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Do not feed the cat for a few days and let it lose its pickiness!
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We tried that. "Eat it or starve!" and locked him in the house so he couldn't supplement his diet. Three days of sulky, p*ss*d off cat and untouched food later we relented. 
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Tried that too, same effect plus bleeding hands and arms  cats can be complete axeholes... that's why I like them 
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"just eat it, eat it"."They're out to mold, better eat while you can" -- HobbyProggy
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Given how much she scratched and bited I'd say that 8 out of her 6 ends were pointy
GCS d--- s-/++ a- C++++ U+++ P- L- E-- W++ N++ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t++ 5? X R++ tv-- b+ DI+++ D++ G e++>+++ h--- ++>+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
If you think 'goto' is evil, try writing an Assembly program without JMP. -- TNCaver
"When you have eliminated the JavaScript, whatever remains must be an empty page." -- Mike Hankey
"just eat it, eat it"."They're out to mold, better eat while you can" -- HobbyProggy
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Waterboarding or Rendition?
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OriginalGriff wrote: Ours is a picky little sod: He won't touch Felix, he used to eat Whiskas (until
I bought a load of it), he stopped eating Sheba for a few months, but it back on
it now.
Yes, ditto. He's not touching the Sheba chicken and all the dry food is still there, so yes, acts a bit picky. Still, he will eat anything, from small animals from the garden, insulation-foam, raw paprika and anything that smells like food from the garbage-can, regardless of age or state.
OriginalGriff wrote: Generally, they will eat anything once.
The only stuff that is consequently rejected (even at first try) seems to be fruit.
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I've heard large cats have an instinctive chase-kill-eat-sleep set of instructions. Perhaps yours has stronger cat instincts and needs the chase-kill-before-eat sequence. Ours will make a beeline for the foodball as soon as they recover from a play session. Try playing with them then immediately putting down the food.
Also, when our old cat started loosing interest in food, our vet told us that they won't eat something if they can't smell it. Told us to get the smelliest, stinkiest food we could find. Worked.
We can program with only 1's, but if all you've got are zeros, you've got nothing.
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patbob wrote: our vet told us that they won't eat something if they can't smell it
Never noticed, but that might explain why some stuff is ignored (like fresh raw eggs, until they are broken).
Also explains why he has to have the week-old half rotten herring from the trashcan 
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Well, then try Lutefisk. If this isn't smelly enough, then your cat and your vet is playing a joke on you.
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Also treat biscuits for dogs - the ones used to train them - are pretty good. They taste like sugarless integral biscuits, which I kind of like.
The wet food usually found in large cheap cans smells like s*t and I never had the desire to taste it. The good stuff on the other hand tastes much better than some discount food for humans I bought.
GCS d--- s-/++ a- C++++ U+++ P- L- E-- W++ N++ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t++ 5? X R++ tv-- b+ DI+++ D++ G e++>+++ h--- ++>+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
If you think 'goto' is evil, try writing an Assembly program without JMP. -- TNCaver
"When you have eliminated the JavaScript, whatever remains must be an empty page." -- Mike Hankey
"just eat it, eat it"."They're out to mold, better eat while you can" -- HobbyProggy
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I just hope the meat is cooked before tasting it.
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I actually do that once in a while: Eat one or two of the cat treats while I feed them to the cats.
The missus thinks I'm nuts of course. But I figure: Hey, if they were harmful, would I want to feed them to my cats?
Some of them are totally edible and not bad at all. Others taste like sh*t. I try to avoid giving my cats those who taste like sh*t... 
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I'd just like a chance to prove that money can't make me happy.
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If I were her, I'd step out of the queue, to pick up a large bag of the 'nutritionally complete' My Dog food 
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I'm reminded of an old episode of Red Dwarf where this guy chooses to eat canned dog food instead of noodles when down to the last pieces of food. He really hated noodles. Probably the better choice then when it comes to nutrition.
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If you can eat noodles, you can eat dog food. And viceversa. Basically if you can stand noodles you can stand anything short of Bear Grylls stuff.
GCS d--- s-/++ a- C++++ U+++ P- L- E-- W++ N++ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t++ 5? X R++ tv-- b+ DI+++ D++ G e++>+++ h--- ++>+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
If you think 'goto' is evil, try writing an Assembly program without JMP. -- TNCaver
"When you have eliminated the JavaScript, whatever remains must be an empty page." -- Mike Hankey
"just eat it, eat it"."They're out to mold, better eat while you can" -- HobbyProggy
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I'm disappointed you didn't take the opportunity to hump her leg.
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Dunno why you sometimes use 'dog food' to name 'gin'.
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ROTFLMAO! +5!
I needed a good joke today.
If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack.
--Winston Churchill
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What makes you think he was joking?
Will Rogers never met me.
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I don't know that he was joking, but I prefer to think that my fellow CPians are too emotionally mature to play such pranks on strangers.
I could, of course, be wrong.
If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack.
--Winston Churchill
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Nagy Vilmos wrote: What did she think I had an elephant?
That's just silly. She probably thought a nice, wholesome person such as yourself was shopping for his ailing grandmother or donating to a local animal shelter (Tesco's does have a facility to accept such generosity). Oh, wait, it's you ... that would be even madder ... elephant it is.
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Please let this be a true story.
(Not the diet or getting hit by a car part, but the part where you actually told that story...)
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Gads, what I wouldn't give to spend a day at the bar swapping tales with you, lad! Unlike most here, I happen to believe that this really happened; it's something I would have said. It brings to mind an impromptu discussion I started once about raising Naugas in the garage as a child. Back then, their hides were quite in fashion, and as I was ad libbing the details of their care and feeding, a fellow on the stool next to me chimed in, elaborating on his own childhood experiences as an amateur Nauga rancher. We had the entire bar rapt with interest in our tales for several hours, and sadly, neither of us was sober enough to write down all we'd said. That's the pity; it would have been an excellent "Raising Naugas for Dummies" book, and we could both have retired by now on the royalties.
I encourage you to learn from my experience, and get to work on a diet book for the masses, to be sold next to the Globe and National Enquirer at the checkout. 
Will Rogers never met me.
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