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Whenever I feed my cat, she always leaves some, and it gets dry and nasty and she won't eat it, and then I have to get some more out of the can, which has of course gotten dry and nasty, so I'm out 1 can of food and the cat is still hungry so heres my idea, cat food in a tube! Simply the food would be
in a large tube, like a big toothpaste tube (wet food of course), and when the idiot, sorry cat, wants some food, I squrit out just enough to shut her up, sorry feed her, put the top back on and stick it in the fridge or wherever, no fuss no, no muss, just DON'T brush your teeth with this stuff!
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read quarterbaker's annotation! [xenzag, Jun 13 2009]
another qarterbaker idea
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Can cat food spray be far behind? [Gamma48, Jun 13 2009]
Vita Gravy
http://www.petguys..../-000433911960.html
A few drops on dry cat food works wonders. [Amos Kito, Jun 14 2009]
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I can see lots of food types in tubes like these, animal and human alike. The only problem would be the waste. You can never quite get all the toothpaste out of the tube. I'm sure that would annoy some people. If you made the caps large enough to put a small label on, you could have part of your fridge/cabinet setup in a honeycomb to hold them all. |
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Add a cat-activated lever pump to the tube...when the cat's hungry, it can push the pump. The difficulty of pumping can be set to limit overeating. |
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What about a syringe? A cylindrical tube with a plunger wouldn't waste any, and it'd be refillable and maybe useable by the cat.
Your description reminds me of a time when i had headlice and was using a toothpaste-tube like dispenser of brown anti-louse shampoo, and my cat threw up. What came out of her mouth was rather similar to what came out of the tube. |
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there's always the dried food that some cats actually prefer - just make sure there's always plenty of fresh water available as well. now that I'm merely one cat mad, I buy fluffy the individual packs which she polishes off in one go. |
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I thought the dried stuff was bad news for their kidneys, even with water. |
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No cat ever suffered from a drop of the hard stuff. |
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I agree with xenzag. In fact, hard, crunchy food is better for them anyway because it exercises their jaws and cleans their teeth. And, given that cats are notorious for infectious bites, they need all the cleaning they can get. The canned food is good once in a while as a treat, but even then it's better to mix it in with dry food. I always fed my old cat Wicket dry food, and he was the toughest pussy in the neighborhood. I saw him take on 3 other cats who invaded our yard once, and he kicked the shit out of 'em. Had some nasty battle scars and open wounds from scrapping with a pit bull across the street, too. I doctored 'im up, gave him some children's Motrin, and he was fine. Let me tell you, that cat had balls. Twice he took a dump on my ex-wife's foot when she scolded him and picked him up by the scruff of the neck. And he set "traps" for her, pissing in places where it would pool, like her favorite spot on our faux-leather couch. And I fully attribute his tough-as-nails demeanor to his dry food. One of my greatest regrets in my life is choosing her over that cat. In hindsight, I should've kicked her ass to the curb and kept the cat. He was awesome! |
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The tubes you get for silicon are pretty good, with
the reusable trigger framework. I am actually happy
when the bath has a leak and I can get the gun out
and have a squirt, so I think it would make meal
times more fun for the feeder. |
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How about dry cat food in pellet form, maybe about 5.56mm diameter ...... ? |
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Serving cat food in NATO standard, eh? I likes it! |
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"Fast food" for cats. In this case, fast = about 1000m/sec. Here, kitty, kitty .... |
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Tube cat food: Good idea. Syringe maybe a better iteration. But ibuprofen for cats is not a good idea - you can not dose them down like they were little people. |
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For some odd reason, the exclamation mark at the
end of the sub-title makes me laugh. |
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Like; CAT FOOD IN A TUBE!!!!
HA, TAKE THAT YOU NAYSAYERS! |
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Put it in a caulk gun tube and I'll buy it. |
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hmm... wet cat food in an edible impermeable grape-sized shell, kitty ravioli. |
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// The tubes you get for silicon are pretty good, with the reusable trigger framework //
AKA
// a caulk gun tube // |
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Actually, you could do this by taking an empty tube and placing a pack of 'meat-paste-in-a-plastic- wrapper-fastened-at-the -ends-with-a-metal-clip' inside. |
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Hmmm ... what part of the cat do you poke the nozzle in, then ? |
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Our cats [thank heaven] both like kitty kibble, so this isn't so
much of a problem for us. Still, good idea [+] |
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As a special add-on for the pampered kitty, catfood manufacturers could sell decorative piping tips for the tubes (similar to those used by pastry chefs to apply icing to cakes) so you can make the food look really special: write holiday greetings to your feline friend, make little foodie flowers, etc. |
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..... fill their horrible little pointy ears with it ...... |
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there's a picture: a Vulcan kittycat... hmm, probably not much difference. |
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