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Cat chew toy?
I bought some treats for my dog that are basically chicken jerky. They
are leathery strips about an inch and a half wide and three or four inches long. The dog loves them, but so, it seems, does my cat Motley. She was nosing around the bag, eventually got it open, and was making off with a whole strip when I caught her. I've been carving off tiny bits for her and she loves them. My fear is that I give her a piece that's too big and she chokes on it. What if I gave her a whole piece like she wanted? It would be too big and too tough to bite off pieces and would be basically a chew toy. |
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On Tue, 20 Nov 2012 09:26:03 -0500, Magic Mood Jeep
wrote: Please be careful with these things - there have been many reports of pets dying because they were poisoned by these things! Most are made in china now, and you know how well they like to use unsafe products... Check the package and google the brand to see if it is one that there is a warning about. It is. Crap. Well, the cat had only a miniscule amount and the dog only a half dozen or so strips over a month or so. I tossed the rest. Too bad, The critters loved them and they looked good enough for human consumption. |
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On Tue, 20 Nov 2012 09:11:18 -0800, The Other Guy
wrote: On Tue, 20 Nov 2012 09:26:03 -0500, Magic Mood Jeep wrote: Please be careful with these things - there have been many reports of pets dying because they were poisoned by these things! PROVE it, with a link... I just did a search on "pet food china recall" and got plenty, including one for the specific brand I was using. |
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The Other Guy wrote:
On Tue, 20 Nov 2012 09:26:03 -0500, Magic Mood Jeep wrote: Please be careful with these things - there have been many reports of pets dying because they were poisoned by these things! PROVE it, with a link... To reply by email, lose the Ks... Idiot! -- Adrian |
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"Magic Mood Jeep" wrote in message ... On 11/19/2012 8:20 PM, wrote: I bought some treats for my dog that are basically chicken jerky. They are leathery strips about an inch and a half wide and three or four inches long. The dog loves them, but so, it seems, does my cat Motley. She was nosing around the bag, eventually got it open, and was making off with a whole strip when I caught her. I've been carving off tiny bits for her and she loves them. My fear is that I give her a piece that's too big and she chokes on it. What if I gave her a whole piece like she wanted? It would be too big and too tough to bite off pieces and would be basically a chew toy. Please be careful with these things - there have been many reports of pets dying because they were poisoned by these things! Most are made in china now, and you know how well they like to use unsafe products... Check the package and google the brand to see if it is one that there is a warning about. I once bought Boyfie some treats, found out they came from China and then threw them in the bin. I haven't forgotten what happened to those American kitties who got their kidneys destroyed. We don't do Chinese products in this house if we know that's where they're from. I try not to buy anything from China as a protest. I don't suppose it makes much difference what I do, but it makes me feel better. Every time I reject a Chinese product I think "that's one for those cats that died from that melamine contaminated food" And they did it deliberately to enhance the protein content. I would never trust them again. |
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Cat chew toy?
