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Where do you get your best buys in cat food?
Is it K Mart, Wal Mart, Target or big box pet stores? Now that gas
is reasonalbe it may be worth it for me to drive to one of the stores to buy cat food. I used to get the 7 lb. Purina One but it seems expensive lately. |
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Where do you get your best buys in cat food?
On Jan 5, 4:20*pm, James wrote:
Is it K Mart, Wal Mart, Target or big box pet stores? * Now that gas is reasonalbe it may be worth it for me to drive to one of the stores to buy cat food. I used to get the 7 lb. Purina One but it seems expensive lately. Mice? ;) In all seriousness, good food is cheaper in the long run as other posters are noting. Buying it in bulk also helps. How many cats are we talking about? TMT |
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Where do you get your best buys in cat food?
On Jan 5, 5:20*pm, James wrote:
Is it K Mart, Wal Mart, Target or big box pet stores? * Now that gas is reasonalbe it may be worth it for me to drive to one of the stores to buy cat food. I used to get the 7 lb. Purina One but it seems expensive lately. Clip your coupons (and search for them on-line as well), purchase as *GOOD* food comes on sale and you won't do worse than your local chain- supermarket. Figure if you drive 20 miles R/T to a big-box, that will be anywhere from a buck to three bucks for gas alone, not to mention wear and tear and so forth. The IRS does not 'allow' ~$0.505/mile for automotive expenses for nothing, after all. And if you save a couple of bucks overall in the food, you are not paying yourself much, are you? My job takes me past pretty much every retailer national or otherwise every week. Even after all that, I find that Giant Foods to be as competitive as any of the others, including the Clubs - of which our company maintains corporate memberships for its employees. Writing for myself, I steer away from many house-brands of unidentified origins as I have no clue as to whether the ingredients include melamine or mutton, neither or both. Peter Wieck Melrose Park, PA |
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Where do you get your best buys in cat food?
On Jan 6, 3:31*pm, Too_Many_Tools wrote:
On Jan 5, 4:20*pm, James wrote: Is it K Mart, Wal Mart, Target or big box pet stores? * Now that gas is reasonalbe it may be worth it for me to drive to one of the stores to buy cat food. I used to get the 7 lb. Purina One but it seems expensive lately. Mice? ;) In all seriousness, good food is cheaper in the long run as other posters are noting. Buying it in bulk also helps. How many cats are we talking about? TMT We just have one pussy. BTW I went to the feed store to buy some hay and rabbit food.. They had a close out on their economy cat food. So I bought a 40 pound bag for $10. It was 1/2 price and so cheap I couldn't resist. I could use the $10 saved to give her 20 pounds of chicken legs. |
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Where do you get your best buys in cat food?
On Jan 6, 3:13*pm, James wrote:
On Jan 6, 3:31*pm, Too_Many_Tools wrote: On Jan 5, 4:20*pm, James wrote: Is it K Mart, Wal Mart, Target or big box pet stores? * Now that gas is reasonalbe it may be worth it for me to drive to one of the stores to buy cat food. I used to get the 7 lb. Purina One but it seems expensive lately. Mice? ;) In all seriousness, good food is cheaper in the long run as other posters are noting. Buying it in bulk also helps. How many cats are we talking about? TMT We just have one pussy. *BTW I went to the feed store to buy some hay and rabbit food.. They had a close out on their economy cat food. *So I bought a 40 pound bag for $10. *It was 1/2 price and so cheap I couldn't resist. *I could use the $10 saved to give her 20 pounds of chicken legs.- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text - Sounds like a lucky cat. ;) If you have any farm stores that serve the agriculture sector, they will sell in bulk and at decent prices. Farms have working cats and those cats need to be fed. The farmers make sure the furry hired hands get fed. TMT |
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Where do you get your best buys in cat food?
