until the late fourties there were no commerical pet foods at all, iirc...
My grandfather raised hunting dogs of differing kinds, my grandmother had a
milk cow, and made all manner of bread from sourdough and corn meal, there
were buckets that the food was put in, and she fed them in a tractor tire
that was cut in half in the yard, she would put the scraps/leftovers down,
then cover with the oldest milk, Lee
"Julie Bove" > wrote in message
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> "Storrmmee" > wrote in message
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>> so many people are struggling and somebody at food banks finally figured
>> out that people could keep their pets and feed them if they took
>> donations, without that people either surrender their animals or use food
>> they could be eating to give to the animals, which helps nobody's
>> nutrition... don't get me wrong, if your animals will ea t leftovers and
>> they are otherwise healthy it doesn't hurt a single thing to supplement
>> say a dog or cat with mashed potatoes and gravy if they will eat it, but
>> that should only be a supplement, Lee
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> Except if there's onions in there. Funny thing is in the old days that is
> all the animals got. There was no pet food.
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> Maui LOVED mashed potatoes. That was one of her favorite foods. The two
> cats we have now don't seem to recognize human food as being edible to
> them. I have tried to feed them meat. They won't have it. But Ballerina
> has shown interest occasionally in what Angela is eating. She will look
> excited and sniff it. But they never beg like Maui did. Heck, she would
> just hit me with her paw until I gave her what she wanted.
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