The evils of dog food
Mar. 19th, 2007 02:59 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
trystinnSo today, I've gotten no less than a dozen phone calls, emails and text messages regarding the pet food recall. More or less, they follow this pattern:
Them: OMG-WTF-BBQ! Seriously, are your dogs ok?
Tris: uhm, yeah. At last count, anyway. There's just so gosh darned many of them, we have to take inventory every so often. Twice a day, morning and evening. As of this morning, they were all fine. Its a few hours until the evening inventory, anything could happen. Just the other day, someone threw another dog over the fence and I didn't notice until I tucked him into bed that night. I named him after you. He has your eyes.
Them: But YOUR DOGS! What do you feed them?
Tris: Nutro, mostly. The occasional missionary, door to door salemen, etc. Standard stuff.
Them: OMG, NUTRO IS EVIL. ITS BEEN RECALLED! Your DOGS COULD DIE!
Tris: Wait, no. Read the warnings, they don't include dry kibble. We only feed kibble to our dogs, no canned or wet food. (Except wet missionaries, it rains here. A lot)
Them: ITS ALL NUTRO, ALL THE TIME. PURE EVIL. What do your rabbits eat?
Tris: Despite what you may have learned watching Monty Python, our rabbits are pretty strict vegetarians and rarely eat the occasional Crusader.
Them: You should take all your pets to the vet to have them checked, just in case.
Tris: *sigh* Thanks for the info. I'll put the dogs on a strict door to door salesmen diet until this scourge of modern society has been dealt with.
I cannot imagine what poor![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
gentledaddy must be putting up with!
Them: OMG-WTF-BBQ! Seriously, are your dogs ok?
Tris: uhm, yeah. At last count, anyway. There's just so gosh darned many of them, we have to take inventory every so often. Twice a day, morning and evening. As of this morning, they were all fine. Its a few hours until the evening inventory, anything could happen. Just the other day, someone threw another dog over the fence and I didn't notice until I tucked him into bed that night. I named him after you. He has your eyes.
Them: But YOUR DOGS! What do you feed them?
Tris: Nutro, mostly. The occasional missionary, door to door salemen, etc. Standard stuff.
Them: OMG, NUTRO IS EVIL. ITS BEEN RECALLED! Your DOGS COULD DIE!
Tris: Wait, no. Read the warnings, they don't include dry kibble. We only feed kibble to our dogs, no canned or wet food. (Except wet missionaries, it rains here. A lot)
Them: ITS ALL NUTRO, ALL THE TIME. PURE EVIL. What do your rabbits eat?
Tris: Despite what you may have learned watching Monty Python, our rabbits are pretty strict vegetarians and rarely eat the occasional Crusader.
Them: You should take all your pets to the vet to have them checked, just in case.
Tris: *sigh* Thanks for the info. I'll put the dogs on a strict door to door salesmen diet until this scourge of modern society has been dealt with.
I cannot imagine what poor
gentledaddy must be putting up with!
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Date: 2007-03-19 10:19 pm (UTC)Sigh.
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Date: 2007-03-19 10:21 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-03-19 10:30 pm (UTC)ZOMG!!!!BBQ!!!! If you forward this email all over the fucking world, Bill Gates will (name a star after you|buy children from 3rd world countries|install Linux)!
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Date: 2007-03-19 10:56 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-03-19 10:19 pm (UTC)Wherever you may be
Take this dog in my hands
far away from me :)
(one has to play a little to make it scan)
You could always add in a diet of scaredy people but the sour taste may annoy the dogs.
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Date: 2007-03-19 10:22 pm (UTC)They like the smell of fear. *WEG*
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Date: 2007-03-19 10:21 pm (UTC)Of course, it would probably give them indigestion.
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Date: 2007-03-19 10:25 pm (UTC)March: OMG peanuts ARE EVIL, pure fat.
April: Wait no. Peanuts are good for your heart.
May: OMG peanuts are heart healthy. Have some!
June: WTF! Children dying of peanut allergies, peanuts on boyfriend's lips, in factories. Ban peanuts from the planet earth! Won't someone please think of the children!
July: No, really, quite heart healthy. Eat a serving every day.
*sigh*
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Date: 2007-03-19 10:26 pm (UTC)People have been threatening to riot because OMGWTF YOUR ANIMALS ARE GOING TO DIE!!
*rolls eyes*
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Date: 2007-03-19 10:27 pm (UTC)*pity pat* /hands Guinness
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Date: 2007-03-19 10:42 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-03-19 10:37 pm (UTC)Sorry to hear that you wound up with an additional dog, darn those puppy-throwers all to gosh-heck! Maybe a taller fence? With a moat? Alligators? Lake Trolls?
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Date: 2007-03-19 10:57 pm (UTC)Extra dog? Err, nope, that was a joke. Sorry if it wasn't clear, H.
Four dogs. That's it.
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Date: 2007-03-19 11:24 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-03-19 11:34 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-03-19 11:24 pm (UTC)Can I get one at Tarjay I wonder? No wait, probably Wally World.
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Date: 2007-03-19 11:34 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-03-20 12:46 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-03-20 12:59 am (UTC)I mean, this ain't your average fish tank.
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Date: 2007-03-19 10:53 pm (UTC)I am quite pleased to say my cats eat cheap Nine Lives canned for treats, and Meow Mix dry daily, and if they have been good and I am in the mood to share, they also get teh occasional can of tuna in oil.
And of course the occasional door to door salesman.
My 16 year old cat who is perfect weight and very healthy, is quite pleased with her diet of cheap cat food.
Ooops...scuse me I have to go clean up a hairball.
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Date: 2007-03-19 11:01 pm (UTC)Fudge loves cheap cat food. The cheaper the better, in fact. I've bought him scads of expensive stuff and he ignores it completely. Expensive prescription food we tried once, he developed a horrid uirinary track infection on it and had to go on nearly 2 months worth of antibiotics. Even the vet was stumped by that one.
What can I say, he's a cheap date.
And a Correlian.
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Date: 2007-03-20 01:01 pm (UTC)Perfect weight. I'd have perfect weight cats if I could convince their daddy that they don't need a THIRD meal at night out of the treats he gives them ... grrrr ... ;D
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Date: 2007-03-19 11:22 pm (UTC)People are idjits. Total and complete. She has been blessedly off for a few days. I must ask her tomorrow if they were run over by the recall.
Funny, we were just talking about how much we liked the nutro for our animals. We put them on Iams recently and I'm not liking what it does to their poo. Eww. We don't ever do wet food either unless called for by the vet (like with Nibo recently, and it was science diet while he was recovering). So once we compare and contrast we might put them back on the Nutro happily.
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Date: 2007-03-19 11:33 pm (UTC)We are Nutro fans here; Iams and Science Diet seems to give our dogs horrible gas. And since Tracker's is so bad anyway, we don't do anything to upset his tummy worse!
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Date: 2007-03-20 12:47 am (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2007-03-19 11:45 pm (UTC)Makes life SO much easier. Unless they recall the meat I buy, but then it also affects me since we mostly eat the same things...
Luckily I have stayed out of the way of crazed owners
Date: 2007-03-20 04:38 am (UTC)Whatever.
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Re: Luckily I have stayed out of the way of crazed owners
Date: 2007-03-20 01:28 pm (UTC)We do without hairbows here, though I often like to tease Josh that with the amount of rain this area gets all the dogs need raincoats.
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Date: 2007-03-20 12:53 pm (UTC)We prefer JWs. The meat is nice and tender from all that ritualized self-abuse.
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Date: 2007-03-20 01:28 pm (UTC)*WEG*