More thrilling (seriously) non-eventfulness in our house so far...

I read about how Menu Foods handled the tainted food, and that certainly pisses me off... ( Behind a cut for disturbing content )

I'm now sorting out who does (Royal Canin) and who absolutely doesn't (Natural Balance) buy from them -- not sure on Canidae-Felidae yet. I really don't care whether it's the same facilities; I don't want to support Menu Foods, period... Brands that do are off my shopping list, and all companies I use will get a letter explaining why I will/won't be buying their products in the future.

In happier news, I just discovered Halo Pets food at PetCo the other day -- they make the recipes from The New Natural Cat, a book I've used as a kind of kitty bible for a long time now. They say on their site: "no chemicals, artificial flavors, preservatives, by-products or fillers" and that they use USDA-approved human-grade ingredients. I have to check, but I'm pretty sure that it fulfills the requirements for a prescription-level heart/kidney food, which I've totally failed to find in a brand that isn't also scary.

My cat chores currently take *so* long (about two hours) that it's almost unbelievable: on top of food/water/litterboxes and giving Bastian his meds 4x/day, I'm also having to feed Max every few hours since he dropped weight during another refusal-to-eat period, plus giving Lysine to Whoosey, Boo (Black), Chai, and Max. PetCo's register is often helpfully giving me "$2 for doing our phone survey" coupons, though, which keeps the canned-food bills under control, at least.

Oops, it's 3am, time to get moving... yay, BED!

Tags: bastian, boo-black, chai, chores, felidae, food, food recall, halo pets, lysine, max, natural balance, royal canin, whoosey
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