I bought some treats for my dog that are basically chicken jerky. They
are leathery strips about an inch and a half wide and three or four inches long. The dog loves them, but so, it seems, does my cat Motley. What if I gave her a whole piece like she wanted? It would be too big and too tough to bite off pieces and would be basically a chew toy. Cats have enough sense not to eat things bigger than their head. I wouldn't worry about it. Please be careful with these things - there have been many reports of pets dying because they were poisoned by these things! Have there? Can you refer us to even one? *Plastic* chew toys (or other toys a cat can chew on, like plastic toy snakes) are often poisonous to cats. And some plastic chew toys can kill dogs by mechanical damage: http://www.benderplace.com/allcreatu...uct_alerts.htm That isn't what the OP is talking about. Most are made in china now, I very much doubt it. China exports very little chicken to the West, they eat it themselves. Thailand is a major supplier to the UK. and you know how well they like to use unsafe products... We know very well how some people have vindictive racist paranoias about the Chinese. Cut it out. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- e m a i l : j a c k @ c a m p i n . m e . u k Jack Campin, 11 Third Street, Newtongrange, Midlothian EH22 4PU, Scotland mobile 07800 739 557 http://www.campin.me.uk Twitter: JackCampin |
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On 11/20/2012 9:32 PM, Jack Campin wrote:
I bought some treats for my dog that are basically chicken jerky. They are leathery strips about an inch and a half wide and three or four inches long. The dog loves them, but so, it seems, does my cat Motley. What if I gave her a whole piece like she wanted? It would be too big and too tough to bite off pieces and would be basically a chew toy. Cats have enough sense not to eat things bigger than their head. I wouldn't worry about it. I don't know about that - Whenever we buy pig ears (usually dried/smoked) as a treat for the dogs, and the package is NOT closed or put away properly, I will find one or two in the package that have kitty teeth marks on them later. Most pig ears are fairly large, but the cats seem to enjoy gnawing on them anyway. Also, I have seen cats catch rabbits, and the rabbit is almost as big as the cat! Oh, lest we not forget that lions are also feline and they will hunt down a water buffalo, which is *much* bigger than it's own head... probably bigger than the lion itself! Please be careful with these things - there have been many reports of pets dying because they were poisoned by these things! Have there? Can you refer us to even one? Here's a Google search for you in regards to the recall of the chicken jerky dog treats https://www.google.com/search?q=chic...ient=firefox-a You will notice that most of the articles are dated this year, and come from sources more reliable than 'wikipedia"! I saw NBC (a news broadcasting organization) and the FDA (Food and Drug Administration) among the listings. Several years ago, there were several pet food recalls as the food was "tainted" with melamine (a plastic, usually found in powdered form, used to make what we used to call Bakelite)... turns out that the corn/wheat/rice gluten used in the food was processed in China and the Chinese had found that melamine showed up as a protein, and so was adding it to the gluten to boost the protein content of the corn/wheat/rice gluten. Seems the Chinese didn't research what melamine does to human/animal bodies when consumed (it causes kidney failure, among other things). Thousands of pets were affected and hundreds died. Not just in the US, but in Canada, Europe, and South Africa. You can read more about it here http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2007_pet_food_recalls There are more links to be found here, if you do not trust Wikipedia https://www.google.com/search?q=chin...ient=firefox-a This includes a story dated February 7, 2008, from the NY Times http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/07/bu...1.9826453.html *Plastic* chew toys (or other toys a cat can chew on, like plastic toy snakes) are often poisonous to cats. And some plastic chew toys can kill dogs by mechanical damage: http://www.benderplace.com/allcreatu...uct_alerts.htm That isn't what the OP is talking about. Most are made in china now, I very much doubt it. China exports very little chicken to the West, they eat it themselves. Thailand is a major supplier to the UK. My meaning was that most of the *recalled* products are made in China, not most products are made in China... and you know how well they like to use unsafe products... We know very well how some people have vindictive racist paranoias about the Chinese. Cut it out. I have no "racist paranoia" about Chinese people (how would I survive in the college (which has a rather large Asian enrollment) town that I live if I did?), but do not trust their business practices. Do you know why US companies send their factories over there? Labor is cheap and corruption is rampant, and there is little regard for safety (of workers or consumers), ecology or animal "welfare." In 2009, a (human) baby formula was offered for sale (in China only, thankfully) that was linked to at least 6 infant deaths and over 300,000 infants sickened. Again, melamine was used to strengthen the protein content of (extremely) watered down milk used to make the formula. Here's a link to a story (from a UK newspaper) about the sentencing to death of 2 of those involved in the production of this product: