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Cat Forum / General Topics / December 2005Do we give too much pet food to our pets?
Take a look at this photo? After seeing it, you have to ask yourself: Do we feed our pets too much? I think that the unhealthy lifestyle of humans is increasingly affecting our pets and that they are becoming lazier and more obese with every new day. http://www.igman.com/misc/Do-we-give-too-much-pet-food-to-our-pets With the US market for pet food exceeding billions of dollars the pet food producers and distributors are becoming more and more powerful. In turn, they pour more money into marketing and that in turn makes customers buy more and more pet food. In the end, pets consume the stuff the owners buy and they become more obese and less happy animals. So, we would like to make our pets happier by giving them more food, but in fact we make them sadder because we damage their health. Any thoughts? Best, Vasko Subject:Do we give too much pet food to our pets? Couple of problems here one do you know what a Maine coon cat is they get that big normally second read the story about them http://www.snopes.com/photos/animals/bigcat2.asp# > Take a look at this photo? After seeing it, you have to ask yourself: > Do we feed our pets too much? [quoted text clipped - 22 lines] > > Subject:Do we give too much pet food to our pets? I don't think that my cat being fat would ever make her like 4 feet long. That cat wasn't just chubby, it was large in general. My cat is about 30% over weight, but again, she's still not growing longer. I don't think that pic is a good example of pet obesity. Beth > Couple of problems here > one do you know what a Maine coon cat is they get that big normally [quoted text clipped - 27 lines] >> >> Subject:Do we give too much pet food to our pets? >Any thoughts? Photoshop? The cat doesn't look particularly fat.  SignatureT.E.D. (tdavis@gearbox.maem.umr.edu) > Take a look at this photo? After seeing it, you have to ask yourself: > Do we feed our pets too much? No I don't... I have to ask myself what kind of idiot believes an obviously artificial photograph. <snip> > Any thoughts? I bet you don't own an animal. actually that is a true story according to snopes the picture I am talking about > actually that is a true story according to snopes In the borning days of the third millennium, NMR wrote: >the picture I am talking about >> actually that is a true story according to snopes The picture is undoctored. Check the URL given for Snopes. http://www.snopes.com/photos/animals/bigcat2.asp#photo It's just a Maine Coon Cat all stretched out and fluffed up. -- Brian Merchant Puritanism didn't keep the puritans from sinning, it just kept them from enjoying it. --Father Joe Breighner, Country Roads : The picture is undoctored. Check the URL given for Snopes. : [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] : -- : Brian Merchant That's quite some amount of cat! LOL A beautiful one though, also the other one on the sofa with him. carola > The picture is undoctored. Check the URL given for Snopes. > > http://www.snopes.com/photos/animals/bigcat2.asp#photo > > It's just a Maine Coon Cat all stretched out and fluffed up. Yeah and the cat is being lifted too easily. A cat that large is going to be heavy....I know....I've had too many large cats over the years. The women in the photos are holding something light (a blanket? a small dog? a baby? and a large cat is photo shopped over it. I also noticed this on their site: did a quick math and concluded that that is much more than 90% of global population spends on human food (per capita per month). what better way to prove that than a fake large cat photo? In the borning days of the third millennium, DW wrote: >> The picture is undoctored. Check the URL given for Snopes. >> [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] >going to >be heavy....I know....I've had too many large cats over the years. Probbaly only about 25 pounds or so. I tried this same pose with our cat, and he stretches quite a ways pretty easily. And he's just a normal sized tabby. If he was the size of a Maine Coon with that much hair, I could reproduce that pose easily. >The women in the photos are holding something light (a blanket? a >small dog? a baby? and a large cat is photo shopped over it. Did you read the Snopes article? They actually found the woman and saw the cat. His name is Riley. >I also noticed this on their site: > did a quick math and concluded that that is much more than 90% of >global population spends on human food (per capita per month). >what better way to prove that than a fake large cat photo? The original site just used the picture. Snopes.com is very well known and respected for confirming/debunking myths and rumors. -- Brian Merchant Puritanism didn't keep the puritans from sinning, it just kept them from enjoying it. --Father Joe Breighner, Country Roads > Probbaly only about 25 pounds or so. I tried this same pose with > our cat, and he stretches quite a ways pretty easily. And > he's just a normal sized tabby. If he was the size of a Maine Coon > with that much hair, I could reproduce that pose easily. My brother in law has a dog exactly that same size as that cat. It weighs 75 pounds. His wife can't carry the dog. When she walks it, she doesn't walk it, it walks her. You show me a woman who can lift a dog/cat that is that heavy and i'll show