PetGuard food for Espy and Nipsy?

On Thu, 22 Jan 2004 01:31:16 GMT, "Elizabeth Blake"
wrote:

"dgk" wrote in message
.. .
I passed a new pet store yesterday so I stopped in to pick up some
whatevers. They had a brand of food I hadn't noticed before called
PetGuard. The label seemed reasonable and I bought a few varieties. No
Turkey. The boys just don't like turkey and I won't waste money on it.

I tried out the first can this morning. Rabbit and Rice. Rice I figure
they can do without but maybe the Rabbit would be ok. I peeled the lid
off and stuck a fork into it. Very hard stuff. Perhaps a chisel would
work better? I chipped it out with the fork.

I've given mine PetGuard in the past. I also saw the rabbit flavor and
decided to try that. I thought I had gotten a bad batch, because the stuff
was near impossible to pry out of the can. The cats wouldn't touch it, and
the other two cans went into the trash. They did like some other flavors
(beef stew? and something chicken) but I decided to stay away from the more
out-there flavors.

Liz


Ok, apparently the Rabbit is an aberration. Unfortunate that I piced
that one to start with. I'll use one of the others tomorrow. I fed
them something else today just to make sure they eat something. Not
that either is going to fade away any time soon.

On Thu, 22 Jan 2004 01:31:16 GMT, "Elizabeth Blake"
wrote:

"dgk" wrote in message
.. .
I passed a new pet store yesterday so I stopped in to pick up some
whatevers. They had a brand of food I hadn't noticed before called
PetGuard. The label seemed reasonable and I bought a few varieties. No
Turkey. The boys just don't like turkey and I won't waste money on it.

I tried out the first can this morning. Rabbit and Rice. Rice I figure
they can do without but maybe the Rabbit would be ok. I peeled the lid
off and stuck a fork into it. Very hard stuff. Perhaps a chisel would
work better? I chipped it out with the fork.

I've given mine PetGuard in the past. I also saw the rabbit flavor and
decided to try that. I thought I had gotten a bad batch, because the stuff
was near impossible to pry out of the can. The cats wouldn't touch it, and
the other two cans went into the trash. They did like some other flavors
(beef stew? and something chicken) but I decided to stay away from the more
out-there flavors.

Liz


Ok, apparently the Rabbit is an aberration. Unfortunate that I piced
that one to start with. I'll use one of the others tomorrow. I fed
them something else today just to make sure they eat something. Not
that either is going to fade away any time soon.

On Thu, 22 Jan 2004 01:31:16 GMT, "Elizabeth Blake"
wrote:

"dgk" wrote in message
.. .
I passed a new pet store yesterday so I stopped in to pick up some
whatevers. They had a brand of food I hadn't noticed before called
PetGuard. The label seemed reasonable and I bought a few varieties. No
Turkey. The boys just don't like turkey and I won't waste money on it.

I tried out the first can this morning. Rabbit and Rice. Rice I figure
they can do without but maybe the Rabbit would be ok. I peeled the lid
off and stuck a fork into it. Very hard stuff. Perhaps a chisel would
work better? I chipped it out with the fork.

I've given mine PetGuard in the past. I also saw the rabbit flavor and
decided to try that. I thought I had gotten a bad batch, because the stuff
was near impossible to pry out of the can. The cats wouldn't touch it, and
the other two cans went into the trash. They did like some other flavors
(beef stew? and something chicken) but I decided to stay away from the more
out-there flavors.

Liz


Ok, apparently the Rabbit is an aberration. Unfortunate that I piced
that one to start with. I'll use one of the others tomorrow. I fed
them something else today just to make sure they eat something. Not
that either is going to fade away any time soon.

olitter (PawsForThought) wrote in message ...
(...)

Before I switched my cats to a homemade diet, I fed them Pet Guard (along
with a couple of other brands) and they really liked it.

I've also fed this food, among others, up until fairly recently; it
seems to have a good nutritional composition (at least some flavours)
according to the various food-fondler websites. However, when I
decided to make a final double check on the composition, Petguard
refused to send me the info (i.e., proximate analysis), stating that
it was 'proprietary'. So I stopped feeding it. I also informed the PG
people I was doing so.

This makes me wonder from what source the info at
http://www.sugarcats.net/sites/jmpeerson/canfood.html and
http://webpages.charter.net/katkarma/canfood.htm was obtained.

(Parenthetically, this is the same reason I stopped feeding Pinnacle
food, although in this case my emails were ignored rather than the
company refusing to provide the info).

I also thought the picture of the cat on the Petguard cans was really
crap. So there.

Steve.

olitter (PawsForThought) wrote in message ...
(...)

Before I switched my cats to a homemade diet, I fed them Pet Guard (along
with a couple of other brands) and they really liked it.

I've also fed this food, among others, up until fairly recently; it
seems to have a good nutritional composition (at least some flavours)
according to the various food-fondler websites. However, when I
decided to make a final double check on the composition, Petguard
refused to send me the info (i.e., proximate analysis), stating that
it was 'proprietary'. So I stopped feeding it. I also informed the PG
people I was doing so.

This makes me wonder from what source the info at
http://www.sugarcats.net/sites/jmpeerson/canfood.html and
http://webpages.charter.net/katkarma/canfood.htm was obtained.

(Parenthetically, this is the same reason I stopped feeding Pinnacle
food, although in this case my emails were ignored rather than the
company refusing to provide the info).

I also thought the picture of the cat on the Petguard cans was really
crap. So there.

Steve.

olitter (PawsForThought) wrote in message ...
(...)

Before I switched my cats to a homemade diet, I fed them Pet Guard (along
with a couple of other brands) and they really liked it.

I've also fed this food, among others, up until fairly recently; it
seems to have a good nutritional composition (at least some flavours)
according to the various food-fondler websites. However, when I
decided to make a final double check on the composition, Petguard
refused to send me the info (i.e., proximate analysis), stating that
it was 'proprietary'. So I stopped feeding it. I also informed the PG
people I was doing so.

This makes me wonder from what source the info at
http://www.sugarcats.net/sites/jmpeerson/canfood.html and
http://webpages.charter.net/katkarma/canfood.htm was obtained.

(Parenthetically, this is the same reason I stopped feeding Pinnacle
food, although in this case my emails were ignored rather than the
company refusing to provide the info).

I also thought the picture of the cat on the Petguard cans was really
crap. So there.

Steve.