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misc.survivalism ? Eating pet food for survival
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me (walter snipped-for-privacy@post.com change)
4:14 PM (1 minute ago)
On Monday, September 17, 2018 at 1:28:21 PM UTC-5, walter snipped-for-privacy@post.com wr
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> > > > Wondering about which pet food that might stomach best, I found the
> > > site at
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> > > But the products shown as edible by human standards are all expensive ,
> > > like more than $2 lb.. This seems to compare unfavorably with the lo w
> > > priced cans of fish.
> > >
> > > But they warn about letting your pet associate your food with theirs
> > > as a matter of dominance, or something.
> > >
> > > Hard core survivors should have a Plan B (hidden from family) for
> > > dining on feral cats and dogs, should the need arise. I once asked
> > > school kids of elementary age if they would be able to eat a pet
> > > rabbit if their parents said to, and most said they could, but
> > > wouldn't like it.
> >
> > No salt or pepper for pets.
> >
> > "The human nose has about 5 million olfactory receptors, microscopic pr
oteins that allow us to detect odors. With 45 million to 80 million recepto rs, cats have a far better sense of smell?but they can't measure up to the average dog, whose snout holds between 149 million and 300 million receptors.Oct 15, 2012"
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> No salt?
"The majority of human studies indicate that adding salt is inadvisable"