Who was it here who just mentioned that they give their cats
Gerber 2nd stage meat food to their cats? I picked up a
jar for a joke to see what Moxie thought. She plowed
through half a jar of turkey and gravy after only a moment's
hesitation. Funny.

No worries, I will not be changing her diet to people food.
However it was a little amusing to me that the cost of the
jar was on par with the price of a similar size of cat food.

nancy

Nancy Young > wrote:

>Who was it here who just mentioned that they give their cats
>Gerber 2nd stage meat food to their cats? I picked up a
>jar for a joke to see what Moxie thought. She plowed
>through half a jar of turkey and gravy after only a moment's
>hesitation. Funny.
>
>No worries, I will not be changing her diet to people food.
>However it was a little amusing to me that the cost of the
>jar was on par with the price of a similar size of cat food.

Vets commonly recommend baby food for cats with appetite
problems (older kidney cats, for example).

Often at the grocery store you will see an obvious cat lady who
does not fit the profile of a young mother buying multiple
units of baby food.

Steve

Steve Pope wrote:
> Nancy Young > wrote:
>
>> Who was it here who just mentioned that they give their cats
>> Gerber 2nd stage meat food to their cats? I picked up a
>> jar for a joke to see what Moxie thought. She plowed
>> through half a jar of turkey and gravy after only a moment's
>> hesitation. Funny.
>>
>> No worries, I will not be changing her diet to people food.
>> However it was a little amusing to me that the cost of the
>> jar was on par with the price of a similar size of cat food.
>
> Vets commonly recommend baby food for cats with appetite
> problems (older kidney cats, for example).
>
> Often at the grocery store you will see an obvious cat lady who
> does not fit the profile of a young mother buying multiple
> units of baby food.
>
> Steve

LOL But you'll often find me buying baby food and I certainly don't fit
that profile, either! It's for the food bank.

Jill

"Steve Pope" > wrote

> Nancy Young > wrote:
>
>>Who was it here who just mentioned that they give their cats
>>Gerber 2nd stage meat food to their cats? I picked up a
>>jar for a joke to see what Moxie thought. She plowed
>>through half a jar of turkey and gravy after only a moment's
>>hesitation. Funny.
>>
>>No worries, I will not be changing her diet to people food.
>>However it was a little amusing to me that the cost of the
>>jar was on par with the price of a similar size of cat food.
>
> Vets commonly recommend baby food for cats with appetite
> problems (older kidney cats, for example).

I can see that. When I had to feed my dog a special diet, though,
it was stuff I made myself. Cats might be trickier.

> Often at the grocery store you will see an obvious cat lady who
> does not fit the profile of a young mother buying multiple
> units of baby food.

Probably where the idea was born that old people are so poor
they eat cat food. An idea that probably seems feasible to people
who don't know how expensive cat food is.

nancy

MarilynRam said...

> On Tue, 20 Nov 2007 17:06:06 -0600, jmcquown wrote:
>
>> LOL But you'll often find me buying baby food and I certainly don't fit
>> that profile, either! It's for the food bank.
>
> Those crack dealers love baby food jars for cooking crack
> cocaine. That's all they use. All crack comes in "cookies" from
> the bottoms of Gerber jars.
>
> Buy them some tuna instead.


Human consumed tuna is not healthy as a typical cat diet. Something about
kidney damage or something. From some vet program on the Animal Channel.
Safe as an occasional treat I recall.

Andy

Nancy Young said...

> Who was it here who just mentioned that they give their cats
> Gerber 2nd stage meat food to their cats? I picked up a
> jar for a joke to see what Moxie thought. She plowed
> through half a jar of turkey and gravy after only a moment's
> hesitation. Funny.
>
> No worries, I will not be changing her diet to people food.
> However it was a little amusing to me that the cost of the
> jar was on par with the price of a similar size of cat food.
>
> nancy


I haven't read the ingredients on a recent bottle of Gerber baby food but
back in the 60s, they added excess amounts of sugar so parents who tasted
it felt it was suitable for their kids. The downside to that was the kids
taste buds weren't developed enough to taste sugar and they unfortunately
ate more sugar than they should have, causing growth and health problems
early on. Sweettooth, cavities, diabetes, etc.

