Breaking Cat News by Georgia Dunn for May 07, 2015

Oh so true………………………….

All "fancy " cat food is formulated to appeal to the owner.To a cat, if it smells funky, it’s great!I love Lupin’s snarky comment in the 3rd panel and his eyes!And of course Elvis is finicky, we would expect nothing else!

I hope the cats don’t feed the baby with it!

I got a can of cat food that looked just like a human serving of chicken; the cats thought so too because all they did was lap up the sauce and left the shredded chicken to dry out.

I always quote this strip when my kitties are being too picky!

I can’t decide if Lupin is being sarcastic, or as the Man’s best friend, is he wistfully hinting that he actually pines for SpaghettiOs? I had a cat that went nuts for them. (not that she ever got any to speak of, but boy she was adament it was wonder food. We won’t speak of why I was eating ’em, lol.)

You have to be a cat person to really appreciate this strip. It is great. My 5 refuse to eat anything but Friskies Gravy Lovers can cat food. Chicken. Only Chicken. Cost a fortune to learn what they will eat. But once you have it figured out, there is very little waste.

I have to laugh when I see the pet food commercials that have all the “right” words…for humans. Dogs think roadkill is cool and cats eat what they kill. So they need “carefully formulated and balanced” food with veggies, berries and prime cuts? I have yet to see our dogs gleefully reaping the windfall from our mulberry tree or out grazing on blueberries.

And, in fairness to the Man, Spaghetti-Os is probably a personal favorite, so sharing with the boys is true love. And yes, Lupin is too cute in panel three.

Me too…..can I have a box of HAM too??I am willing to share the joy…..Mmmmmm….ham.

She should have gotten them something more familiar instead of Lobster-love the is quinoa french for traffic cone..

Oh my, laughed mightily at this strip especially Lupin in panel 3. I’ve spent a pretty penny recently trying to figure out what my 2 newly adopted furry kids like to eat. Not finding much of a pattern other than not expensive food or tuna…

I’ve never understood this idea that cats need vegetables. Cats don’t need vegetables. Dogs will eat veggies, no problem. Cats are OBLIGATE carnivores, and cannot digest vegetables. They don’t do well with carbs in general — I mean, there are carbs they will eat (I’ve seen them scarf spaghetti, too, although PLEASE don’t feed them anything with onion or garlic in it), but they don’t digest them well and they can’t get nutrition from them.

That’s why most commercial cat foods are supplemented six ways from Sunday, actually. There’s only a little real meat in those foods, and the rest is filler from grain — and the cats don’t digest the grains (their digestive tract is just wrong for it), so there’s a lot of supplementation with vitamins and amino acids that normally they would just get from a proper meat diet.

Seriously, if people want a pet that eats vegetables, get a dog or a rabbit.

Or, the tl;dr version:

Just feed your cats the ham. THAT they will love you for.

My cats love ham, too. They’re also hot and cold on Fancy Feast canned food. They love to get the kind with gravy and only lick up the gravy.

You may have made a mistake getting that for them. Now, they’ll want it everyday.

Years ago we took in and tamed a feral cat we called Gato Gris (grey cat). Even though we took her in when she was very young, she would absolutely eat anything, dry or wet, placed in her bowl. She never forgot her humble roots!

My guys only get Science Diet dry food and some treats. They turn up their nose at people food. Do you think they hate me or love me?

I was lucky, my two ate anything I put down for them, The only thing they didn’t like (and Max promptly barffed up) was freeze dried treats. But let me forget and leave something out to thaw……….I once came home to a 4 pound roast on the floor with gnaw marks all over it!Toshie was the Hunter, but not the Killer, we spent a lot of time trying to catch her latest conquest to put back outside.

Both our cats eat kibble, but one of them only eats the outside of each bit and leaves the rest behind. It mystified us until I bought Mary Roach’s “Gulp”. Apparently kibble (which was developed during WWII in response to meat rationing) as it comes out of the extruder has no taste whatever to a cat, so they spray it with pyrophosphates, which Roach characterizes as ‘crack for cats’. I guess most cats don’t eat as delicately as Maria…she sometimes even eats mice from the outside in instead of gulping them down in big chunks.

I Just love these cats!

Rikkie Tavi (1) There are some nutrients that cats need but that aren’t available in muscle meat. A lot of them are in the liver, and some in the predigested gut contents you refer to. Cats that don’t have adequate access to either will eat grass (and maybe catnip?) in an attempt to get those nutrients, but their digestive systems aren’t really up to the task of extracting them. (2) The reason mouse cat food never caught on is that, unfortunately, the vast majority of cat owners buy according to their ideas of what is edible instead of their cats’.

I saw a column online a while back about feline diets – the writer feeds her cats a mix of raw rabbit and half-cooked chicken….

Ever since this particular strip showed up on the actual BCN website, my wife and I have referred to bacon as “quinoa”. A quinoa, lettuce and tomato sandwich just sounds SO much healthier that way, doesn’t it? :D By the way, I LOVE Puck in this cartoon!

My cats have a different take of new food – eat it enthusiastically several times. Once you’re sure your servants have bought a generous amount of it, refuse to touch it. This behavior will keep the ‘people’ on their toes and trying harder.

My cats will eat kibble but not canned food. A couple of them have sensitive stomachs and do very well on Beyond dry cat food. They are not picky eaters at all. Two of them were feral, one was dropped off and my fourth I got 15 years ago as a tiny kitten.

I like Puck’s thinking. Ham is awesome.

My “Olivia” was a stray kitten, born under my cottage. Her mother disappeared when she was about 6 weeks old, probably taken by coyotes. She was the only one of the litter who came out from under the cottage, the rest were too timid. She was lured out with a hot dog, and must have been very hungry – she nearly took my fingers off trying to get it. Her litter mates made do with the food I provided under the cottage for a few weeks, and eventually they all disappeared. She was the only one of the litter that survived, all because she was so bold. Anyway, I bring this up because back then she would eat anything even remotely considered food. Now, a few years later, she has turned into a proper little queen and will only eat certain dry foods. She’d starve to death before she’d eat another of those hot dogs that saved her life, that she loved so much!

My guess is that the Man sometimes gives the boys some Spaghetti-Os, and they love them. Since Spaghetti-Os do not taste like ground up coconut matting, they can’t be healthy, and so the Woman is horrified at such an unhealthy diet.

A cat I had many years ago insisted on having some of my breakfast porridge. My current cat likes to have a scrap of pancake in the morning. No syrup.

Fido (over there<<<) and O’Malley stick with dry — but it took us a while to figure out that SALMON is a barf-trigger. We’ve served wet once in while but it usually just sits.Of course, this means some extra dental hygiene at the vets (but we don’t tell them that…)

So true. Ever see a wild cat go out and catch a lobster and quinoa?

The magic food for Onyx was Friskies’ Savory Shreds. She loved all of them.

Mine gets one or two brands of grain-free dry food, and only eats a little of the grain-free canned food. I found some more expensive food on sale, and he just looked at me like “You expect me to EAT that???” So we stick with our trusty brands, and keep a little pot of cat grass around. We keep people food to a minimum, even though the smell of barbecue sauce drives him crazy!

i don’t and will never have a cat and i understand the strip

lol he wants a box of ham

There is definitely an inverse correlation between item cost and feline interest.

Elvis’s reaction to the lobster is hilarious. They do look like sea spiders, don’t they Elvis!

Box of ham :)