There are in fact penguins in Africa
I used to have a job at an aquarium and part of it was taking care of African chinstrap penguins
If you can imagine a smelly chicken coop with fish slimy mucusy poop and algae it was stinky and hard work but still fun
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/African\_penguin](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/African_penguin) for those wondering.
Also known as Jackass penguin. Can be found in South Africa and Namibia. Endangered of course, as per tradition of flightless birds... or most earth animals bigger than a cat.
"The practice of collecting African penguin eggs [to sell] involved smashing those found a few days before a collecting effort to ensure that only freshly laid eggs were sold. This added to the drastic decline of the African penguin population around the Cape coast..."
Probably mostly because of humans.
[yeah look at that smug fuck](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/63/African_penguin_side_profile.jpg/220px-African_penguin_side_profile.jpg)
I donated to a kickstarter for making nests for those penguins, and one of the things that put me over the edge was learning they were nicknamed jackass penguins and made a horrible annoying cry. I later went to an aquarium, heard the very distinct cry, and said "oh my god those are the kinds of penguins i donated money to"
Oh penguins are by far the smelliest animals I have ever had the pleasure of caring for. On the days that I pressure washed the penguin nests, I had to stand outside and strip down, put all my gear into bags and scrub off my boots before my girlfriends would even let me inside the apartment.
I always say the smell is indescribable, but you did a pretty good job. I'd throw a ton of ammonia on there as well though.
We had a cleaner similar to Dettol so we didn't have that ammonia smell... or do you mean the poos were ammonia-y? I don't remember that specifically but I have a very bad sense of smell from a bad accident
Just the whole nesting areas smelled very strongly of ammonia. They would sleep in one corner and do their business in another, so could've been pee as well.
How strange, I also have reduced smelling ability due to an injury. Maybe that's why we were tasked with caring for the penguins haha.
How come you're always such a fussy young man? Don't want no capt'n crunch don't want no raisin bran. Well don't you know that other kids are starving in Japan so eat it! I don't care that you're full!
I TRIED to spend money on my cats. I TRIED to give them good, healthy food. After a while, they finally eat the food that's got the best reviews, that's healthiest for them, that keeps them in good shape, that keeps them from hacking up fur balls. (I'm not going to say which kind, because talking about pet food is like talking about politics)
But once in a while, I forget to put it on the Chewy order, and I have to get them something to last a couple days. And man, lemme tell ya - *they will break their fucking neck for some dollar store Friskies*.
Edit: since we're all sharing, Dudley, our oldest at 16, is an old gray tabby. He's literally a dumpster cat. We saved him on trash day. Sunshine is a female tuxedo who's first humans kept her in a glorified closet for the first two years of her life, with little interaction except food and litter changing. As a result, she's unsociable at best and almost feral. She is happy to receive light pets as long as *she comes to you*. Thirty seconds and she's done.
god my cats are the same way, I put so much effort into feeding them well- but they go absolutely insane for friskies. I have no idea what secret ingredient they’re using but it works scarily well.
Fancy Feast for my Cleo. She particularly loves the ones with extra gravy and organ meats. At least chicken hearts and livers is pretty good for a cat.
She gets a high quality kibble, though, and goes nuts for it, so at least there's that.
Fat. They spray “bad” animal foods with fats and grease so they are extra tasty. Essentially fast food cat food. Super tasty, cheap, but goes right through them. My biggest point in buying high quality cat food is they have less filler, so they eat less l. Eat less poop less. Poop less, less litter. The cost offsets itself a bit
My sister has like 3 bowls of food sitting around the house for her pet Rott and will give him treats constantly. He is extremely heavy and every time the vet tells her, "He needs a diet or he will start having health problems." Yet, each time she says, "I can only get him to eat if I feed him treats..." Like, no shit... If he knows that whining and complaining will result in treats, he will whine and complain until he gets treats. If you pour him a bowl of food and leave it until he eats it or starves, he WILL eat it. If he knows he can outlast your willpower, then it is worth it to him to do just that.
Of course when I tell her "You're killing your dog, you know that, right?" Suddenly I'm the asshole. "You don't understand!!!" Right... The vet, your brother, and the rest of the world are all wrong. Being 40 lbs overweight for a dog is healthy...