Andy

On Tue, 20 Nov 2007 17:43:21 -0600, Andy wrote:

> MarilynRam said...
>
>> On Tue, 20 Nov 2007 17:06:06 -0600, jmcquown wrote:
>>
>>> LOL But you'll often find me buying baby food and I certainly don't fit
>>> that profile, either! It's for the food bank.
>>
>> Those crack dealers love baby food jars for cooking crack
>> cocaine. That's all they use. All crack comes in "cookies" from
>> the bottoms of Gerber jars.
>>
>> Buy them some tuna instead.
>
> Human consumed tuna is not healthy as a typical cat diet. Something about
> kidney damage or something. From some vet program on the Animal Channel.
> Safe as an occasional treat I recall.

That's nice to know. You stupid freak - Why don't you go screw
my ex-girlfriend Jill!!!! Assholeishness.

"John" > wrote

You already gave yourself away, swertz.

nancy

On Nov 20, 3:48 pm, Andy <q> wrote:
> Nancy Young said...
>
> > Who was it here who just mentioned that they give their cats
> > Gerber 2nd stage meat food to their cats? I picked up a
> > jar for a joke to see what Moxie thought. She plowed
> > through half a jar of turkey and gravy after only a moment's
> > hesitation. Funny.
>
> > No worries, I will not be changing her diet to people food.
> > However it was a little amusing to me that the cost of the
> > jar was on par with the price of a similar size of cat food.
>
> > nancy
>
> I haven't read the ingredients on a recent bottle of Gerber baby food but
> back in the 60s, they added excess amounts of sugar so parents who tasted
> it felt it was suitable for their kids. The downside to that was the kids
> taste buds weren't developed enough to taste sugar and they unfortunately
> ate more sugar than they should have, causing growth and health problems
> early on. Sweettooth, cavities, diabetes, etc.
>
> Andy

Most parents now a day are so worried about what they feed their kids,
that they are compulsive label readers.

However, the one taste that all humans are fully prepared for is
sweet. Breastmilk is blindingly sweet, and that's the best food for
infants.

I've fed plenty of babyfood to my sick cats over the years. Usually
it was at the stage when I needed to get pills into them and they'd
progressed beyond stick-it-in-a-shrimp-or-a-piece-of-liver. For some
reason, they always liked the stuff from jars better than home-made
babyfood.

Susan B.

Andy wrote:
> I haven't read the ingredients on a recent bottle of Gerber baby food but
> back in the 60s, they added excess amounts of sugar so parents who tasted
> it felt it was suitable for their kids. The downside to that was the kids
> taste buds weren't developed enough to taste sugar and they unfortunately
> ate more sugar than they should have, causing growth and health problems
> early on. Sweettooth, cavities, diabetes, etc.

Holy Cats, Andy! Review your official instruction manual for newborns
and think about what they eat. Babies taste sweet and sugar very well
and like it a whole bunch. *That's* why baby food manufacturers
over-sweetened all of their products. They needed babies to eat it
without a struggle so their parents would buy more.

Infant formula is sweet. Breast milk is sweet. Once upon a time, babies
were given bottles of sugar water between feedings to keep them quiet.
Babies develop a taste for sweet simple eating that has to be overcome
when solid foods are introduced. Babies will reject less sweet
vegetables for sweeter fruits and juices, so a teaser of applesauce just
to get food on Junior's tongue must be followed swiftly by carrots or
green beans or peas to keep the action going. Vegetables have to be
brought on first and fruits/juices introduced later once solid feeding
and a taste for lower sugar content is established.

