"Yowie" wrote in message
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"badwilson" wrote in message
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"Jette Goldie" wrote in message
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Don't beat yourself up........s**t happens; we get broke once in
awhile
and
have to deprive our furry bosses of their usual fine dining, earning
their
ire. If you leave the food in the bowls they will eventually eat it
(but
hope you don't live in hot climate like ours). Cats are stubborn but
we
have
to support everybody and hang in there.


heh - have you seen the Whiskas advert with the gorgeous
tabby cat trying to tell his human he wants fed while his
human is eating chinese take-away? Human finds there's
no catfood, runs down to the local convenience store where
they don't stock Whiskas - buys some cheaper stuff and
puts the label from an old can round it, serves it up - and
the cat runs out the house in disgust.

Now as it happens, my two won't touch Whiskas (if "nine
out of ten cats prefer it" I am owned by TWO "tenth cats")
but if I buy something other than what they *will* eat, I
get sulks and hunger strikes that go on for days.

Whiskas and Friskies are the only foods they sell in most stores here in
Thailand. Vino will eat it (he's not fussy) but I don't want to feed it
to
him 'cause I think it's probably crappy food. So I've been having
people
from Canada bring me cans of Iams and Science Diet in their suitcases
for
3
years. Also, I have managed to on occasion find some Iams, Nutro and SD
here for outrageous prices but when I do find them I buy every can in
the
store.
Probably not a good advertisement for Whiskas ;-)

Where is the Whiskas made, Britta?.

If its made here in Australia (or NZ) there are strict guidelines about
what
goes in it. While I wouldn't call it the best quality wet food around, the
Australian-made stuff doesn't seem all that bad from my POV. Besides,
Shmogg
eats it (most of the time) and that will do for me. The only "better" wet
cat food available in the supermarkets around here is Dine, and from all I
can see, there is nothing but the price that distinguishes Dine from
Whiskas. Ok, occasionally Shmogg starts turning his nose up at Whiskas -
which is when I buy Dine, but he's also been known to turn his known up at
Dine - so we go back toWhiskas. I don't consider it "cheap and nasty"
(thats
what generic brand cat food is!) He also has a bowl thats always got
Whiskas
crunchies in it, and he seems pretty darn healthy for a 14(is)yo cat.

Yowie

Ok, I just checked and it is made in Australia. I do feed it to Vino
sometimes, in between the Iams and Science Diet to stretch those out a bit
more. When looking at the labels of ingredients, I would prefer to feed
Iams over Whiskas. Although I just checked Science Diet and the ingredients
don't seem that great, so maybe I'll phase it out. I used to be able to get
Nutro, but the store has closed down :-( Nutro had the best ingredients out
of the stuff available to me.
--
Britta
Check out pictures of Vino at:
http://photos.yahoo.com/badwilson click on the Vino album