Dangers of feeding commercial (Purina) pet food

debbie560 · 2nd March 2012, 09:05 AM

Originally Posted by candes

No one is stepping in because you will all turn them into public enemy number two. Eggshells remember?

As far as I am concerned, this issue is over. And all I ask is to not be censored. That is all I am whining for. Can you all promise me this one small thing? If you do, I will shut up.

If that what you think Candes, then think it, PM's as you stated in your previous quotes what did it go like 1...2....3...4.... have told their own story! AND no one other than you and the "new member" have quoted because you have done this before... on other topics.

No one has censored you and no one has censored anyone else, I am, like you entitled to show information and photos of my cats being fed the way I feed them, I do not tell ANYONE who has not adoped a kitten or a cat from me how to feed their cat/kitten.

Its personal choice.

What I expect of my new owners as would any other good breeder who sells kittens and actually cares about their wellbeing, is to follow the diet sheet given to them when they take the cat home, as this is what the cat has been used to while at my home, if they later chose to feed another product thats their choice and this should be done gradually not right away.

I know one lady who recently bought a British that starved himself, he lost over half his body weight because he would not eat the buiscuits he was offered, he was also fed by another breeder not me BARF.

There are pro and cons about every discussion. You had a bad experience and jumped on me and my comments and my photos. But you are the only one that got NASTY Candes..

There is no egg shells, people just cant' be bothered with it, because you disagree anyway.

You have quoted with your 'New Member" so many posts between your selves, that could have been kept to PM or hey we live in the 21st Century try the phone..

This is the only reason I feel people have not quoted. Plus the nastyness within.

Do what you have to Candes, I am far to busy and to old to be playing your games.... but you are on your own... as stated now twice I have re read my comments and there is nothing nasty in them, there is no personal attack on you or the "new Member"

**Bethy_boo** · 2nd March 2012, 09:47 AM

I actually agree that people do not enter this discussion due to being lynched...from both sides. This thread is ugly and personal. I suggest that people post an article or information and discuss the article/information only. Personal experience is helpful to a point, but from watching this topic for a long time it is clear that you can have a happy healthy cat on a varied array of diets (maybe not a purina diet?) and there is no clear winner, so it comes down to personal choice.
Not everyone is into BARF, and that's OK.

I think you (Debbie/Candes/Catslave) need to have a good hard look at the way in which you are coming across on this forum, it is not a welcome or helpful place when you are behaving in this manner.

And that's my rant...

**MickB** · 2nd March 2012, 10:14 AM

Enough already!
Whatever you feed your cats, it could always be worse.

If anyone wants more info on my new "MickyB MickyD" diet please pm me.

Dangers of feeding commercial (Purina) pet food-mickb-mickyd.jpg

Oh and don't tell me the BurgerKing diet is better...i won't hear it.

(see how silly you are all being

**MickB** · 2nd March 2012, 10:33 AM

Please accept my apologies for my last post.
It was purely a (misguided) attempt to make you all smile this morning.
There was no malice intended and I'm sorry :(

**Helen & John** · 2nd March 2012, 02:28 PM

Originally Posted by MickB

Enough already!
Whatever you feed your cats, it could always be worse.

If anyone wants more info on my new "MickyB MickyD" diet please pm me.

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Oh and don't tell me the BurgerKing diet is better...i won't hear it.

(see how silly you are all being

Hahaha love it but Mick burger king fries are better!!!!!
I must get a shot of the Roxynandiet..........Try eating a friday night chat with her paw about.........I've got a lovely curry paw print on a pair of my fav jeans!! Not a diet for your georg Nanuk though xx

**Helen & John** · 2nd March 2012, 02:37 PM

Originally Posted by candes

And that's your opinion that you are entitled to. You just have to be in my shoes. I have been here a long time and always felt that I have to walk on eggshells every day that I am here. Always being careful not to say something that will erupt another tizzy. And that post that I did, I felt was "safe". I thought it was refreshing to find an article neither pro nor con and was proud of my find. Something that both "sides" could finally agree upon. Well my peace loving feel good post was treated like the antichrist. And I too would have welcomed a response to the "offending thread" vs what has gone on.

And your last comment was not nice. I feel this needs to be cleared up once and for all. When a well meaning article causes such a big stir, there is stil an underlining problem. It will not just magically disappear.

Candes I stopped using this forum as much when you became active on here again........you left alone for a while after the fuss over ncarver if I recall correctly.
If there is a point made that does not fit into your view you bombard the thread and do come across as very forceful. I agree that I may not agree with some of the points made by others I do not think that a public forum is the place for the responses that I have seen you give, others agree that there are other points of view that are not theirs but once you have got the bit between your teeth you do not seem to have any care other than getting your point across.

Please remember that this is my point of view and not anyone elses, but if I feel this way maybe others do too, lets keep the forum a happy place.

**dave** · 2nd March 2012, 03:19 PM

Candes, I ask you to look back at the start of this thread. Imagine you are new to maine coons looking for a friendly forum you can engage in friendly chat to people about the breed, whether you agree with HowlinBobs opening post or not, as soon as you get to your reply, I'm sure most people including myself will find it very negative and feel unnecessarily defensive. The whole 'you said this' 'you said that' thing is not helping anyone so I ask kindly to be more careful what you are writing in future as this is by many times, not the first time your replies are needlesly aggressive. I hope if you read the start of the thread again from an outsiders perspective you will see what I mean.

**deb's_boys** · 2nd March 2012, 05:02 PM

Originally Posted by dave

Candes, I ask you to look back at the start of this thread. Imagine you are new to maine coons looking for a friendly forum you can engage in friendly chat to people about the breed, whether you agree with HowlinBobs opening post or not, as soon as you get to your reply, I'm sure most people including myself will find it very negative and feel unnecessarily defensive. The whole 'you said this' 'you said that' thing is not helping anyone so I ask kindly to be more careful what you are writing in future as this is by many times, not the first time your replies are needlesly aggressive. I hope if you read the start of the thread again from an outsiders perspective you will see what I mean.

I was very confused by what I read throughout this whole thread, nothing to do with the original topic 'Dangers of feeding commercial food' which I agree is always a potential problem that we as cat owners need to be kept apprised of.

As a new member to this forum, I feel that one on one disputes need to be kept private and not brought out to the forum for all to see. A lot of what was said here is obviously coming from a history that I as a new member have no clue on and if I was a more sensitive person I would have left and asked for my membership to be deleted, but, as I am a seasoned pet owner and not new to forums and the chemistry between people I will remain and just let my discernment be known to the rest of the membership.

**Antonia** · 2nd March 2012, 06:51 PM

This will be my only post in this thread.

I kind of feel responsible because I was the one who first brought up the subject of raw feeding… a long time ago in a galaxy far away, or so it seems to me now. After a while I baled out of the debate for several reasons, personal reasons as well as because I felt the debate had become tedious and unproductive. Though I will always appreciate it that a number of people on here firmly stood their ground…

To the new members who are wondering (rightly so IMO) what all the fuss is about, I would like to say: if you can find the time, please read the original thread – the one I started. You will see the debate was initially very friendly and congenial too. In fact it used to be quite a fun thread. Sadly, it wasn’t to stay that way.

I hope this helps new members understand what happened. Now this is off my chest I am leaving this thread again.

Anna

**dave** · 2nd March 2012, 07:02 PM

I'm pretty tied up workwise as having to prepare for trip over to the U.S tomorrow, sadly to New Jersey and not to Maine tho which would have been nice to see. Anyway when I get time I will go through all threads like this and remove the posts which I do not deem to be useful for visitors, so don't be offended if your post is removed, its nothing personal.