October 10, 2007
I was wandering the supermarket the other day… and I happened upon the pet food aisle…
And it got me wondering…
Why is it that cat food is predominantly fish and seafood focussed… but dog food is predominantly red meat focussed?
Cats aren’t natural fisherman… I mean… you don’t see many cats crawling out of the surf dragging a freshly caught tuna…
I realise it may simply be a matter of fish being a preferred taste for cats… despite the fact that seafood is not within the realm of a cat’s usual dietary regime in the wild… or indeed in suburbia…
That being said… why is it that we don’t feed dogs more seafood based products? Do they not like seafood? I know a lot of dogs are happy to steal the cat’s food… Or is it that dogs simply prefer land-based meat forms… like Beef… Lamb… Fido… or Muffy…
Fido and Muffy? You think I’m joking…
Indeed… I wasn’t sure exactly what went into tinned pet food before I started writing this post… so I did a little research…
But brace yourself… here we go:
According to the “Made How” and the “Your Animal’s Health” website:
The primary ingredients in pet food are byproducts of meat, poultry, and seafood, feed grains, and soybean meal. Among the animals used in rendering are livestock, horses, and house pets which have been put to sleep. The National Animal Control Association estimated that each year about 5 million pets were shipped to rendering plants and recycled into pet food during the 1990s. They are generally listed as meat or bone meal in the ingredient lists.
I have to say… hats off. That’s recycling at its most efficient… albeit a trifle cannibalistic…
But now I understand why they have pictures of puppies on the can…
It’s because they are an ingredient!
And maybe that’s why it is called “Pet” Food…
But getting back onto my original topic… maybe we’ll never know why dogs and cats have vastly different tinned food ranges… short of undertaking a pet referendum…
Hmmm… but in thinking it through… I can’t see a referendum working…
Cats are too arrogant to turn up to vote…
And most dogs would simply eat their own ballot papers…
But in closing… I think that Ralph Wiggum sums it up best…
“My cat’s breath smells like cat food!”
It sure does Ralph… it sure does…
But your dog’s breath smells like… well… other dogs…
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Dog meat = good meat
Comment by Jonny — October 18, 2007 @ 10:23 am
This from a guy who’s going to open a “rent-a-puppy” business…
But I guess it pays to have a secondary fall back in case of failure…
Comment by Stick — October 18, 2007 @ 4:54 pm
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Comment by Johnny — January 7, 2009 @ 1:00 pm
nice blog and thanks for inspiring ideas..
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