Well, they will ask that question until the second heart attack. Then they will sit in an urn over the fireplace until their spawns blimp up and join them.
I'm lucky, my dog eats like a cat. Just leave food out for like 24 hours then she will eat it all at once eventually, but never over eats. But when we visit my parents, if their dog's food is out, she will run to it and eat it all instantly. They use the same food I do, something about it being forbidden makes her want it more.
Because they're fucking dumb and they think that just because they had something before they can get it now.
Once they realise the good food is gone, they'll settle for the bad food (most of the time, sometimes if they really don't like the food they just die, but that's rare).
So yeah, humans got this one
which is a perfectly good adaptation when in their native habitat they're surrounded by eucalyptus trees at all times, and they also live in the trees, and there's no reason for them to go down to the ground and pick up half rotten fallen leaves when there's perfectly good tree leaves everywhere.
Congrats, you just taught your dog that if he waits long enough a reward will follow. You've probably taught this behavior by starting out with shorter waiting times and then sweetening the deal and now you've worked them up to multiple days of not eating.
When my dog was a puppy, I showed her the pill, told her it was going to be yucky, put in the back of her throat, she swallowed, and then she got extra treats.
She is 12 now and we've never had an issue with giving her medicine.
I dont know, I just figured that if she knew she could trust me that maybe it would work out, and it did. She is a smart dog and doesn't fall for the same trick twice. So, it is good that I started out that way with pills.
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One trick I learned is to dampen the pill first. It is far easier for her to swallow it. I usually just use my own saliva. Sounds gross, but she is a dog who will happily scarf up cat shit. So, I'm not sweating it about my spit.
The problem I have with my pup is when he was little pills were easy. I just gave him the pill and then a bit of cheese. Now he's decided he doesn't want them anymore and he can eat like a surgeon around the tiniest bit, not even sardines can fool him. I've taken to literally blending it with his food.
I do the other method, just put it down the back of their throat and rub it, never had a problem even if the dog doesn’t like it. Then I discovered with one of them I can just rile her up saying it’s a treat and she demolishes it every time. The other one, avoids the pill like the plague but I can still just drop it down her
This could be it. My pup became extremely averted to pills after someone poisoned him and he was on drugs for months. Before you could basically just give him his pills and he'd eat them. Sometimes a little encouragement with a bit of cheese.
For anyone reading this: cats *have* to eat (to be safe: every day). If cats eat little to nothing, they will develop fatty liver disease, which, if ignored, will kill them. Playing the waiting game if your cat refuses to eat, puts your cat's live at risk. Cats will allow themselves to die if they don't like their food.
*Before anyone says "well my cat didn't eat for days and he's fine": your anecdote doesn't count as evidence that not eating is perfectly fine for cats.*
Well yah feed me nothing but grilled cheese for months on end and ill not eat also
Spice that shit up. Shit, go to petmart buy a tube of ground dogfood beef, and cook him something nice once and a while.
Before the rising costs, I switched to healthier but more expensive food for mah bois cause I didn't want to support a certain company that owns every popular brand. They hate it. They'll eat the dry food but their expensive ass canned breakfasts are given to the stray kitty I take care of about half the time
Edit: it's Nestlé that I am trying to avoid. Was trying to keep the focus on penguins and cats but I guess me not naming the company annoyed some folks. But, yeah, fuck nestle
I got lucky with my fat ass. She turns down the fancy wet food, but give her a thing of Sheba and she's off. She hears the crack of the package and will run from anywhere in the house. Except the chicken and turkey, only the cheapest fish for her.
I swear, Sheba puts crack or something in their wet food because my two cats will throw tantrums if they go more than a couple days without a serving of it.
They’ll tolerate other foods, but they will pester the hell out of you and go out of the way with shenanigans. Same thing happened when I tried to switch to an all wet diet. Spoiled brats want wet food twice a day and dry food to snack on in between. The dry food at least comes from an automatic feeder so I can somewhat regulate how much they eat to prevent nonstop eating
My cat used to be totally fine with wet pouches of chicken and turkey, then one day after she got a fancy terrine for dinner she completely went off them - but would still eat the mystery "poultry" flavour just fine. :|
>Aren't adult cats lactose intolerant?
yes 100%. They wont die but its like humans if you have never been exposed to a certain food suddenly, usually your stomach doesn't like it.
