Arlo and Janis by Jimmy Johnson for January 13, 2018

Finicky brat!

Luddy would rather have the diced rat.

Just feed it to the possum.

That’s the problem when you are used to junk food. Real good food tastes blah. No sugary fat taste to drown the rest.

We got our dogs treats ,but with no artificial color or flavoring. They won’t eat it. We are back to the fake bacon they’ll eat.

What is a “meat by-product” anyway?

I got my cats a can of tuna yesterday. no .turned up noses. It was “more daddy”

I’ve bought mine ground turkey and chicken, cooked it just until not pink, carefully set it out in little ceramic dishes (they refuse food out of plastic) just to watch them look at me like I’m Lucrezia Borgia. Meanwhile, the rest of my family (dogs and humans) circled the bowls like sad hungry sharks. Sigh….

Mine has me trained to buy one particular brand. I tried the gourmet types, and different brands on sale. No dice.

When you have more than one cat, you never have picky eaters. (This is also true of dogs, BTW.)

This is an incredibly wealthy country – we can actually afford to have pets and to give them “gourmet” food. I’m extremely lucky to live in this time and place! (And I am not joking at all or being sarcastic in the slightest.)

I tried that all natural-all meat crunchy food that supposedly also had no preservatives and/or dyes (something like that, can’t remember exactly) and my cats wanted NOTHING to do with it. They smelled it and refused to eat. 2 days later the cats hadn’t eaten it and were starving. They would rather starve than eat it so I had to go out to buy their usual “Meow Mix” style food.

While we were dating my wife brought a box of ALL-NATURAL peanut butter dog treats to my place. My dogs wouldn’t touch them, so I put them out for the wild critters (lived way out in the country)… a month later, they were untouched.

When you find something your cat will eat, never change, Your cat will make you pay. They’ll either shun you ‘til you bring them they’re old food or barf it in your shoe.

This is the weekly “cat strip.” But kudos to Greg for yesterday. What a great ending to the grocery shopping gag!

Okay, slightly off subject. Since they stopped making D-Con in natural grain, I can’t get the mice to eat any of the artificial blocks or pellets of stuff they sell now. Does anyone know of a mouse poison they will eat?

Tyge: After reading your praise for Greg, I looked for his comment yesterday. I can’t find it. Is it there, and I am missing it?

We have three, & they will only eat pate. The chunky stuff with gravy-they lick off the gravy & will not touch the food after that. These cold mornings I heat up the food in the microwave for a few seconds until the chill is off. They love people tuna packed in H2o, & I have tried every variety of health, natural no-grain kitty foods & they just take a couple of bites & then turn their little noses up & refuse to eat it. Purina Friskies beats out every other brand. And generic? Ha! They will not even touch it. They smell it, give me the evil eye, & walk away! Junk food kitties!

right?

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