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Low Rent Kitties

Today, we were at Target, shopping for some summer clothes for the girls and buying important things like cat food.

It was the pet food aisle where we ran into a snag. Our usual kind of cat food wasn't there, except for in teeny tiny little bags, which, if you have seen the size of our cats, you know just wouldn't do.

When I got the cats from their very protective owner, he told me that he really really wanted me to keep feeding them Iams, the expensive, supposedly really good for the cat sort of food. So while I'm not really sure how much I buy into the whole concept that the most expensive cat food is the best for the cat, I kept buying the Iams cat food, until today.

I was pretty much of a pushover. It only took about twenty seconds of the girls singing the Meow Mix song in the middle of the store before I gave in. Between the singing and realizing that Meow Mix had a hairball reducing variation, the cheery yellow bag full of tasty bits of chicken and liver found its way into our cart.

We finished our errands, came home, and had lunch. All of the bags from the store landed in the chair in the living room, and as I wandered through, I saw the cats sniffing around the bags from time to time. They are very sniffy cats, so this didn't surprise me at all.

What did surprise me, though, was when I walked by the chair at just the right angle and saw bits of paper scraps on the floor, and I realized that YumYum had chewed her way through the top of the bag and was currently trying to pull out bits of the new cat food with her paw. New bags of Iams cat food have never attracted so much enthusiasm.

After that, we filled one bowl with the rest of the Iams and their other bowl with the same amount of Meow Mix. Currently, the bowl of Iams is still heaping full, while the bowl of Meow Mix has a very significant dent in it. I think we now know which kind they like better!

Posted by Rachel at May 1, 2004 07:59 PM