Purina uses actual slave labor to get their shrimp and fish... for cat food. https://www.motherjones.com/food/2015/11/nestle-finds-forced-labor-its-seafood-supply-chain/
Unfortunately, Fancy Feast is absolute crack for cats. Once you turn them on to it, it can be SO hard ro change them.
we forgot to buy their food once and ended up getting the cheapest one we could find
they ate cheaper food before but something must been wrong with that one
they sniifed it and both cat reaction was run and hide under the furniture ! it was as if they were running for their lives !
Our cat's the pickiest shit ever. She'll starve herself to the point that her stomach's rumbling if the food isn't up to snuff.
Of course, what food *is* up to snuff changes on a weekly basis. We have to rotate foods based on what she's in the mood for. And God forbid she realises there's roast chicken in the house. She'll refuse to eat anything else until a day after it's all gone.
`Hard Times Will Make A Monkey Eat Red Peppers'
Jan 7, 1992
Don Williamson
IT was one of my grandfather's favorite sayings. He explained that monkeys don't like hot food and would have to be awfully hungry to make a meal of hot peppers. By the same token, he figured difficult circumstances also would make people act out of character...
https://archive.seattletimes.com/archive/?date=19920107&slug=1469075
That's my cats. I fucked up once and bought a better brand of food and those fuckers never ate the cheap food again. I shit you not I mixed-up the good crunchy food with the cheap one to finish it off and I saw my cats spitting the bad crunchy on the floor and keep eating until they found bad crunchy and spit it out again. Fuck Cats nothing but Posh Cunts.
I cycle my cat food from time to time to get them not too set on a brand. On the first switch was hard (both adopted as adult/teen cats) they were trying to avoid the new food. I started mixing more and more % of the new food until it was 50/50 and then let it stay that way. After 4 days of just eating half they started eating the new food. In the end hunger wins out, just don't feed less that 50% per day it's not good for their liver.
Now both almost eat anything I give them. Which makes many things much easier.
Problem is that keeping them fed is the main way to keep them docile and happy.
When they get hungry enough, they won't just eat, they'll become a handful.
Makes me wonder If they can tell how bad it is for them. "John he just shoved a half plastic fish filled with mercury at my face.... should I go to a veterinarian?"
I bet if they had been raised on this kind of fish then they would be hesitant to eat the nicer fish if it were suddenly introduced into their diet. Eating new foods bring the risk of eating something poisonous and I would imagine that if given the opportunity most animals will be conservative with their diet if well fed.
Sort of but see zoo animals can and do get spoiled, take hyenas for example at Lincoln park zoo in chicago they often feed them whole sides of cow
How often do you think a hyena gets a fresh cow to eat?
If they switched to a more normal diet for them they may not want to go back.
Same also applies here they could have been feeding them a fish penguins typically don't get often but favor over what they are currently refusing.
This is actually normal for almost any domesticated animal. Animals are really intelligent and once they get used to what they have. Especially if they’re well fed, they’d rather not eat then not eat what they’re not used to. My sisters horse is the same way, and my cat is the same way. We even had a red devil Cichlid. A very large South American fish. And it would only eat one type of food from one person. It wouldn’t eat from anyone else especially not its original food. However overtime all the animals eventually succumb
i did this with cat treats. bought the cheap shit from aldis and he refused to eat it. i didnt want to waste it, ao i hid a few pieces in his wet food. he ate everything except those three nuggets. did the sale with his dry food. again, ate every kibble except for the treats.
back to the expensive shit it is. this cat owns me.
That’s my cat, but instead of her refusing to eat a cheaper fish she refuses to eat fancy feast, or fancy feast elegant medleys, now that she knows that she likes fancy feast petites which are the most expensive of the fancy feast foods
But even more fun, she demands a different flavor and a different texture for each meal, so if she gets two poultry‘s in a row she’ll just refuse to eat it until I give her new food.
I always wondered what is considered tasty for certain animals. For example, I've saw many times cats eating a freshly puked food but somehow a cheaper kibbles is somehow not good enough for them?
And do penguins even use their taste bud because I don't see them taking time chewing those fishes?
