pet peeve #2
Pet Peeve #2
I wanted to start of by stating that the numbered order of the pet peeves I place on the blog have noting to do with listing my pet peeves in order. Just in case you cared.
This is about pet food. I am talking in particular about dog and cat food. I would include bird food but I have never seen this on bird food. As far as rats, gerbils and guinea pigs, I do not mean to insult anyone but I think of them more as vermin than pets. Oh, and reptiles are most definitely not on my pet list. I never understood why people want pets that are not able or interested in returning their affection.
Ok here goes. What is the idea of putting comments like “new better taste!” on pet food? I mean really, is there someone that is paid to taste this stuff? In addition, how do they know it is better tasting to the animals just because the latest batch does not make them gag or is somehow more appealing to the human palette?
I love my pets, know that they are intelligent and do have ways of communicating their feelings to me. I can honestly say that my pets have never jumped up on their hind legs and said “ OH MAN THIS NEW STUFF DEFIANTLY TASTE BETTER THAN THAT OLD CRAP YOU USED TO FEED US!” I can also tell you they have never lingered long at the food bowl savoring the latest new pet food. How fine tuned can dogs and cats taste be? I mean look where their mouths have been.
I think unless the pet food companies are willing to tell us how they can know it taste better they should say things like “ new formula” and then say on the can or bag that the pets they tested it on seem to like it. That way I would believe them and could get this picture of a man in a lab coat on all fours eating this stuff out of my head.
posted by steve kay @ 1:23 PM
2 Comments:
Oh I could go into a huge rant about pet food but I wont. Ill make it short and simple. Alot of dogs and cats will eat something by smell and not usually by taste (smell obviously comes first before it reaches the mouth, taste), the chemical they place in the pet food is what causes the addiction to that specific type of pet food. The gassy aroma that transpires from the food is a rancid animal fat type grease form that is sprayed on the food to make it appealing to the animals senses (most dogs will eat cat feces for this very reason, as well as even other dogs feces)In actuality it has most nothing to do with the new improved taste of a pet food. It has to do with strong senses of smell and addictive chemicals that you place into the animals body which in turn will cause the animal to go through withdrawls if it does not keep up with its normal amount of eating these foods. As well from there, it also leads to the answers of why our animals tend to get so fat, once they start eating more and more they must keep up with their chemical intake and so forth. Its an interesting world in that you have to wonder, how and why it is we turn our pets into drug addicts.
This all may sound a little out of this world, but trust me, I have done an enormous amount of reading and studying into this... this is from years of experience.
beartifulmisery: thanks for the feed back, but if it has nothing to do with the actual taste then my petpeeve is even stronger.
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