Exactly! Meat-by-products: stuff from animals, that isn't meat. Claws, feathers, blood, tendons. I'm a food snob, too. I want my dog to get the good stuff.

i'm not as snobby about by-products, bc i think in the wild, when an animal eats the whole carcass, it's eating what humans call "by-products" anyway.

like if there's "chicken by-products" listed i'm like, well whatever. as long as it's not the main ingredient.

i just don't like the fact that no one ever knows WHAT KIND OF ANIMAL the nameless "meat" comes from.

pet food industry uses a lot of sick animals unfit for human consumption, and other creepy sources.

and isn't required to tell you what they are.

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some of my customers want me to suck their *****es. i tell them allah did not create my mouth for that purpose.

my leonard has dry food available at all times but he doesn't seem to like it

he gets a pouch every evening, and he is obsessed with that pouch. from the second i walk in the door, he cries loudly for it. it's like me getting home from work and him getting his pouch is the highlight of his entire universe.

he seems to be hungry at all times, and i don't know if i am feeing him enough. he eats the dry food but not all of it. and he's a very vocal cat so everytime i even go in the kitchen he loses his mind. i dont think he has worms or anything, because he is only 6 months old and bigger than a regular adult cat. when he gets neutered he's gonna get so fat.

i really don't want to overfeed him.

my dog does both wet & dry but now come to think of it, her terrible ****ting problems have started whilst on wet food. she just is losing teeth so i'm concerned to just give her dry food.

is there a softer, dry food for old *****es?

i'm pretty sure dogs NEED meat in some form as part of their diet though don't they? like it has essential nutrients in that they actually require in order to be healthy dogs.

my 3 cats have a combination of wet and dry food. a bit of wet food in the morning and evening at feeding time, and dry food to graze on throughout the day. always good quality wet food though. and the smell of it's never a problem because they eat every last bit of it there and then.

wet food does start to ****ing stink though if it's left for long. my friends have just moved their cats onto a dry food only diet for that very reason. i think it's fine as long as you choose a good quality dry food that provides all the nutrients they need, and make extra sure they always have a supply of fresh water as they drink more if they only have dry food.