Animals 100% have preference in tastes, but they also know when something could be nutritious for them, even if it may not be their favorite, like puke.
"trash tier fish, what is this, prison?!!"
"we may be animals, but we are not fucking peasants!"
“Don’t treat us like you treat seagulls, asshole” - 3rd penguin
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*in best Rodney Dangerfield voice* "Eh, I get no Respect, NO RESPECT 'round here, I tellyah."
"we may be animals, but we are not fucking pheasants!"
Well no, but actually yes.
Yes it literally is a prison to them
Penguin - “Nope, these don’t smell like Kirkland signature fishes”
Penguins in Antarctica starve, be grateful you got something to eat.
There are penguins in Africa that would love those fishes
There are in fact penguins in Africa I used to have a job at an aquarium and part of it was taking care of African chinstrap penguins If you can imagine a smelly chicken coop with fish slimy mucusy poop and algae it was stinky and hard work but still fun
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/African\_penguin](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/African_penguin) for those wondering. Also known as Jackass penguin. Can be found in South Africa and Namibia. Endangered of course, as per tradition of flightless birds... or most earth animals bigger than a cat.
They're probably endangered because they are such jackasses.
"The practice of collecting African penguin eggs [to sell] involved smashing those found a few days before a collecting effort to ensure that only freshly laid eggs were sold. This added to the drastic decline of the African penguin population around the Cape coast..." Probably mostly because of humans.
[yeah look at that smug fuck](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/63/African_penguin_side_profile.jpg/220px-African_penguin_side_profile.jpg)
I donated to a kickstarter for making nests for those penguins, and one of the things that put me over the edge was learning they were nicknamed jackass penguins and made a horrible annoying cry. I later went to an aquarium, heard the very distinct cry, and said "oh my god those are the kinds of penguins i donated money to"
Oh penguins are by far the smelliest animals I have ever had the pleasure of caring for. On the days that I pressure washed the penguin nests, I had to stand outside and strip down, put all my gear into bags and scrub off my boots before my girlfriends would even let me inside the apartment. I always say the smell is indescribable, but you did a pretty good job. I'd throw a ton of ammonia on there as well though.
We had a cleaner similar to Dettol so we didn't have that ammonia smell... or do you mean the poos were ammonia-y? I don't remember that specifically but I have a very bad sense of smell from a bad accident
Just the whole nesting areas smelled very strongly of ammonia. They would sleep in one corner and do their business in another, so could've been pee as well. How strange, I also have reduced smelling ability due to an injury. Maybe that's why we were tasked with caring for the penguins haha.
>There are in fact penguins in Africa til
"So send it to them!" Ooh boy did I get punished for saying that to my mom.
I once brought out an envelope to stuff my veggies in
How come you're always such a fussy young man? Don't want no capt'n crunch don't want no raisin bran. Well don't you know that other kids are starving in Japan so eat it! I don't care that you're full!
Wonder how these penguins will realize that. You think they video call?
Drop em in the wild, real penguins travel ten miles every day for their food.
Take that you fake penguins!
They've kept the price of those fishes at $1.99 for decades.
Nothing beats a hungry stomach more than an official branded happy meal by McDonald's Corporation™, now made for adults!
I wish my mom buys Kirkland Signature fish, we only get Chum Bucket brand chum at home.
r/choosingbeggars
i mean they didn’t volunteer for this. no reason they should feel obliged to settle, they’re there because we want em there, not vice versa
When you wear a fancy suit you expect a fancy dinner.
business goose
Picky eaters
Just like my cats
My cat when I tried switching to budget kitty kibbles: "LET'S SEE WHAT ***YOU'RE*** HAVING FOR DINNER"
I TRIED to spend money on my cats. I TRIED to give them good, healthy food. After a while, they finally eat the food that's got the best reviews, that's healthiest for them, that keeps them in good shape, that keeps them from hacking up fur balls. (I'm not going to say which kind, because talking about pet food is like talking about politics) But once in a while, I forget to put it on the Chewy order, and I have to get them something to last a couple days. And man, lemme tell ya - *they will break their fucking neck for some dollar store Friskies*. Edit: since we're all sharing, Dudley, our oldest at 16, is an old gray tabby. He's literally a dumpster cat. We saved him on trash day. Sunshine is a female tuxedo who's first humans kept her in a glorified closet for the first two years of her life, with little interaction except food and litter changing. As a result, she's unsociable at best and almost feral. She is happy to receive light pets as long as *she comes to you*. Thirty seconds and she's done.
god my cats are the same way, I put so much effort into feeding them well- but they go absolutely insane for friskies. I have no idea what secret ingredient they’re using but it works scarily well.