MarilynRam wrote:
> On Tue, 20 Nov 2007 17:06:06 -0600, jmcquown wrote:
>
>> LOL But you'll often find me buying baby food and I certainly don't
>> fit that profile, either! It's for the food bank.
>
> Those crack dealers love baby food jars for cooking crack
> cocaine. That's all they use. All crack comes in "cookies" from
> the bottoms of Gerber jars.
>
> Buy them some tuna instead.

Human tuna is good for an occasional treat but not as a steady diet. It
doesn't contain taurine which is essential to a cat's health.
Jill

Nancy Young wrote:
>
> Who was it here who just mentioned that they give their cats
> Gerber 2nd stage meat food to their cats? I picked up a
> jar for a joke to see what Moxie thought. She plowed
> through half a jar of turkey and gravy after only a moment's
> hesitation. Funny.
>
> No worries, I will not be changing her diet to people food.
> However it was a little amusing to me that the cost of the
> jar was on par with the price of a similar size of cat food.
>
> nancy

LOL you lucked out. We too bought a jar of it for Mz Diva (aka Ruby).
However Divacat took one sniff and backed away from the stuff as though
it was poison! Her late lamented colleague Emperor Ming, OTOH, would
have eaten the turkey food and gone for the jar as well.

"Arri London" > wrote

> Nancy Young wrote:
>>
>> Who was it here who just mentioned that they give their cats
>> Gerber 2nd stage meat food to their cats? I picked up a
>> jar for a joke to see what Moxie thought. She plowed
>> through half a jar of turkey and gravy after only a moment's
>> hesitation. Funny.

> LOL you lucked out. We too bought a jar of it for Mz Diva (aka Ruby).
> However Divacat took one sniff and backed away from the stuff as though
> it was poison!

I half thought that would happen, and for a split second she
looked at her regular cat food like Come back!

>Her late lamented colleague Emperor Ming, OTOH, would
> have eaten the turkey food and gone for the jar as well.

Ruby and Emperor Ming, I like that. I'm really sorry he's gone.

nancy

"Sqwertz" > wrote

> Yes, that's all true. But you really shouldn't buy baby food for
> food drives or shelters, is what I was getting at. The jars
> themselves are "hot" items for low-life users.

I was pleasantly surprised to see they still came in glass
jars. Of course, I don't have crack to use them with.

nancy

Nancy Young > wrote:
:Who was it here who just mentioned that they give their cats
:Gerber 2nd stage meat food to their cats? I picked up a
:jar for a joke to see what Moxie thought. She plowed
:through half a jar of turkey and gravy after only a moment's
:hesitation. Funny.

My cat eats this. He's old (17, I think.), and doesn't eat well. He
still likes his dry food, but can't eat much of it. I think his teeth
hurt. He won't eat wet cat food. He sniffs at it, sometimes licks
the liquid up, but won't usually eat it. Baby food, though, he
devours.

Nancy Young wrote:
>
> "Arri London" > wrote
>
> > Nancy Young wrote:
> >>
> >> Who was it here who just mentioned that they give their cats
> >> Gerber 2nd stage meat food to their cats? I picked up a
> >> jar for a joke to see what Moxie thought. She plowed
> >> through half a jar of turkey and gravy after only a moment's
> >> hesitation. Funny.
>
> > LOL you lucked out. We too bought a jar of it for Mz Diva (aka Ruby).
> > However Divacat took one sniff and backed away from the stuff as though
> > it was poison!
>
> I half thought that would happen, and for a split second she
> looked at her regular cat food like Come back!
>
> >Her late lamented colleague Emperor Ming, OTOH, would
> > have eaten the turkey food and gone for the jar as well.
>
> Ruby and Emperor Ming, I like that. I'm really sorry he's gone.
>
> nancy

TY! He was a good cat and was 19 when he died. He wasn't all that fussy
about food. But if he refused to eat something it was pretty bad stuff
LOL!

