting. The way my two kitties eat, I'd have to get a third job to afford all the tuna they could eat. They get a little nibble from the wife when she eats some. I personally don't eat tuna, mostly because it was the staple, every day meal fixed by my mother during my early childhood. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alpo Posted July 19, 2022 Author Share Posted July 19, 2022 Actually, I suppose, a better question is why does he keep the cat food and the people food on the same shelf in the pantry? The dog food is nowhere near where my food is. Not because I'm afraid of eating her food by mistake. It's just - like I don't keep the ammunition next to the toilet paper. I keep the dog food with the dog food and the ammunition with the ammunition and the toilet paper with the toilet paper and the people food with the people food. Reckon I've got OCD? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rye Miles #13621 Posted July 19, 2022 Share Posted July 19, 2022 I had two cats for 20 years ( one was 19 and the other 20 when they died) I would feed them Starkist tuna for a treat once in a while. They loved it but it didn't stop them from eating the cat tuna. For me it was mainly cost. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bgavin Posted July 19, 2022 Share Posted July 19, 2022 1 hour ago, Alpo said: Reckon I've got OCD? Nope. Just more storage space... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chickasaw Bill SASS #70001 Posted July 19, 2022 Share Posted July 19, 2022 cats is gonna do what cats is gonna do CB Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sedalia Dave Posted July 20, 2022 Share Posted July 20, 2022 13 hours ago, Alpo said: Reckon I've got OCD? Obsessive Curiosity Disorder Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dusty Devil Dale Posted July 20, 2022 Share Posted July 20, 2022 Having caught a lot of tuna and delivered them to different cannaries for packing (actually swapping for previously canned product), I've seen first hand the difference between what goes into the Starkist or Chicken of the Sea cans and what is carted across the street to the pet food cannary. The cat food tuna at modern cannaries is really not too bad. They used to utilize offalls and rejected/tainted tuna that did not receive proper refrigeration on the catch boats. But today all of the offalls are used for livestock protein supplementation, and virtually all of the commercial and sport catch boats are well equipped with fast Nitrogen freezing equipment, so tainted tuna don't really show up in the catch now, except from an occasional private sport vessel. Today most of the pet food cannaries use mostly the discarded oily belly meat and thick red lateral muscle tissue off of the tuna (non- palatable to humans), plus any strong tasting Skipjack Tuna that show up in the delivered catch. People wouldn't find those products very palatable, but most cats will eat them --at least occasionally. The cannary tours are really pretty interesting (but less than fragrant). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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