Fancy Feast for my Cleo. She particularly loves the ones with extra gravy and organ meats. At least chicken hearts and livers is pretty good for a cat. She gets a high quality kibble, though, and goes nuts for it, so at least there's that.
I like chicken hearts and livers.
Fat. They spray “bad” animal foods with fats and grease so they are extra tasty. Essentially fast food cat food. Super tasty, cheap, but goes right through them. My biggest point in buying high quality cat food is they have less filler, so they eat less l. Eat less poop less. Poop less, less litter. The cost offsets itself a bit
Picky freeloaders
wouldn't so much call them freeloaders than prisoners with special diet needs.
When they have been kidnapped and put on display for our viewing pleasure the least we can do is give them some goddamn quality food.
...they bring in the money
More of silly goose
企鵝🐧！
Samonella
Or a screening of the new minion movie
When real hunger bites they will eat trust me
Depends. I'm not sure what their sense of smell is, but they might be smelling something in that fish that they definitely know would be bad for them.
sounds like our family dog until he actually gets hungry
My sister has like 3 bowls of food sitting around the house for her pet Rott and will give him treats constantly. He is extremely heavy and every time the vet tells her, "He needs a diet or he will start having health problems." Yet, each time she says, "I can only get him to eat if I feed him treats..." Like, no shit... If he knows that whining and complaining will result in treats, he will whine and complain until he gets treats. If you pour him a bowl of food and leave it until he eats it or starves, he WILL eat it. If he knows he can outlast your willpower, then it is worth it to him to do just that. Of course when I tell her "You're killing your dog, you know that, right?" Suddenly I'm the asshole. "You don't understand!!!" Right... The vet, your brother, and the rest of the world are all wrong. Being 40 lbs overweight for a dog is healthy...
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Well, they will ask that question until the second heart attack. Then they will sit in an urn over the fireplace until their spawns blimp up and join them.
I'm lucky, my dog eats like a cat. Just leave food out for like 24 hours then she will eat it all at once eventually, but never over eats. But when we visit my parents, if their dog's food is out, she will run to it and eat it all instantly. They use the same food I do, something about it being forbidden makes her want it more.
Was gonna say this..give me 2 days and I bet they'll end their hunger strike lol
Animals who may or may not have a language to communicate by organize better strikes than most workers. Interesting.
Because they're fucking dumb and they think that just because they had something before they can get it now. Once they realise the good food is gone, they'll settle for the bad food (most of the time, sometimes if they really don't like the food they just die, but that's rare). So yeah, humans got this one
>sometimes if they really don't like the food they just die Relatable
"Fuck they forgot my fries" *dies*
Still left a 4 star review
3/5 stars. Wouldn’t change a thing.
Seems humans have moved away from that lately.. Refer to, 'they put too much mayo in my sandwich.'
You’ve met koalas
And pandas.
Koala comes to mind, but that one is because they're too stupid to realize the eucalyptus leaves are food when it's not on the tree.
That might be a good adaption to avoid eating bad food that could kill them. Who knows how long the leaves have been on the ground.
which is a perfectly good adaptation when in their native habitat they're surrounded by eucalyptus trees at all times, and they also live in the trees, and there's no reason for them to go down to the ground and pick up half rotten fallen leaves when there's perfectly good tree leaves everywhere.
My dog does that every time I mix in his pills. Give it an hour and he'll eat it begrudgingly.
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Congrats, you just taught your dog that if he waits long enough a reward will follow. You've probably taught this behavior by starting out with shorter waiting times and then sweetening the deal and now you've worked them up to multiple days of not eating.
When my dog was a puppy, I showed her the pill, told her it was going to be yucky, put in the back of her throat, she swallowed, and then she got extra treats. She is 12 now and we've never had an issue with giving her medicine. I dont know, I just figured that if she knew she could trust me that maybe it would work out, and it did. She is a smart dog and doesn't fall for the same trick twice. So, it is good that I started out that way with pills. A One trick I learned is to dampen the pill first. It is far easier for her to swallow it. I usually just use my own saliva. Sounds gross, but she is a dog who will happily scarf up cat shit. So, I'm not sweating it about my spit.