"David Scheidt" > wrote

> Nancy Young > wrote:
> :Who was it here who just mentioned that they give their cats
> :Gerber 2nd stage meat food to their cats? I picked up a
> :jar for a joke to see what Moxie thought. She plowed
> :through half a jar of turkey and gravy after only a moment's
> :hesitation. Funny.
>
> My cat eats this. He's old (17, I think.), and doesn't eat well. He
> still likes his dry food, but can't eat much of it. I think his teeth
> hurt. He won't eat wet cat food. He sniffs at it, sometimes licks
> the liquid up, but won't usually eat it. Baby food, though, he
> devours.

I bet it's great to see him eating well, even if his teeth are
bothering him. I didn't know so many people were buying their
cats baby food.

nancy

Oh pshaw, on Tue 20 Nov 2007 05:55:52p, Nancy Young meant to say...

>
> "David Scheidt" > wrote
>
>> Nancy Young > wrote:
>> :Who was it here who just mentioned that they give their cats
>> :Gerber 2nd stage meat food to their cats? I picked up a
>> :jar for a joke to see what Moxie thought. She plowed
>> :through half a jar of turkey and gravy after only a moment's
>> :hesitation. Funny.
>>
>> My cat eats this. He's old (17, I think.), and doesn't eat well. He
>> still likes his dry food, but can't eat much of it. I think his teeth
>> hurt. He won't eat wet cat food. He sniffs at it, sometimes licks
>> the liquid up, but won't usually eat it. Baby food, though, he
>> devours.
>
> I bet it's great to see him eating well, even if his teeth are
> bothering him. I didn't know so many people were buying their
> cats baby food.
>
> nancy
>
>
>

According to my vet, it's common practice/recommendation, when a cat is
old, ill, or has teeth problems, and generally retreats from eating other
foods. It's not ideal for them nutritionally, but it is still good
nutrition, and certainly better than them not eating.

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Nancy Young wrote:
> Who was it here who just mentioned that they give their cats
> Gerber 2nd stage meat food to their cats? I picked up a
> jar for a joke to see what Moxie thought. She plowed
> through half a jar of turkey and gravy after only a moment's
> hesitation. Funny.

Some 35 years ago (God!! Can it be?) we had a cat that would practically
attack you to clean out the dregs of our son's *green beans* jar! She'd
stick in a paw, wipe the jar out, and lick it clean, until thee wasn't a
trace left. Around the same period, we had one (another? Maybe the same
- CRS is encroaching) that would eat the remains of a cantaloupe,
scraping the flesh out until there was only a green net left.
Cats are weird . . .

Dave

Michael \"Dog3\" > wrote:

(Steve Pope) dropped this news:fhvp2m$ug1$1

>> Vets commonly recommend baby food for cats with appetite
>> problems (older kidney cats, for example).

>Not mine.

What does your vet recommend for anorexic cats?

>> Often at the grocery store you will see an obvious cat lady who
>> does not fit the profile of a young mother buying multiple
>> units of baby food.

>I've never seen it.

Weird. I see this regularly, and several times have
struck up conversations with these individuals and
confirmed that yes, it was for their cat(s).

Steve

Michael \"Dog3\" > wrote:

(Steve Pope) dropped this news:fi02f4$a0t$1

>> Weird. I see this regularly, and several times have
>> struck up conversations with these individuals and
>> confirmed that yes, it was for their cat(s).

>Never have I seen this and never have I struck up a conversation in the
>baby food aisle with anyone. Go figure. And you see this regularly? But
>then I don't normally go into that aisle either.

Any such conversation would be struck up in the checkout line.

One factor may be that I live a two minute walk from a grocery
store, and while I do not do a large percentage of my food
shopping there, I probably end up there five or seven times
per week.

Steve

On Tue, 20 Nov 2007 17:15:26 -0600, MarilynRam >
wrote:

>On Tue, 20 Nov 2007 17:06:06 -0600, jmcquown wrote:
>
>> LOL But you'll often find me buying baby food and I certainly don't fit
>> that profile, either! It's for the food bank.
>
>Those crack dealers love baby food jars for cooking crack
>cocaine. That's all they use. All crack comes in "cookies" from
>the bottoms of Gerber jars.
>
>Buy them some tuna instead.

