another warning re. Whiskas Temptations treats (cat)

[redalter]

[QUOTE=DarkBayUnicorn;8558397]
This. This is my life.

No way in hell could I ask my little blighters to go a single day without their Temptations. They would plot my demise with cunning and venom.

I’ve been feeding these treats for decades. The current clowder of three rescues are 15 and 8 years old and they get them daily. My prior purrfect kitty lived to the grand age of 23 eating Temptations every day (even when she no longer had any teeth).

My two younger ones are littermates that actually look a lot like the cat in the commercials, and they act like him too. God forbid I leave the package on the counter unattended for 15 seconds. They’ll steal it and rampage through the house like a herd of tiny, crazed elephants till they can tear it open and eat the whole thing in a sitting. Usually someplace I can’t get at them to take their prize back.[/QUOTE]

I’m sure they attend those secret meetings, too!

[toady123]

I’d take the story with a big honkin’ grain of salt.

[RPM]

Just like a smart horse.

My main problem now with this thread is that, being half Canadian, I have a great TEMPTATION to buy up Punkin Paws Palace, adopt all the cats, and take them to Canada where we can live happily ever after playing with treats!

Temptations are the best cat toys ever because when you chase one, and pounce on it, you get to EAT IT!

[SmartAlex]

Regarding the sound of the Temptations bag: I like to put craisens on my salads. They come in a bag just like Temptations. I have only recently become heartless enough to say: “no this is a bag of craisens. You have to wait until bedtime for your snack.”

Mean Mommy

[redalter]

[QUOTE=SmartAlex;8558645]
Regarding the sound of the Temptations bag: I like to put craisens on my salads. They come in a bag just like Temptations. I have only recently become heartless enough to say: “no this is a bag of craisens. You have to wait until bedtime for your snack.”

Mean Mommy[/QUOTE]

Oh that has happened to me exactly!! Or any bag that may REMOTELY sound like that.

(I like the pomegranate soaked craisens).

I do the same thing “NOT the cookie bag!”

[RPM]

Imagine if horses lived in the house and every time you took a carrot or an apple out of the fridge …

[DarkBayUnicorn]

[QUOTE=redalter;8558484]
I’m sure they attend those secret meetings, too!:D[/QUOTE]

Oh, most probably. My Grande Dame would’ve chaired those meetings while she was alive.

[hoopoe]

http://www.snopes.com/temptations-cat-treats-facebook-warning/

the FDA is easily searchable and if there were true issues you would be able to find information there

a cattery with Corona virus diarrhea and dehydration could easily report the same group of symptoms.

but people want to point to “the last thing they ate” zebra rather than the more common contageous issue

[shiloh]

[QUOTE=toady123;8558523]
I’d take the story with a big honkin’ grain of salt.[/QUOTE]

Yeah, me too. I mean how did they know it was specifically those treats?

I left a package of Temptations on the counter once and when I returned the two boys had gotten them off the counter, gnawed thru the bag and had eaten all the treats and were punching anyone who came to share in their booty. I guess I should have known…:rolleyes:

[RPM]

I wish I could afford to buy each one of you a copy of this book!

http://www.amazon.com/Jenny-Cat-Club-Collection-Childrens/dp/1590170474/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1457136045&sr=1-1&keywords=cat+club

[EventerAJ]

In our house, Temptations is called Kitty Crack. Our cat is a major addict, there’s no 12-step program. He can open half the drawers and all of the cabinets in the house to get at it. God forbid you leave a tiny corner of the package exposed…he will get the drawer open, grab it, and streak through the room, to hide under the bed or table and feast on his prize. I’m not sure we’ve ever had one bag of kitty crack survive without teeth marks; usually we’re lucky enough to catch him before it’s all gone. The only “safe” place to hide the crack treats is in the microwave, oven, or fridge. Hasn’t figured those out yet…!

On the bright side, you can train a cat to do almost anything with Temptations. Ours knows “sit” and “sit up”, and will beg like a dog. Shake the bag, he comes running, sits up and begs. He will often sit on the TV stand where the treats are kept, and just glare at me with steely narrowed eyes. Give me the crack, human, and nobody gets hurt. He’s not much on meowing, thank goodness, most of his communication is telepathic or in cute little chirps.

