Bad Cat Food

Hills, the maker of Science Diet has recalled one of its DRY cat food brands. Likewise, Purina recalled some Alpo brand dog food - with certain date codes.

Well I decided to read the ingredients of the two brands of cat food currently in use here. Purina "One" food for fat orange cats, and Eukanuba kitten food for little furry cats.

Eukanuba dry foods contain NO wheat gluten. At all. In fact, the dry foods are not even made by Menu Foods. So I concluded that Cleo's kitten food is in fact safe.

The Purina One food for fat orange adult cats who like to bite if you do the slightest thing to upset them (FRED!) lists "wheat gluten" as an ingredient. Now to be fair the Purina web site says that its dry foods are safe. And Purina is a good company that has been making animal food for a very long time. They make food for pets, farm animals, and even zoo animals. I have seen Purina cat chow, dog chow. CATFISH chow, monkey chow, and so on. Everything.

in other words, Purina is a company that has a lot to loose by risking its brand name. The company says that its dry foods are safe, and that only the "wet" Alpo with specific date and plant codes are now part of the massive recall. So I tend to believe them.

However, I concluded to stop using Purina "One" dry cat food. I will go back to the store and buy some Eukanuba dry food for fat adult cats. Fred is on a diet, and the other two adult cats are as well - even if they are not fat. Gigi the calico cat is not at all fat. Sake the long haired siamese looking cat is not skinny, but not fat. She is actually at the top end of what her weight range should be. Fred is the fat ass of the bunch. I will use Eukanuba until this "wheat gluten" thing blows over.

In other news, the flea market was OK. I looked at a bunch of junk. Some of it was good junk, some was just the garden variety junk. I did pick up a few little things. Like a new tackle box for lures. Now I have two tackle boxes! One for hooks and leader wire and swivels and sleeves and weights and sabiki rigs and shit. The other is for lures, plugs, spoons, and other assorted artificial baits. Slick.

I also got this "magic cloth" stuff. It is some sort of super "micro fiber" with magical properties that trap dirt without using any cleaning type chemicals. The gut doing the demo of the stuff scribbled on glass using a crayon, and then using just the magic cloth dampened with water cleaned it off. Just like that. So I bought two pieces of this magic cloth for $10.

And what do you know, it works! The glass sliding doors are filthy. Terrible. Horrible. But just like the guy said, one cloth with some ordinary water cleaned it up. No Windex or anything. And it worked on the truck windshield too. The inside of the windshield was in need of a cleaning. Not anymore however. The magic cloth is pretty cool.