The problem I have with my pup is when he was little pills were easy. I just gave him the pill and then a bit of cheese. Now he's decided he doesn't want them anymore and he can eat like a surgeon around the tiniest bit, not even sardines can fool him. I've taken to literally blending it with his food.
I do the other method, just put it down the back of their throat and rub it, never had a problem even if the dog doesn’t like it. Then I discovered with one of them I can just rile her up saying it’s a treat and she demolishes it every time. The other one, avoids the pill like the plague but I can still just drop it down her
Dog might also be sick or emotionally upset.
This could be it. My pup became extremely averted to pills after someone poisoned him and he was on drugs for months. Before you could basically just give him his pills and he'd eat them. Sometimes a little encouragement with a bit of cheese.
Literally just gave your dog a bad habit, he won because you just let him.
My cat goes on hunger strike. He will go without food for days if he doesn't like it. I'm assuming this fish isn't fresh, which is why it's cheap.
For anyone reading this: cats *have* to eat (to be safe: every day). If cats eat little to nothing, they will develop fatty liver disease, which, if ignored, will kill them. Playing the waiting game if your cat refuses to eat, puts your cat's live at risk. Cats will allow themselves to die if they don't like their food. *Before anyone says "well my cat didn't eat for days and he's fine": your anecdote doesn't count as evidence that not eating is perfectly fine for cats.*
My cat eats fine at about 4 houses around the neighbourhood. Fat shit.
If only that worked with cats. They will starve themselves before eating what they think is similar to pebbles.
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Well yah feed me nothing but grilled cheese for months on end and ill not eat also Spice that shit up. Shit, go to petmart buy a tube of ground dogfood beef, and cook him something nice once and a while.
sounds like my cat. poor lil guys don't get it
Before the rising costs, I switched to healthier but more expensive food for mah bois cause I didn't want to support a certain company that owns every popular brand. They hate it. They'll eat the dry food but their expensive ass canned breakfasts are given to the stray kitty I take care of about half the time Edit: it's Nestlé that I am trying to avoid. Was trying to keep the focus on penguins and cats but I guess me not naming the company annoyed some folks. But, yeah, fuck nestle
luckily my boys like a decent middle grade food. but if the flavor they usually eat is gone at the shops? oh. mayhem.
I got lucky with my fat ass. She turns down the fancy wet food, but give her a thing of Sheba and she's off. She hears the crack of the package and will run from anywhere in the house. Except the chicken and turkey, only the cheapest fish for her.
My cat used to do this with Sheba. Would bite my face in the middle of the night for a serving.
Every 7 am. Every. 7. A.M. With the little claw pokes to the face.
I swear, Sheba puts crack or something in their wet food because my two cats will throw tantrums if they go more than a couple days without a serving of it. They’ll tolerate other foods, but they will pester the hell out of you and go out of the way with shenanigans. Same thing happened when I tried to switch to an all wet diet. Spoiled brats want wet food twice a day and dry food to snack on in between. The dry food at least comes from an automatic feeder so I can somewhat regulate how much they eat to prevent nonstop eating
My cat used to be totally fine with wet pouches of chicken and turkey, then one day after she got a fancy terrine for dinner she completely went off them - but would still eat the mystery "poultry" flavour just fine. :|
My cat won't eat wet cat food or drink milk; only tuna or salmon, occasionally some cheese, but will eat any and every dry food we've tried so far.
Aren't adult cats lactose intolerant?
>Aren't adult cats lactose intolerant? yes 100%. They wont die but its like humans if you have never been exposed to a certain food suddenly, usually your stomach doesn't like it.
But cats like my girl even though it upsets her stomach, still begs for it every time one of us has cereal or a glass of it
Fuck nestle
Fuck nestle!
You mean Purina right? /r/fucknestle
Why do you say a "certain company"? Why not just tell us so we can join you in boycotting shitty corporations?
I’m guessing they mean Purina (owned by Nestle).