That would be a very small cookie. The majority of those I have seen
were about 3" in diameter.

Nancy Young wrote:
> "Sqwertz" > wrote
>
>> Yes, that's all true. But you really shouldn't buy baby food for
>> food drives or shelters, is what I was getting at. The jars
>> themselves are "hot" items for low-life users.
>
> I was pleasantly surprised to see they still came in glass
> jars. Of course, I don't have crack to use them with.
>
> nancy
>
>

You don't use crack with them, you make it with them. A fine disctinction
Crack pipes are a whole different thing.

--

Sarah Gray

Nancy Young wrote:
> "Sqwertz" > wrote
>
>> Yes, that's all true. But you really shouldn't buy baby food for
>> food drives or shelters, is what I was getting at. The jars
>> themselves are "hot" items for low-life users.
>
> I was pleasantly surprised to see they still came in glass
> jars. Of course, I don't have crack to use them with.
>
I checked with the local food bank before Labor Day. They told me they'll
take any type of containers now. They *prefer* not to take glass but if
it's all they can get they will. Before boxes of food are assembled for
distribution the glass jars are inspected. This is to ensure there are no
cracks or chips and that the seal is still intact.

Jill

On Nov 20, 7:23 pm, Sqwertz > wrote:
> On Tue, 20 Nov 2007 18:14:33 -0600, jmcquown wrote:
> > MarilynRam wrote:
> >> On Tue, 20 Nov 2007 17:06:06 -0600, jmcquown wrote:
>
> >>> LOL But you'll often find me buying baby food and I certainly don't
> >>> fit that profile, either! It's for the food bank.
>
> >> Those crack dealers love baby food jars for cooking crack
> >> cocaine. That's all they use. All crack comes in "cookies" from
> >> the bottoms of Gerber jars.
>
> >> Buy them some tuna instead.
>
> > Human tuna is good for an occasional treat but not as a steady diet. It
> > doesn't contain taurine which is essential to a cat's health.
>
> Yes, that's all true. But you really shouldn't buy baby food for
> food drives or shelters, is what I was getting at. The jars
> themselves are "hot" items for low-life users.
>
> -sw

When was the last time you looked at a baby food container?
It no longer is packaged in glass jars. Disposable plastic containers,
similar to "Gladware", only much smaller.
Usually packages of 4 but not necessarily.

In article >,
(Steve Pope) wrote:

> Often at the grocery store you will see an obvious cat lady who
> does not fit the profile of a young mother buying multiple
> units of baby food.

I usually get a few jars of Gerber's at Albertson's, while Cindy is
buying the litter and catfood at the PetsMart next door. Nobody is
going to mistake me for a young mother or a cat lady. But I sometimes
wonder what the other customers think, when they see a
well-into-middle-age male waiting in line at the checkout with an
armload of baby food. Maybe they think I'm a millionaire with a fertile
young trophy wife. Wrong on both counts. Sorry, CJ. ;-)

As the originator of this babyfood for cats thread, I feel obligated to
clarify a couple of points. First of all, we don't use it as staple of
our cats' diet. We give it to them as a treat, in small quantities:
just a dab or two on a spoon or on the tip of a chopstick. It's an
incentive when we are teaching them tricks, a reward after they get
their claws clipped, or a vehicle for getting them to swallow a pill.
On rare occasions we have fed larger quantities to a sick cat, who is
refusing their regular food.

We have cleared this with vets and knowledgeable breeders. In small
quantities, baby food is not harmful to cats. We stick to products that
have only meat and water in the list of ingredients. Cats have lived on
that for millenia. But a domestic cat's diet should be based on good
quality catfoods, which have a different balance of nutrients than
babyfoods.

Do not give them babyfood or any product that contain alliums (onions,
garlic, etc.). That stuff is bad for felines.

