# If we love our Cats so much why do we feed them crap?

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**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [March 13, 2007, 1:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-we-love-our-cats-so-much-why-do-we-feed-them-crap/395741 "2007-03-13T13:59:10Z")\
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**Author:** ![DeadlyAccurate](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ac91a4/32.png) [@DeadlyAccurate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DeadlyAccurate)\
**Post date:** [March 14, 2007, 4:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-we-love-our-cats-so-much-why-do-we-feed-them-crap/395741/41 "2007-03-14T04:54:10Z")

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[QUOTE=Arnold Winkelried]  
anecdotal evidence, meaning that you have a cat that starved to death because it refused to eat the brand of cat food you were buying?  
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Of course not. I would never let it get that far.

I found a few non-Wiki cites like [this](http://www.theproblemcat.com/food.html) one, plus the one **delphica** found.

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**Author:** ![Arnold\_Winkelried](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Arnold\_Winkelried](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Arnold_Winkelried)\
**Post date:** [March 14, 2007, 2:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-we-love-our-cats-so-much-why-do-we-feed-them-crap/395741/42 "2007-03-14T14:15:38Z")

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[QUOTE=Tamerlane]  
I doubt that happens often, as a deliberate stubborness. But cats are apparently prone to hepatic lipidosis, wherein a fasting cat can, potentially, get itself into a medically bad condition sometimes in as little as a couple of days of fasting. …  
So less voluntary starving themselves, than vulnerable to badly damaging themselves when going into a food snit ( or stressed or sick or whatever ).  
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I see that. Ignorance fought! But the impression I get from that article was that the cats getting that disease were not eating because of stress or another disease, not due to “pickyness”. Though I do notice that the article says “when a cat stops eating due to stress, another disease or for any other reason.” I suppose cats are more fragile than I thought they were.

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