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My neighbour has two Great Danes; lumbering great things who can peer in my windows as they walk by.
They can vacuum the food out of a cat's bowl without breaking stride, I've noticed. This is expensive, as my cats eat a pH-control diet cat food that's available only from veterinarians.
Rather
than continue feeding his canine quarterhorses cat chow I figured it would be better to develop a cheap dog food, based on rolled oats, meat and bone meal and some sort of industrial starch glue to hold it all together.
With clusters weighing in at 2lb (1kg) each it would slow the dog down a bit, soak up water to keep them full for longer and deter the possums who also chow down on my cats' dinner, every night.
Shaped like Tbone steaks, rabbits, cats, shoes and bones... as if the dogs care.
Big Dig Gondolas
http://www.halfbake...ig_20Dig_20Gondolas
Bag Day Grandma [hippo, Nov 18 2004]
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Wouldn't the obvious solution be to feed the possums to the dogs? |
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Little bastards are protected, by law. $5000 fine for knocking one off the perch. |
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The idea is that these will be set out next to the cat dish and the hounds and 'possums will be attracted to this offering instead of the cat food? |
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Yep. Make 'em irresistible to the little buggers. |
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there must be a way to allow your cats to eat but prevent bigger muzzles. like squirrel proof bird feeders. |
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Or feed your cat to the dogs, no more expensive cat foods... just make sure [po] never finds out. |
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Come a little closer, [Pericles], this hemlock shall taste as sweet as the first sip of last summer's wine. My cats are family. They even have their own room in the house, for their toilet. |
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I feel stupid asking, but why not feed the cats indoors? |
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[po] - you're right, dogs are never full. They'd eat till they vomit, then eat that given half a chance. |
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Given the choice between oats/glue/bonemeal or pH controlled catfood, I know what I'd prefer. Can't speak for great danes, though. |
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i) A friend's labrador eats anything that his cat sicks up.
ii) When she was a child, my wife had a boxer dog which ate sand, brown paper bags, and pieces of brick.
I don't think that dogs are particularly choosy regarding diet.
(BTW, I didn't mean that my wife was my wife when she was a child; that would be just ... wrong.) |
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I might have said this before (in which case I apologise) but I have a cat that loves a nibble of soap - it worries me somewhat. |
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Nastiest thing our dog ever ate: pantyhose. Results had him singing "I've got the world on a string..." |
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Possums are protected by the government? Those ugly little feckers...I ran over one just last month. Not on purpose. He just happened to be under my car's tire at the wrong time. |
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Possums in Australia are protected. There are some circumstances under which they may be culled, but that's about it. If you have one living in your roof and you trap it you are allowed to release it (but no more than 50metres from the point of captures). |
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Rayford... it's not often* a post makes me yell "aargh" out loud, but _that_ was nasty. |
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*unless [benfrost] is the poster... |
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