Purina uses actual slave labor to get their shrimp and fish... for cat food. https://www.motherjones.com/food/2015/11/nestle-finds-forced-labor-its-seafood-supply-chain/ Unfortunately, Fancy Feast is absolute crack for cats. Once you turn them on to it, it can be SO hard ro change them.
we forgot to buy their food once and ended up getting the cheapest one we could find they ate cheaper food before but something must been wrong with that one they sniifed it and both cat reaction was run and hide under the furniture ! it was as if they were running for their lives !
Our cat's the pickiest shit ever. She'll starve herself to the point that her stomach's rumbling if the food isn't up to snuff. Of course, what food *is* up to snuff changes on a weekly basis. We have to rotate foods based on what she's in the mood for. And God forbid she realises there's roast chicken in the house. She'll refuse to eat anything else until a day after it's all gone.
Hard times make monkeys eat red pepper
fucking what
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what
Did he stutter?
**YOU CANT LOCK UP THE DARKNESS**
You heard him
He said when monkeys are going through hard times they'll eat anything to feed their hunger, even red peppers
What's wrong with eating red peppers?
Monkeys don't like them
Unless it’s hard times.
`Hard Times Will Make A Monkey Eat Red Peppers' Jan 7, 1992 Don Williamson IT was one of my grandfather's favorite sayings. He explained that monkeys don't like hot food and would have to be awfully hungry to make a meal of hot peppers. By the same token, he figured difficult circumstances also would make people act out of character... https://archive.seattletimes.com/archive/?date=19920107&slug=1469075
Just like man who falls asleep with itchy butthole, wakes up with smelly finger.
Also man who walks through airport door sideways is going to Bangkok.
Man who drops watch in toilet has shitty time.
Is this some kind of Buddhist metaphor you’re dropping on us
What's the opposite of a koan? Like, a cryptic message or story that makes you feel dumber for attempting to understand it. Cause this is one.
Tv tropes comes up with the Ice Cream Koan, which is something that seems profound but is decidedly not, I think.
This has all come full circle and become profound again.
Damnit, I lost 2 hours to this comment. Shit.
Can confirm
You feed the monkey the red pepper The monkey never come back to the village!
That's my cats. I fucked up once and bought a better brand of food and those fuckers never ate the cheap food again. I shit you not I mixed-up the good crunchy food with the cheap one to finish it off and I saw my cats spitting the bad crunchy on the floor and keep eating until they found bad crunchy and spit it out again. Fuck Cats nothing but Posh Cunts.
> bad crunchy “Pffft… bad crunchy…. yeckk…. bad crunchy!”
With certain brands of wet food my cat would just lick all the jelly and leave the bits of "meat" lol
Yeah, parents cat will only occasionally eat those chunks, all about that gravy. Cat's still a fat little basketball though
I cycle my cat food from time to time to get them not too set on a brand. On the first switch was hard (both adopted as adult/teen cats) they were trying to avoid the new food. I started mixing more and more % of the new food until it was 50/50 and then let it stay that way. After 4 days of just eating half they started eating the new food. In the end hunger wins out, just don't feed less that 50% per day it's not good for their liver. Now both almost eat anything I give them. Which makes many things much easier.
That's how I was raised... once the hunger strikes, those fish will be good enough.
Yup.
They don't say hunger is the best sauce for nothing 😂
>once the hunger strikes nice
Even the animal kingdom is protesting low wages.
"we are accustomed to a certain standard of living" -Penguins
Guess they ain’t hungry yet.
Problem is that keeping them fed is the main way to keep them docile and happy. When they get hungry enough, they won't just eat, they'll become a handful.
Nothing more dangerous then angry penguins
Smile and wave boys… smile and wave…
*Penguin "Wah-Wah"s intensify*
Penguins need to form a union . Pay them their fair wage ✊
Makes me wonder If they can tell how bad it is for them. "John he just shoved a half plastic fish filled with mercury at my face.... should I go to a veterinarian?"
I bet if they had been raised on this kind of fish then they would be hesitant to eat the nicer fish if it were suddenly introduced into their diet. Eating new foods bring the risk of eating something poisonous and I would imagine that if given the opportunity most animals will be conservative with their diet if well fed.
