8 Ways to Sunday

Update (4/3/2007): Over 2,900 people have visited this page in the last two weeks, looking for information about the recent pet food recall. Several have posted questions, which I’ve done my best to answer. The original blog post has nothing to do with the recall, but you may find answers to your questions in the comments. Please read all the existing comments before making a new one.

To avoid any confusion, here are a few points I want to make clear from the beginning:

1. I do not work for Purina, the makers of Fancy Feast cat food.
2. I’m not a veterinarian, I’m a website developer and graphic designer.
3. If you want to make absolutely certain your pet’s diet is safe, you should talk to your veterinarian about it.

Thanks for stopping by. I hope the information in the comments is helpful to you. Also, feel free to roam around the rest of the site. I write on a wide variety of topics here, and you may find something else that interests you.

According to PetAlert, this is the cat version of the Heimlich Maneuver. Color me incredulous.

I feed Riley from Purina’s Fancy Feast line — a supposedly “gourmet” brand of cat food — because just about every other wet food seems to make him puke. Overall it’s a very good product, but tonight as I was dishing out his diner of “Flaked Fish & Shrimp Feast” I noticed something wrong.

Mixed in with the mashed-up fish and actual tiny shrimps (this is premium shit, I tell ya) were a bunch of fish bones. Some were little hair-fine bones of the type you can never really remove, but there were at least three big hard chokers in there. I won’t be getting this particular flavor again. Just a heads-up for the other cat parents out there.