Mocha Knows

After the recent pet food scare, I'm glad that Mocha is one picky eater.  When we first got her, there was a list of brands of cat food that her adoption center recommended.  We were also told not to give her store brands like Friskies, etc., because they're like "fast food" for cats -- tastes great, but not exactly healthy.  Of course the recommended brands were the more expensive ones, but one of the least (at the time) was Iams so that's what we fed her.  About 6 months later, she stopped eating her cat food, so I figured she was just being a finicky cat and tried another brand, which she was fine with.  Since we still had Iams, I tried to sneak one in from time to time, but she wouldn't have it.  I would give her the speech on how she shouldn't be picky and that there are cats starving in the streets and third world countries, and she should consider herself lucky that she even gets fed at all, but my lecture fell on deaf kitty ears.

I since learned that Iams changed their formula or something to make it not as good as it was when it first came out on the market.  I don't know if Mocha noticed this, but she certainly didn't want to eat it anymore - the dry nor the canned product.  Turns out that Iams is one of the brands (out of several) of pet food that has been recalled.  I don't mean to pick on Iams, but it was the only one on the list that my cat used to eat and am glad she hasn't in years.  Maybe there is something to my cat's finickyness.  However, if she starts insisting on canned tuna...

Mocha Kitty

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