you a woman who goes to the gym and lifts wieghts. The women the pictures don't have the muscles needede to lift a 75 pound cat. > Did you read the Snopes article? They actually found the woman and > saw the cat. His name is Riley. Yes I did. A woman that size isn't going to be able to easily carry a 75+ pount cat. I have a relative who has a dog exactly that size. Let me put it this way: she doesn't walk the dog, the dog walks her. > The original site just used the picture. Snopes.com is very well > known and respected for confirming/debunking myths and rumors. And what Snopes seems to have missed is the site is slamming us in the US for spending money on our cats while people are starving in the world. I usually find Snopes a good source. They got the wool puled over their eyes on this one. it is a 24 pound cat not a 75 lb cat >> Probbaly only about 25 pounds or so. I tried this same pose with >> our cat, and he stretches quite a ways pretty easily. And [quoted text clipped - 26 lines] > I usually find Snopes a good source. They got the wool > puled over their eyes on this one. sorry didn't finish the thread before it is a 24 pound cat not a 75 lb cat there is a difference between a 24 lb dog and a 75 lb dog in both physical aspects. My daughter is about her size and our cat dumpling a 15 lb solid black long hair stretches almost out like that when she holds him you have never had a cat like that before they are that big when they are full grown and stretched out I always knick named them baby lions :-) > it is a 24 pound cat not a 75 lb cat > [quoted text clipped - 28 lines] >> I usually find Snopes a good source. They got the wool >> puled over their eyes on this one. > sorry didn't finish the thread before > > it is a 24 pound cat not a 75 lb cat there is a difference between a 24 lb > dog and a 75 lb dog in both physical aspects. Where does it say 24 pounds? My daughter is about her > size and our cat dumpling a 15 lb solid black long hair stretches almost > out like that when she holds him > you have never had a cat like that before they are that big when they are > full grown and stretched out I always knick named them baby lions :-) I had a cat that was 30 pounds a number of years ago. The cat in this picture is not a 25 pound cat, add 50 pounds to that. Seriously, just type Maine coon+images into Google and you'll find everything you need to know. The feline pictured is 2-year-old Maine Coon named Riley, photographed in the arms of his owner, Martha. According to Martha, Riley has lost a bit of weight recently, but he weighed about 24 lbs. at the time the picture displayed above was taken. Here are some additional photos of Riley with Martha, and a picture of Riley with his sister, Callie: >> sorry didn't finish the thread before >> [quoted text clipped - 11 lines] > I had a cat that was 30 pounds a number of years ago. The cat in this > picture is not a 25 pound cat, add 50 pounds to that. > The feline pictured is 2-year-old Maine Coon named Riley, photographed in > the arms of his owner, Martha. According to Martha, Riley has lost a bit of > weight recently, but he weighed about 24 lbs. at the time the picture > displayed above was taken. Here are some additional photos of Riley with > Martha, and a picture of Riley with his sister, Callie: We have a 7 year-old 24-pound female who eats a meager 1/2 cup of Hill's Prescripiton® r/d dry food a day. For the uninformed, r/d is a calorie reduced cat food with high nutrient and high-fiber value. According to the labeling--and in line with other experience I've had with using r/d, she should be a trim 12 or 13 pounder. Go figger. Her bed partner gets less than that and remains a trim guy at about 13 pounds. --Catmandu > The feline pictured is 2-year-old Maine Coon named Riley, photographed in > the arms of his owner, Martha. According to Martha, Riley has lost a bit of > weight recently, but he weighed about 24 lbs. at the time the picture > displayed above was taken. Here are some additional photos of Riley with > Martha, and a picture of Riley with his sister, Callie: Let me put it this way: the only place a cat that large is going to weight 25 pounds in under the gravitational forces of the moon. Here on planet earth that is 75+ pound cat. I challenge anyone to prove to me it is a 25 pound cat.....and i'm not going to take the word of this woman. She probably claims her weight is half her actual weight. There is no way on earth a cat with that much mass can weigh in at 25 pounds. You may buy it if you want to, I on the other hand am not buying it. I may have been born at night, I wasn't born last night. >> The feline pictured is 2-year-old Maine Coon named Riley, >> photographed in the arms of his owner, Martha. According to Martha, [quoted text clipped - 17 lines] > You may buy it if you want to, I on the other hand am not buying it. > I may have been born at night, I wasn't born last night. What mass? It's all fur. No way is it more than 30 pounds. My cat was fat at 25 pounds and he was pretty long, he stretches out to about 3 feet long, not so long as that one though. That cat is skinny -- aside from all the fur. DW you can believe the experts at snope they went to visit the family and prove it so they saw it with their own eyes. If you can't believe that then there is no sense trying to get you to believe it. Except go find a Maine coon cat then you can state your disbelief :-( >>> The feline pictured is 2-year-old Maine Coon named Riley, >>> photographed in the arms of his owner, Martha. According to Martha, [quoted text clipped - 23 lines] > pretty long, he stretches out to about 3 feet long, not so long as that > one though. That cat is skinny -- aside from all the fur. : > There is no way on earth a cat with that much mass can weigh in at : > 25 pounds. [quoted text clipped - 7 lines] : pretty long, he stretches out to about 3 feet long, not so long as that : one though. That cat is skinny -- aside from all the fur. Although it's a pretty daft discussion I add my opinion as well: The cat is slightly overweight, a rather large MC, but still within normality. around 25lb. carola > What mass? It's all fur. You're forgetting the bones. There is lots of bone mass there. That's horrible! > That's horrible! Did you really forget there are bones, muscle, internal organs, etc. under neat all that fur? Maybe you needed to pay attantion during basic biology. > actually that is a true story according to snopes Yep. There are fake ones out there of big cats, (according to Snopes) but this one in particular is not. How they judge that I have no idea. > Take a look at this photo? After looking at this photo, one word comes to mind..... Photoshop. (Particularly on the photo on the left). > Take a look at this photo? I was just looking at this site again. Definitely photo shop. Look at the thrid picture on the bottom of the page. I'd bet she was holding a 75 pound dog and they photo shopped it with a cat. >>Take a look at this photo? > [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] > I'd bet she was holding a 75 pound dog and they photo shopped it > with a cat. It's a doctored photo, ppl. I can't believe how thick you people are.. You've got a lovely poster who gives you all the information you need to see that yes, it's a real cat called a Maine coon yet you still whine and say it's not real. Well i can tell you I owned a maine coon and she was bigger than the cat in the photo. It is NOT a doctored photo ppl! Maybe it's an idea to actually read the posts before going off on a tangent. > It is NOT a doctored photo ppl! > Maybe it's an idea to actually read the posts before going off on a tangent. Let me put it this way: i've had lots of cats over the years, i've read all the posts, i've read snopes, i've seen all the pictures. I still maintain someone is having fun with photo shop, first of all that woman can't possibly lift a cat thar large unless she was a body builder. She don't have the muscles of a body builder. Sorry I don't buy that that is a real cat. actually they aren't as heavy as you may think... Consider the fact that a lot of them is fur...Mine weighed no more than a small toddler..and i have no trouble picking them up. > actually they aren't as heavy as you may think... Consider the fact that a > lot of them is fur...Mine weighed no more than a small toddler..and i have > no trouble picking them up. umm.. MC's are heavy cats... 15-20 lbs compared with 7-12ish for a standard moggie. I think it's fake because the cat doesn't cast a shadow (of course that might just be the cat <grin>) >> actually they aren't as heavy as you may think... Consider the fact >> that a lot of them is fur...Mine weighed no more than a small [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] > standard moggie. I think it's fake because the cat doesn't cast a > shadow (of course that might just be the cat <grin>) And even 25 pounds is probably not a terrible burden for a woman to hold (if he doesn't squirm too much). I have a cat who weighed 25 pounds at one point and he stretches out to 3 foot from head to tail and he was FAT, not long and lean like the cat in that photo. > Take a look at this photo? After seeing it, you have to ask yourself: > Do we feed our pets too much? After looking at this site one thing becomes painfully obvious. This person apparently lives in Croatia and hates the fact that people in the world are starving to death whil people in the US spend moeny on their pets. Well maybe instead of complaining about the US: look at your leader of xxxx cournty (with thousands/millions are starving while a king/ premier/president/etc. lives in a castle, and screwing his own people. Saddam was a classic exampte. Hiis people were starving, did he feed them? No. He spent billions on buidling castles, buidling WMDS, stashing money around the world (he is one of the richest men in the world, has billions stashed around the world.) Millions starved under Saddam, he spent who know how many millions/billions building huge castles. (Some of these castles are the size of Washington DC). I'm not a fan of GWB., but I'm also not going to give up my cats.3. http://www.igman.com/misc/Why-Do-Pets-Get-Pet-Health-Insurance/ BTW, the site is registered to Grossman & Assoc. Savoy IL, they "sell" Commodity Software, Feed Software, Accounting Software, Management Software, Merchandising Software, Grain, Feed, Fertilizer, Peanut, Rice, Seed, Ethanol, Software, Accounting, Management, Merchandising, Mill none of which is on their site. Right now it seems to only be used to slam pet owners in the US. Since Grossman seems to want to slam pet owners then maybe as a pet owner I should ask what pet stores/pet brands/ etc. use this company who has people who want to slam pet owners. |
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