Signing off with Luka perched in my lap, doing his best "ain't I just
the cutest?" act, in an effort to get that chopstick to appear.

--
Julian Vrieslander

Dave Bell > wrote in news:z_L0j.60402$RX.485
@newssvr11.news.prodigy.net:


>
> ... we had one (another? Maybe the same
> - CRS is encroaching) that would eat the remains of a cantaloupe,
> scraping the flesh out until there was only a green net left.
> Cats are weird . . .
>


We had a cat that went mad for cantaloupe seeds - she would lick all the
slimy, stringy juices off them. I can't remember if she ate the actual
seeds themselves. Mum, a cantaloupe fiend herself, didn't give the cat a
chance to get at the flesh...

K

Amarantha wrote:
> Dave Bell > wrote in news:z_L0j.60402$RX.485
> @newssvr11.news.prodigy.net:
>
>
>> ... we had one (another? Maybe the same
>> - CRS is encroaching) that would eat the remains of a cantaloupe,
>> scraping the flesh out until there was only a green net left.
>> Cats are weird . . .
>>
>
>
> We had a cat that went mad for cantaloupe seeds - she would lick all the
> slimy, stringy juices off them. I can't remember if she ate the actual
> seeds themselves. Mum, a cantaloupe fiend herself, didn't give the cat a
> chance to get at the flesh...
>
> K
Ours got the shells, after we'd eaten it down to the last 1/4" or so,
and took it from there to the dry netting...

wrote:
>
> When was the last time you looked at a baby food container?
> It no longer is packaged in glass jars. Disposable plastic containers,
> similar to "Gladware", only much smaller.
> Usually packages of 4 but not necessarily.

They still sell the glass jars.

--
-Gina in Italy

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I'm a blogger: http://ravenwolflodge.blogspot.com

Oh pshaw, on Tue 20 Nov 2007 10:08:57p, Dave Bell meant to say...

> Amarantha wrote:
>> Dave Bell > wrote in news:z_L0j.60402$RX.485
>> @newssvr11.news.prodigy.net:
>>
>>
>>> ... we had one (another? Maybe the same
>>> - CRS is encroaching) that would eat the remains of a cantaloupe,
>>> scraping the flesh out until there was only a green net left. Cats are
>>> weird . . .
>>>
>>
>>
>> We had a cat that went mad for cantaloupe seeds - she would lick all the
>> slimy, stringy juices off them. I can't remember if she ate the actual
>> seeds themselves. Mum, a cantaloupe fiend herself, didn't give the cat
a
>> chance to get at the flesh...
>>
>> K
> Ours got the shells, after we'd eaten it down to the last 1/4" or so,
> and took it from there to the dry netting...
>

One of my first catts loved banana peels. She would touch the banana, but
she would eat almost the entire peel. I dared not leave them out in the
kitchen.

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Michael \"Dog3\" > wrote:

(Steve Pope) dropped this news:fi03g8$b7p$1

: in rec.food.cooking

>>>Never have I seen this and never have I struck up a conversation in the
>>>baby food aisle with anyone. Go figure. And you see this regularly?
>But
>>>then I don't normally go into that aisle either.

>> Any such conversation would be struck up in the checkout line.

>> One factor may be that I live a two minute walk from a grocery
>> store, and while I do not do a large percentage of my food
>> shopping there, I probably end up there five or seven times
>> per week.

>Well, whatever you do, don't take the folks word for it that you meet.
>Seriously, get with your vet.

I never suggested people shouldn't take their vet's advice.
You are hypothesizing.

Steve

Nancy Young wrote:

> I bet it's great to see him eating well, even if his teeth are
> bothering him. I didn't know so many people were buying their
> cats baby food.
>
> nancy

If you go to cat shows, you will see a few cats eating baby food right
out of the jar. Most often, it is chicken. The jar rolls around their
cage and they chase the jar around, licking the inside of the jar and
trying to scrape the food out with their paws. It keeps them quite
busy. Maybe that is why the owners do it.

Becca