My cat's breath smells like cat food.

[mdhunter]

/ralph

Seriously. It does. She's on my lap, swatting at my sweatshirt's hood ties, breathing right in my face as I type this.

I was inspired by the vegetarian threads here today. I am one, and have a theory.

Your propensity to be a vegetarian is directly proportional to the intensity with which you feel the desire to physically eat your companion, or any, animal because you love them so much. It's true, I physically want to eat her she's so adorable. And since I can't find any meaningful distinction between my cats and, say, a pig, I can't eat any of them.

Wow, I may have to switch their food, this is pretty stong...

[KamaAina]

1. I love cats nearly as much as that.

It's true, I physically want to eat her she's so adorable.

Purrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr....

I love cats so much, in fact, that I take my approach to the animal kingdom from them. Cats aren't vegetarians. They can't be; a cat fed a purely vegetarian diet will go blind, because cats can't synthesize a key amino acid.

And so, if cats, my favorite land animal (gotta give a shoutout to the dolphins :-) ) aren't vegetarians, why should I be?

Admittedly, I never desired to physically eat any of the many kitties who used to enrich my life. She must be someting special. Meeeeowwwww!

[mdhunter]

5. I guess the difference is...

that they can't be vegetarian, while we easily can.

Not that I'm proselytizing or condemning you - you are of course free to eat meat, there's nothing wrong with it when it's done sensibly and mindfully. Vegofascism is not at all my style.

For me, though, I just can't see any difference between cats (especially the big, African savannah type, cats - my favorites, along with polar bears) and any animal that people have decided are fit for consumption. It's essentially Singer's argument.

Anyway, tell yours, if you're still lucky enough to have any around, that Basil and Tamari say hello.

[LynneSin]

2. What type of Cat Food are you serving them?

My cats eat the high end cat food and Abbott especially has pleasant breath to smell!

[mdhunter]

3. You might laugh, but...

It's Chicken Soup for the Cat Lover's Soul brand.

I had been feeding them Natures Choice, or Natural Choice... something like that, which my local independent shop stopped carrying. They had replaced it with this, which they said was comparable and slightly better. I wasn't going to argue.

The other option was a little to eco-organic-extreme, even for me. Honestly, it had soy, blueberries and other (what I thought) crazy things in it. I thought they shouldn't be eating better than me.

Anyway, they both seem to really like. I have two cats one gets a light formula, the other the regular cat formula.

http://www.chickensoupforthepetloverssoul.com/

[Salviati]

4. My ethics force me to be a strict carnivore...

After all, any animal must kill to eat, be it killing another animal or killing some plant. What did those plants ever do to anyone to deserve being eaten (Exceptions for Venus flytraps...)

/kidding

:silly:

[mdhunter]

6. It's true, actually...

those little green bastards do steal our sunlight!

[Warren Stupidity]

7. but my dog's breath smells like dead fish...

worst halitosis I ever smelled. I still love her but it is atrocious. Her buddy eats the same crap she eats and her breath doesn't stink at all.