I don’t think he has a favorite flavor; I honestly don’t think he even tastes/chews before he wants another one. Has anyone met a flavor their cats didn’t inhale?

[shiloh]

Kitty crack…hee hee hee… Too true.

To get my kids to back off the crack, Jack, I put mine in a tin box. Like those ones you get popcorn in a Christmas. They haven’t been able to figure that out yet.

[Alagirl]

reminds me.
Time to treat the kitties!

Temptations, Catnip flavor

[furlong47]

My last cat did have a problem with one particular flavor of these (the dairy ones) - she would throw them back up not long after eating them every time. I didn’t buy that flavor anyway but sometimes was given them as gifts for her, so I passed them on to my friends’ cats. As far as I know, nobody else had an issue. And she didn’t have a problem with any other flavor. Some ingredient in there just did not agree with her.

[TC3200]

[QUOTE=furlong47;8560891]
My last cat did have a problem with one particular flavor of these (the dairy ones) - she would throw them back up not long after eating them every time. I didn’t buy that flavor anyway but sometimes was given them as gifts for her, so I passed them on to my friends’ cats. As far as I know, nobody else had an issue. And she didn’t have a problem with any other flavor. Some ingredient in there just did not agree with her.[/QUOTE]

Thank you for saying that. There are some real know-it-all authorities (oops, I meant jerks) on here who’d no doubt write you a dissertation about how what you say could never ever be true, lol.

[TC3200]

Now, as we all know, numerous tall tales and frauds get passed around the Internet and Facebooks every day. But, you’d either have to be spending your entire life on that trivia, or you’d need to have had prior experience with that story before, or would have to have spent extra time researching everything that you just want to casually mention. And I already said "I don’t have time for that. " I just thought I was doing a good deed by giving a heads up of a potential problem with a product that I don’t use and really idgas about because I think it’s junk. So I confess to being biased. Hee hee.

And the FDA does certainly have recall data, after the fact, after the deaths, after the poisonings, after the kidney damage, etc. After the horse was stolen and everyone has had time to go buy a lock and finally install it. What FDA does not have is the early warnings. And the first post that ever mentioned a potential problem.

Now y’all have a nice day. And if you don’t want to have a nice day, then just do as you please. I’m a technologist, so don’t think you’ve told me anything that I didn’t already know or consider before I made the thread. And you have yourselves a real nice day. ;-D

[RPM]

TC3200,

I just saw a FB photo that bothered me. It showed a cat with the hook of a coat hanger in his mouth, “playing” with the coat hanger. The cat’s owner thought it was cute. At least one person who saw it was NOT amused.

Neither was I. I thought it a really stupid thing to do.

I shared it here on COTH. Only got 2 response, both of whom thought it was fine to let a kitty put a coat hanger hook in its mouth.

I just went ahead and deleted my post, thinking, “I give up.” But I still think I’m right about its being a stupid thing to let a kitty do.

You didn’t just give up and delete your OP, and I admire you for that. But it was the first time I’d ever heard of anyone having a bad experience with these treats.

I used to have a friend, he convinced himself that Temptations were causing his kitty to chew off all the fur on her arms. His vet said it was stress, not treats. But he wasn’t convinced, and to this day he will only feed a different brand of treats.

You stuck to your guns, and that’s cool. :encouragement:

And this thread is fun.

[enjoytheride]

[QUOTE=TC3200;8560976]
Thank you for saying that. There are some real know-it-all authorities (oops, I meant jerks) on here who’d no doubt write you a dissertation about how what you say could never ever be true, lol.[/QUOTE]

I saw only two posters who questioned the validity of the claim made on the now deleted page, one asking if the rescue had directly linked the treats or if it could be an illness easily spread among cats in tight spaces. Another showed the link to the SNOPES page which doesn’t have an answer either way and clearly states the facts.

If those two responses got you so upset I don’t know what to say. People are free to decide if anecdotal evidence from one source is enough to make them stop feeding the treats in the event it becomes a widespread issue or if they want to continue feeding until it becomes a widespread issue.

[RPM]

Oh, well, it was fun while it lasted …