The only places I know of around here to get pet food is either Pet Supplies Plus (my usual source) or PetSmart. Jewel has a small selection that costs waay to much, and I don't know of any organic coops here at all--we have the usual chains (Jewel, Dominicks, TJ, Whole Foods) as well as some small grocery stores that are privately owned, but no coops.
There are about a million specialty pet stores in Chicago proper from what I can tell. It's like every single person who has the idea that they should open a business decides that business should be a petstore. I don't know how the market supports them all (I suspect it doesn't). Anyway, it got in my subconscious and I had a dream (the night after I road my bike 100 miles and was sleeping in a school gym)that I opened a chain of petstores and there were different stores for each kind of pet. The one for cats was called "The Cats of SomethingPlace, Jr." and the one for birds was called "Bird Up!" which is the proposed name of my new band!
My cats get the diabetes food--wet and dry. I guess they are okay on it? They like to eat it anyway. And they are 14 and seem to have their wits about them as much as they ever did.
Eighty messages on cat food! It's my motherfuckin' luckiest day ever!
I'm going to have to start reciting baseball draft picks from the fourth round down now just to maintain my sanity.
Thanks a lot, cat people! Look at the psychic damage you've inflicted on me.
Pet supplies is a HUGE business. Conventional wisdom says that peeps like me, without kids, still have money to spend and affection to give. So we give it to our pets.
It's true for me, anyway.
Conventional wisdom says that peeps like me, without kids, still have money to spend and affection to give. So we give it to our pets.
I do not have money to spend because I have spent it all at the Vet's!
We feed our dogs Iams. We get the fat dog version, which is good for our lazy dog and then we just give the hyper dog proportionally more food. The Vet tells us they are very healthy dogs so it all seems good.
I do not have money to spend because I have spent it all at the Vet's!
Vet bills are not fun. I'm happy that our beagle seems to have stopped ripping out claws.
The dog gets Pedigree. She's fifteen and going strong. I'm not changing a thing.
Interesting --
Scientist claims that animals can tell right from wrong
(although that's a little misleading IMHO. The animals are exhibiting characteristics that comport with what western society thinks is right and wrong.)
We use Wellness, but had to switch the kittens off of it as it was too rich for them (litterbox issues, ahem). Both are almost 1 so we may try it again and see what happens.
Scientist claims that animals can tell right from wrong
...and then they go ahead and do what's wrong anyway. Or perhaps my pets are just in the Evil League of Pet Evil.
Also, I had *no* idea that Iams was crap. The vet always says the pets are robust, so I figure they're okay.
