Since so many of my friends had suggested Blue Buffalo pet foods, I had decided to find out who in town sold it, since I hadn’t ever seen it in my usual shopping locations. I go to the Blue Buffalo web site, and what pops up? A warning that they are recalling one production run of their Spa Select Kitten dry food … the very thing I was setting out to buy!

You see why I never kick myself in the butt more to overcome my procrastination and general unwillingness to go out of my way to do something? It saves my ass more often than not. Had I rushed out when this whole thing started and bought that kitten food, as I had been intending to do, where would my kittens be now? Sick? Dead?!

I can’t remember what the other brand was that friends were suggesting, and quite frankly, I don’t care. They will continue to eat the Purina Kitten Chow. I’ve never been altogether happy with it. It’s not quite as nutritional as I would like it to be and it contains a lot of stuff (like grains) that my cats don’t need to be eating large quantities of … not to mention who knows where they get their ingredients … but at least it hasn’t been killing my cats right this minute. It may give them IBS if I feed them Purina for the rest of their lives, but for the moment, it’s keeping them alive.

But then, who knows, next week Purina may make an announcement about their pet foods. They already had to recall some of their Mighty Dog and Alpo dog products in the first group of recalls. My gut tells me not to buy anything from any company that has been involved in this mess, but what to do? They have to eat something and the list of companies that hasn’t had at least one product recalled is getting freaking slim.

I guess I am going to have to become an expert on cat food (already close, what with all that studying I had to do for Fuzza fussy stomach) and create my own god damned brand of cat food. These picky beasts of mine don’t actually like raw meat or any wet foods at all, so I am going to have to figure out how to make a healthy and dry food at home. At least something that can be stored and isn’t messy (these kittens, they hate any messy foods — such little clean freaks they are). Sounds impossible to do for your average starving artist, but stranger things have happened in this world.