http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009...death-sentence Also note that they have been known to purposefully mislabel products for sale outside their country to "soothe" the "morals" or "ethics" of those buying the products. Case in point of their labeling the fur used in fur-trimmed jackets (also used in those ridiculous boots known as Ugg boots) as "raccoon" when in fact there is an animal in Asia known as the raccoon dog, which is in reality a canid species and not a procyonid like the raccoons we in North America are familiar with. These poor animals were being skinned alive by the Chinese. https://www.google.com/search?q=racc...ient=firefox-a I'm not going to do all the research for you, since by your reply, I can see that you know how to type as well as I do. But I will say that, due to all the "recalls" of products manufactured in China, I will not buy anything that is for consumption (either human or animal) that came from there. How do we know that what is being labeled as chicken jerky is really chicken, and not cat, dog, or some other animal? Since, as you say, China rarely exports chicken and keeps it for their own consumption, so, what are they using instead? For all we know it's tree bark! I will also try my best to not buy pet toys that are produced in China since a majority of pets use their mouths during play - who's to say *what* was used in the production, that may be harmful (pesticides, dyes or paints containing lead, etc., etc.). Several years ago I purchased from an online source a box of 60 toy mousies for the clowder to play with. There was a mix of black, white & grey colored ones in the box. The box was labeled "Made in China"... I washed them all before giving any of them to the critters - and I'm glad I did: the water turned black from the dye used to dye the black ones! I kept washing them until the water was clear. I did not want any of that black dye ingested (accidentally during play) by the cats (or dogs, they like to play with them too!), since it was pet product and the ingredients/sources of the materials used in making them did not, by law at that time (and probably still don't), have to be listed! I have my reasons not to trust certain products from China - I'm sure you have your reasons why you would or would NOT trust something from a foreign source. I have no qualms against purchasing say, a plastic molded laundry hamper (or basket) that was manufactured in China (hard to purchase such a thing here, because the two major manufacturers of such products in the US (Sterlite & Rubbermaid) use US based factories), since any coloring would be in the plastic itself and not painted onto it, is fairly benign a product, is NOT going to be ingested by humans or pets (therefore would not be toxic or poisonous), and will not start a fire in my home by shorting out or overheating. In fact, the only danger that I can imagine it might possibly pose would be if I were to drop it (on my own foot or onto a pet) or trip over it - in which case the resulting damage would be my own negligence or clumsiness, whichever that case may be. -- ^..^ This is Kitty. Copy and paste Kitty into your signature to help her wipe out Bunny's world domination. -- The ONE and ONLY lefthanded-pathetic-paranoid-psychotic-sarcastic-wiseass-ditzy former-blonde in Bloomington! (And proud of it, too)© email me at nalee1964 (at) comcast (dot) net |
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"Jack Campin" wrote in message ... We know very well how some people have vindictive racist paranoias about the Chinese. Cut it out. Oh, I invented it, did I, when so many American cats died through kidney failure because (was it Iams food?) the Chinese put malamine in it to boost the protein content and it killed those cats. I have no vindictive racist paranoia. That happened and is well documented and because of that nothing chinese will even touch my boy's lips if I can help it. I resent being called a racist just because I don't want my beloved boy's kidneys to fail. Tweed ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- e m a i l : j a c k @ c a m p i n . m e . u k Jack Campin, 11 Third Street, Newtongrange, Midlothian EH22 4PU, Scotland mobile 07800 739 557 http://www.campin.me.uk Twitter: JackCampin |
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"Christina Websell" wrote in message ... "Jack Campin" wrote in message ... We know very well how some people have vindictive racist paranoias about the Chinese. Cut it out. Oh, I invented it, did I, when so many American cats died through kidney failure because (was it Iams food?) the Chinese put malamine in it to boost the protein content and it killed those cats. I have no vindictive racist paranoia. That happened and is well documented and because of that nothing chinese will even touch my boy's lips if I can help it. I resent being called a racist just because I don't want my beloved boy's kidneys to fail. Tweed Sorry to add to my own but I remember Jack objecting when Helen's beloved cat got shot by gypsies, he objected because she called them pikies as racist I tell you what, if anyone shot my cat I would feel entitled to call them the worse name I could ever think of in the world. and I would get my terrier men after them. They would find who did it. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- e m a i l : j a c k @ c a m p i n . m e . u k Jack Campin, 11 Third Street, Newtongrange, Midlothian EH22 4PU, Scotland mobile 07800 739 557 http://www.campin.me.uk Twitter: JackCampin |
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