Too_Many_Tools wrote:
On Jan 6, 3:13 pm, James wrote: We just have one pussy. BTW I went to the feed store to buy some hay and rabbit food.. They had a close out on their economy cat food. So I bought a 40 pound bag for $10. It was 1/2 price and so cheap I couldn't resist. I could use the $10 saved to give her 20 pounds of chicken legs.- Hide quoted text - Sounds like a lucky cat. ;) If you have any farm stores that serve the agriculture sector, they will sell in bulk and at decent prices. Farms have working cats and those cats need to be fed. Presumably the work they do is ridding the farm of rodents. So why do they need extra food? Oh, wait, I know why. Holidays and personal days. The UFWA -- United Feline Workers of America. Never mind. The farmers make sure the furry hired hands get fed. Claws can give the term 'strike' a whole new meaning... -- Cheers, Bev ================================================== =============== "There's an apocryphal (I hope not !) story about a Bristol bike thief found cold, wet and bedraggled one morning, D locked by the neck to a local bridge." -- Anon |
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Where do you get your best buys in cat food?
"James" wrote:
Just have one pussy. BTW I went to the feed store to buy some hay and rabbit food.. They had a close out on their economy cat food. So I bought a 40 pound bag for $10. It was 1/2 price and so cheap I couldn't resist. I could use the $10 saved to give her 20 pounds of chicken legs. That works. Now all you need is a good storage container to keep the bugs and mice out of it. I assume a farm since you were buying hay. That 40# bag is probably totally USA generated and decent quality with none of the problems the overseas stuff has had. At the most, you may have a bit more corn filler than desired. At the worst, they may have not added taurine and you can adjust that well enough with a 5 lb bag added and mixed in, of a commercial sort or better yet, 2-3 TB wet sorts like purina etc a day. I fix a fair amount of my pet's foods up but we know just enough to use some of the canned or dry products in addition in sane amounts. Mostly, I make them a special noshe for lunch with home made broth (salt free) with a little bit of meat added. Daisy-cat is still a little over optimal weight but not badly. Cash-pup is just right. They get a small breakfast, a nooner small munchie, and 'dinner'. Breakfast is store stuff, nooner is home made, and dinner is a mix. |
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Where do you get your best buys in cat food?
cshenk wrote:
That 40# bag is probably totally USA generated and decent quality with none of the problems the overseas stuff has had. I'm not sure one can assume that. The melamine problem in 2007, a lot of USA brands were affected. It's a global market, and manufacturers order ingredients from wherever the deal is best. I lost 3 cats that year. I mostly fed them brands that weren't on the lists of affected catfood (which included even premium brands like Eukanuba and Science Diet), but one wonders. Dave |
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Where do you get your best buys in cat food?
On Jan 6, 9:50*pm, The Real Bev wrote:
Too_Many_Tools wrote: On Jan 6, 3:13 pm, James wrote: We just have one pussy. *BTW I went to the feed store to buy some hay and rabbit food.. They had a close out on their economy cat food. *So I bought a 40 pound bag for $10. *It was 1/2 price and so cheap I couldn't resist. *I could use the $10 saved to give her 20 pounds of chicken legs.- Hide quoted text - Sounds like a lucky cat. ;) If you have any farm stores that serve the agriculture sector, they will sell in bulk and at decent prices. Farms have working cats and those cats need to be fed. Presumably the work they do is ridding the farm of rodents. *So why do they need extra food? *Oh, wait, I know why. *Holidays and personal days. *The UFWA -- United Feline Workers of America. *Never mind. The farmers make sure the furry hired hands get fed. Claws can give the term 'strike' a whole new meaning... -- Cheers, Bev ================================================== =============== "There's an apocryphal (I hope not !) story about a Bristol bike thief found cold, wet and bedraggled one morning, D locked by the neck to a local bridge." * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *-- Anon Working cats doing their job properly always need extra feed...because there are no mice left. TMT |
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Where do you get your best buys in cat food?
"Dave Garland" wrote
cshenk wrote: That 40# bag is probably totally USA generated and decent quality with none of the problems the overseas stuff has had. I'm not sure one can assume that. The melamine problem in 2007, a lot of USA brands were affected. It's a global market, and manufacturers order ingredients from wherever the deal is best. Yes, but the big companies (purina etc) arent what he's getting. It;s a local feed store I gather. Unlikely the contract that out. Worth asking though. |
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