Confirming that the canned cat food shortage continues. Dropped by the grocery to pick up food for 4 cats and…where’s all the food my cats love? Very slim pickings, and none of the smaller bags of litter were available either. Luckily I do have a small stockpile of things for both ends of the kitty.
No sweet vermouth here. Dry all day.
Plenty of tp,cat fud, and corned beef reduced!!!
Hubs went grocery shopping at our usual store on Tuesday and reported a severe shortage of our sick cat’s favorite food. I got my second shot at a different store and while I was hanging out for 15 minutes, found a goodly supply of kitty’s fav food. Everyone is happy again.
It may be a big problem especially with sick or old cats. Young healthy cats usually have enough appetite that it’ll eventually push them into eating something unfamiliar or not as favored. Old and/or sick ones often just won’t eat if they can’t get something they really like.
The oldest of my current collection is only 8; and in addition to a fair backup of what I’m usually feeding them I’ve still got about half a box full of an assorted collection of what I think of as Coaxing the Cat to Eat Food, tiny little cans of fancy stuff, all items that the previous Old Ill Cat would still eat late last summer, until she wouldn’t. So in a pinch I can feed them that – though they’d probably then be mad at me when I was eventually able to go back to the usual. Not as mad as they will be if I run out altogether, of course –
(Cat litter was still in supply at the local Tractor Supply. I did get some more of that.)
I had a couple of 32-ct boxes of the Princess’s favorite Friskies Pate (she likes the Seafood Favorites pack), but am about to open one, so ordered a replacement from Walmart last week and got it.
Non-cola diet soda is quite difficult in my area, which is a problem when you have a diabetic who’s trying to avoid phosphoric acid in the household.
Sadly, I know just what you are talking about when you mentioned your collection of Coaxing Kitty to Eat food. We ran through that while our FIV kitty was trying to die of starvation, but did find several sorts of pate that he likes.
If worse comes to worse, I have a baby food grinder that works nicely to turn chunky cat food unto a sort of soup.
The tail end of last summer, up until her last couple of days when she lost interest in food altogether, she’d come to me multiple times a day, meowing for food. I’d open her something, and she’d eat anywhere from one to six bites and meow at me until I opened her something else, and she’d eat one to six bites of that . . .
The rest of the crew got rather fat cleaning up the leftovers.
Her brother, the year before, would at some points take Cat Food Soup when he wouldn’t take the same thing straight out of the can. It was pate, I didn’t grind it, just mixed it up with some water.
Canned Vegetable Broth 15 oz, not the 32 oz carton. Sometimes I don’t need the larger size for my recipes.
You should check out Better Than Bouillon. It’s a base that you mix with water to make broth. They have beef, chicken and veggie. A teaspoon of that goop per cup of water and you never have to fret about having broth on hand. I;m a huge fan.
Tapioca – the minute kind for puddings and pies and thickening various edibles. There was a drought in 2019/20 that cut production, and then the whole COVID mess, and now none of the stores near me have it in stock regularly. Several have simply given up and removed the space on the shelf; others say they get it in sporadically but it sells out immediately. I resorted to mail order.
The only shortages I was seeing up to last week was for those tubs of oleo/margarine.
Thanks, I think that I’ll give it a try.
Agreeing about cat food.
In unexpected (to me) first-world problems, there seems to be a shortage of pool heaters and higher-end induction ranges. But at least I can get Charmin Ultrasoft Toilet Paper and Viva Signature Paper Towels without taking out a second mortgage these days.
It happened again today, not with Red Bull, but with Dark Rye bread, which has been in short supply over the past few weeks. Today, thankfully, there was enough of it, but it was on sale despite having been low in stock before the sale. Again, this makes no sense to me because I’m gladly willing to pay full price in order to actually buy something rather than have a sale on stuff that isn’t there.
I wonder if this isn’t some pricing algorithm that worked in normal times but fails in times of actual shortages. Like, it notices that there have been low sales of this product and so the computer tells them to have a sale, not realizing that it’s because they don’t ship enough product to sell.
I ordered a new induction cooktop around Christmas. Finally heard back from the seller and they are hoping it will be in stock by mid April 
Luckily, our current cooktop still has two working burners - the smaller ones, naturally.
I started looking back in August and at the time was told November. It was probably not the brightest idea to assume that they would catch up pretty quickly. At least the old one still works.
We actually already mix their pate with water but that’s to help with their kidneys. Amazon usually has a pretty good selection but food that won’t get here for 3-4 days doesn’t help a whole lot with feeding sick kitty today.
Our clean-up crew is getting rather portly as well.
When our dishwasher failed, we were told it would be 4+ months to get another. Hubs got in the habit of randomly checking Lowes and HomeDepot, which paid off because he managed to snag one only 2 1/2 months later.
It’s funny that almost immediately after I posted this a month ago, store brand Bran Flakes came back, and the store brand Nutty Nuggets disappeared. (But they seem to have no shortage of Grape-Nuts.)
Also the last few times I’ve been shopping, I have not been able to find zero sugar A&W root beer or Canada Dry ginger ale. At least not 12-pack cans.
Our heads almost popped off when we saw caffeine free Coke Zero (in what looks like new packaging) offered for pickup at our local Giant Eagle. We’re crossing our fingers that it’s actually available when our shopper starts our order this morning. It’s been about 8 months since we were last able to get it.