So on the way back from Bixby to pick up some fresh corn (4 kinds still left) I stop at the “Food Pyramid” to try to find something Bart the Cat will eat (don’t ask).
I bought three items – Gerber’s Beef Baby Food – he’ll eat that sometimes, and I bought a can of Chicken by the Sea Tuna and a pouch of Whiskas Beef Cat Treats.
As I was checking out, it occured to me how strange the prices were. The can of name brand tuna was 39 cents, the baby food was 89 cents and the cat treats were $1.49. That seems like crazy pricing to me.
To get the tuna, you have to get a boat and some fisherman and some nets etc and that sounds like an expensive deal yet they’re able to sell it for just 39 cents a can?
Don’t know much about baby food, but since it’s Gerbers I figured it was safe – but then the damn cat treats end up costing me $1.49 – what’s up with that?
You figure the beef cat treats are made up out of whatever’s left on the slaughterhouse floor, so why does it cost me more than four times what the name brand tuna costs? Something ain’t right.
I’ll bet Bush is making something off the cat food.
I don’t know why Bush is fucking with the price of cat food, but here’s my story. We had 2 cats – each lived to be 17 years old. For the first 15 1/2 years, they got only dry food – Meow Mix to be specific. Sometimes a table scrap and sometimes a saucer of milk. Never had a problem. Then when the started to get older and wouldn’t eat the dry food so much, we started getting canned stuff. At first it was great and then they started getting picky. Not this, not that and it was a real pain.
We have since gotten 2 cats again and they get nothing but dry food. If they’re hungry they can eat it and if not, no big deal.
Just thought I’d let you know.
Comment by ColoGrego — August 10, 2007 @ 2:20 pm