Modern Day Trend In Special Cordon Bleu pets Foods.

[padi56]

Just pop in to your local supermarket or Mega Store for you guys across the pond for proof of how we pet owners are making a rod for their own backs as far as Pet feeding habits are concerned.

You will notice a complete aisle perhaps two, dedicated to all sorts of flavours. From Beef and Heart, to Tuna salad, including Tinned, Packeted and bagged varieties and textures ranging from Soft,lost my teeth, through to Granite rock hard for those dogs with huge teeth and jaws.

My recollection of pets and eating habits started,when I was just a boy quite a few years back now and longer than most on forum have been alive.And with our family dog a Alsatian (German Shepard) called Rex, which would eat anything within striking distance or get into his mouth, and at a speed which would embarrass a blinking Shark!. Favourite foods included meat, vegetables,neighbourhood cats,the odd Postman's trouser leg,or Shoe leather, Soft furnishings, car tyres and wooden blocks.Plus anything he could get into his mouth would do for him on a bad day when times were hard and money was tight and in those days there were quite a few..

Generations of old ladies and so called celebrities and pop stars with pet dogs resembling large fluffy hair brushes led to the arrival of in the UK. 'Mr Dog'. Which was a specialist dog food, in dinky little easy open tins, and expect the rest of the world now containing allegedly large amounts of addictive chemical drugs to which the hairbrush doggies would become addicted, resulting in a creature which would sooner die than eat anything else.

Not happy with this, the Cat food departments of the same companies, started advertising scenes of a sexy twenty-something girlie's reclining on a leather settees. While Tibbles daintily nibbled upon the latest designer Cat-food which at least 8 out of 10 cats preferred ('Preferred my ars#) preferred to being kicked around the living room' was the omitted sentence naturally)

We now have ageist pet-food too! Kitten food, Cat-food and Old age pensioner Cat food to add to the menu. What next? Mid-life-crisis cat or Dog-food?

Lets look at the natural life of these animals before domestic bliss set in.

Dogs eat cats without being asked,cats rummage around bins ripping open black sacks and devouring three day old chicken scraps like the scavengers they really are, plus the odd bird or rodent.Cats and dogs aside, look at pet birds, they eat WORMS and Cockroaches...seeds etc whatever they could find

I have not seen Cockroach flavoured birdseed for sale, even in ASDA for hells sake. Why not? This begs the question, why, when Farmers keep Alsatians to fend off the poachers, do Council house dwellers not keep uncaged birds to eat the infestations of household insects such as wood Lice, ants,Roaches and Weevils.
A hungry Parakeet would be bloody magic for this purpose. Imagine sitting in watching television when the parakeet swoops down and picks up it's fourth insect of the evening, satisfying not only the birds but the local Health requirements too,maybe every tenant should be issued with one.


What does the future hold for us then?

Jamie Oliver a so called celeb chef is prime candidate for a new celebrity range of pet food for sure. The Cockney plebe has enough spare tongue, to make a few truckloads of Haute cuisine cat-food already, and the hairbrush owners all love the pleb chef to bits so it's sure to be a hit.

How about a new dog-food for Rottweillers by Gordon Ramsay? called
'It's fe#ki#g Dogfood' it would be scooped into the trolleys by the public Neanderthals faster than the Rotty will be able to eat it, tin and all....*

I always wondered what Vegans fed their Cats.. Lentil flavoured Whiskers would be the obvious choice, while Tesco could proudly proclaim 'This is not ordinary Pal, this is Free range woodland bred Pal marinaded in oak smoked pork' or whatever.

Seeing as the pets are not allowed to roam the aisles,of supermarkets choosing which delicacy to feast on. And besides they can't bloody read anyway, I blame the foolish idealistic pet owners for this ridiculous Cordon Bleu pet food farce but we all just love animals don't we..

[ducatidoc]

9.2 Couldn't quite feel the anger, bit light on the expletives.

[Rogue884]

I buy FRM at the feed store, 40lb bag for $25.00. When you look at all the designer doggie-crap and the rest of the dry foods they are all basically the same, especially when you look at their crude contents. They are mostly corn meal, but the feed store brands have actual percentages of crude content and vary by protein and fat percentages.

[STEELINOX]

Goin to COSTCO, I'll report back with my findings...

[figbo]

I like tuna.

[padi56]

Originally Posted by Rogue884

I buy FRM at the feed store, 40lb bag for $25.00. When you look at all the designer doggie-crap and the rest of the dry foods they are all basically the same, especially when you look at their crude contents. They are mostly corn meal, but the feed store brands have actual percentages of crude content and vary by protein and fat percentages.

Have to agree but such is the power of pet-food branding and advertising today almost make you want to go and eat the stuff yourself.

[itinfo]

i am really interested.

[keschete]

Actually, my issue about most commercial pet food is that it is full of wheat and corn. Dogs and cats should eat meat. They were not designed to eat grain. All these fancy foods that contain high grain contents are bad for your pets.

There are some US diets, non comercial, that advocate Raw foods. This is actually a great diet and you feed things like uncooked chicken wings. In reality, diets like this are like what you were talking about, dogs eating cats :) and they are closer to what a dog would eat in the wild.

I try to feed my dogs a good brand that has chicken or lamb as the main ingredient. I also try to stay away from foods that have wheat or corn glutens. I like Blue Buffalo and Nutro. They are a bit more expensive, but I just buy the plain kibble.

Those fancy wet foods are NOT good for a dog's teeth and dogs don't need a whole bunch of veggies in their food. They need meat!