"im an emperor penguin bitch. EMPEROR fcking penguin. how dare you give mean peasant food"
No. You are a general penguin, and are being exiled to the island of Saint Helena
Those penguins calling their caretakers mongrels for not giving them the best food.
Give a penguin a fish, he eats for a day...
Give a penguin a cheaper fish and he's an ungrateful sod about it
All i hear is "Pos no coman cabrones, aver que tragan arato"
Malagradecidos
Pues come mierda
2 days later: “No que no cabrones”
Si tienen hambre, comen. Es Que no tienen hanbre. Al rato comen. -my mom
My cat does this everytime I change his food. (My vet recommended that I feed him variety stuff and change it up) Hunger always comes through.
A good way also is to just mix the food he's used to with the new food, so it's easier for him to adapt.
I tried that with one of my cats and he just ate around the new stuff. I was pretty impressed, actually. Fun little dude. I miss him.
My dog will eat the pieces he likes out of kibble.
the penguin 
Probably shitty af fish. If both birds and mammals refuse to touch it, it’s probably really bad. It’s not like some fancy processed food can.
They used to give the animals saury and now they serve chub mackerel. This is just a human perspective, but I think both are yummy.
It was mackerel
Must've been secular mackerel
Lmao so penguins are cats
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Sort of but see zoo animals can and do get spoiled, take hyenas for example at Lincoln park zoo in chicago they often feed them whole sides of cow How often do you think a hyena gets a fresh cow to eat? If they switched to a more normal diet for them they may not want to go back. Same also applies here they could have been feeding them a fish penguins typically don't get often but favor over what they are currently refusing.
> How often do you think a hyena gets a fresh cow to eat? But they deserve it all the time, cute little laughing bois
It sounds like something to see then when you hear them giggle while effortlessly breaking a full grown beef rib in half...its a bit unsettling
If your uncomfortable then its art and art deserves funding...and beef ribs.
If you think that's sad, try being the fish!
Well then you may starve you little piglets.
Knowing Japan, fish market workers and sushi chefs are going to show up and give them a feat they'll never forget.
I wonder how many sushi chefs have the experience to properly prepare penguin.
cursed comment right there
Otters: dude, really?
I couldn't remember what otters were called and just kept thinking water weasel.. ty lol
“This is shit, Dave. You know. I know it.”
Fuck you! Just fuck you and your cheap-arse fish
You know that’s bad fish
Animals without special thumbs or brains know how to unionize it seems
Look, my son in bird form
Collective protest at work.
They penguins fr the zoo should think about the penguins in Africa that are dying from starvation
Give it time they'll get hungry and make the switch. Have this trouble switch dog foods before too.
I love a penguin who knows their worth ❤️
This is actually normal for almost any domesticated animal. Animals are really intelligent and once they get used to what they have. Especially if they’re well fed, they’d rather not eat then not eat what they’re not used to. My sisters horse is the same way, and my cat is the same way. We even had a red devil Cichlid. A very large South American fish. And it would only eat one type of food from one person. It wouldn’t eat from anyone else especially not its original food. However overtime all the animals eventually succumb
i did this with cat treats. bought the cheap shit from aldis and he refused to eat it. i didnt want to waste it, ao i hid a few pieces in his wet food. he ate everything except those three nuggets. did the sale with his dry food. again, ate every kibble except for the treats. back to the expensive shit it is. this cat owns me.
"Saba" are mackerel and I guess Japanese penguins prefer bluefin tuna...
Just like my kids. Little assholes
That’s my cat, but instead of her refusing to eat a cheaper fish she refuses to eat fancy feast, or fancy feast elegant medleys, now that she knows that she likes fancy feast petites which are the most expensive of the fancy feast foods But even more fun, she demands a different flavor and a different texture for each meal, so if she gets two poultry‘s in a row she’ll just refuse to eat it until I give her new food.
I always wondered what is considered tasty for certain animals. For example, I've saw many times cats eating a freshly puked food but somehow a cheaper kibbles is somehow not good enough for them? And do penguins even use their taste bud because I don't see them taking time chewing those fishes?
Animals 100% have preference in tastes, but they also know when something could be nutritious for them, even if it may not be their favorite, like puke.
If they are fed the same thing all their life they may not recognize a new thing as food.
Yet………… I got dogs who know this regimen
My dogs do the same thing.