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Cake day: August 30th, 2023

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  • I actually don’t know what that is! I got all this knowledge working in the pet food industry. Vegetarian diets are such a bummer. Like, if you get an animal, it’s on you to adapt to their needs, not them adapting to your principles! I get that it’s hard for some vegans/vegetarians to handle meat—but in that case…don’t get an animal that needs it lol

    There’s unfortunately so much misinformation, and a lot of it is pushed by the kibble companies. Did you know that most veterinarian schools are at least partially funded by purina, Iams, etc? The fact that most vets offices sell science diet for insane markups should be a huge tip off. So unfortunately the lies run deep. It’s not surprising so many people fall for it—like the myth that kibble cleans your pet’s teeth!? What poppycock! Do crackers and croutons clean our teeth? Hell no. And there is an enzyme in the saliva of dogs that actually turns the necessary starches to bind kibble into sugar. Hence the pandemic of tooth decay in so many.


  • Cats will actually eat until they get the necessary nutrients from their food, unlike us where we stop when we’re full, regardless of how good the food actually is. So a cat free feeding terrible food can become obese fairly easily.

    Kibble is the absolute worst thing you can feed cats. It’s usually at least half fillers and binders. They’re obligate carnivores so raw meat or high quality canned food where it’s mostly meat with some hydrating broth or something is as good as it gets for them.












  • TheFriar@lemm.eetocats@lemmy.worldWoke up at 3am to this.
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    18 days ago

    It’s my dream to have one dog and one cat and have them be best friends—or even better, the three of us are best friends and we do everything together and we hang out at a coffee shop called the central perk and then open on coffe shop couch, afternoon, me cat and dog share a single cup of Joe, all three of us competing to lap it up out of the mug with our tongues and coffee is getting everywhere and studio audience [laughs] and then theme song starts playing and “I’ll be there for you”