Vortex, I don't think your profile addy is cooperating today. So I sent it off through Facebook. I hope that is ok with you. And thank you so much for taking a look at it.
Do you know what else has blood in it? Blood.
Spike ,'Sleeper'
Spike's Bitches 44: It's about the rules having changed.
[NAFDA] Spike-centric discussion. Lusty, lewd (only occasionally crude), risqué (and frisqué), bawdy (Oh, lawdy!), flirty ('cuz we're purty), raunchy talk inside. Caveat lector.
WindSparrow - Feb 04, 2009 11:46:00 am PST #93 of 30000
Love is stronger than death and harder than sorrow. Those who practice it are fierce like the light of stars traveling eons to pierce the night.
Liese S. - Feb 04, 2009 11:48:00 am PST #94 of 30000
"Faded like the lilac, he thought."
Mmm, bacon. I just had a late lunch of a cafe americano and a bacon & bleu cheese quiche. I love bacon.
omnis_audis - Feb 04, 2009 11:50:30 am PST #95 of 30000
omnis, pursue. That's an order from a shy woman who can use M-16. - Shir
har. Omnis, I posed a question to you in F2Fthanks for letting me know. I try to keep up, but then the F2F dates went up when I was working crazy hours, and I hadn't skipped ahead. Perfect excuse to.
Ginger - Feb 04, 2009 11:51:32 am PST #96 of 30000
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
I'd like to at least see it some time, WS. I'm rather unnerved at some ingredients in pet food and it none of it smells like food.
My yard was full of birds today, including starlings, and I just had to run out and fill the feeder, because it had run out of seed and they were attacking it like a Hitchcock outtake. They tore off two perches.
vw bug - Feb 04, 2009 11:53:35 am PST #97 of 30000
Mostly lurking...
They tore off two perches.
Oh, goodness!
WS, I'd love to see it too.
Emily - Feb 04, 2009 11:59:45 am PST #98 of 30000
"In the equation E = mc⬧, c⬧ is a pretty big honking number." - Scola
Oh no! Should I not be using Purina? What should I use? I totally want to pamper my [brat of a cat], but a) vet recommendations have been contradictory and b) she doesn't seem to give a shit what she eats.
Er, or perhaps I should just go read it when you post it.
Toddson - Feb 04, 2009 12:00:46 pm PST #99 of 30000
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"
oh! my little bit of excitement - I saw flying squirrels! two of them, on the ground, nibbling on something. So cute!
WindSparrow - Feb 04, 2009 12:17:18 pm PST #100 of 30000
Love is stronger than death and harder than sorrow. Those who practice it are fierce like the light of stars traveling eons to pierce the night.
Ok, I have banged it off to Ginger and vw. Emily, if you want it now, I'll send it along. If you want to wait until after it has been vetted (pun intended, no apologies), I will be sure to post a link here.
Purina, and a lot of other brands, have some ingredients that really spell trouble for Harvey. His digestive upsets taught me the need to read ingredients labels - wheat and corn products really set off his issues. And cats being obligate carnivores, the more meat in the first few ingredients in the list, the better. For dogs, meat is also a good thing, but as I understand it, it is a smidge less urgent. Still, here is a good website that explains a bit about how to read a pet food label. [link] IIRC it also has reviews of some brands, so you can see which are better and which are not so great.
Tom Scola - Feb 04, 2009 12:18:20 pm PST #101 of 30000
Mr. Scola’s wardrobe by Botany 500
Ok, I have banged it off to Ginger and vw.
Wow, that sentence is real easy to misread.
beekaytee - Feb 04, 2009 12:20:40 pm PST #102 of 30000
Compassionately intolerant
If Windsparrow is a pet food snob, that makes me the queen bitch of pet food. I'm sure she's much, much nicer about it than I have been in the past.
When Bartleby was so sick and I went into hyper-research mode out of desperation, I learned stuff you just don't want to know about some of the grocery store/common brands. Subsequently, I've pitched to both ends of the spectrum: raw home-made food to a kibble I respect with fresh stuff thrown in.
My theory is sort of a pay now vs paying later sort of thing. But, in the end, I've known some dogs who live long lives eating the worst brands and others who do better on the more 'human grade' brands.
I think the rule of thumb is the same for most things, if there are scary ingredients you would not eat yourself, chances are good they won't do your pet good.
My father used to feed his cat cooked liver every day...which my middle school life sciences teacher proclaimed to be a death sentence. The same cat also got that gross kitty pouched food that smells like plastic. She lived to 17 or 18, so go figure.