Happy holidays, everyone. I've been on a trip for a while.

I think Pete pretty well sums it up. Pet food is food. It'll nourish you, but it isn't made with human dietary needs in mind, so it's not the ideal food source for long term use if other options were available. But if I were stranded somewhere and had to pick between eating a couple cans of dog food or facing the possiblity of eating human food that could be spoiled or needing to try and find "natural" edible things to eat from the forest, I would prefer the dog food.

I remember back in kindergarden or first grade, me and my friends had one short spell when we'd pass around a box of dog treats to eat on that long school bus ride. It started as a dare, if I recall, but then we all sort of liked them. Seemed a bit hard on the teeth, though. Anyway, just a passing fad.

i have heard of climbers putting dog biscuits in the
Ten Essential's" bag..i idea being they would not be tempted
to "snack" away the survival food..also some guys took
dog bisquits as rations on a canoe trip into Labrador in
the 1960's..at least that what a Long Island newspaper
reported..another group said they met them drying the
biscuits on the rocks after a dump in a river..good story
but never found any follow up

I have heard that many of canned cat food comes off the same canning line producing people food. Same contents and same cat. Different label and the cat food sells for half the cost.

This makes a lot of sense to me. One production line and standard saves confusion, costs and possible law suits.

I don't know if you could sue if grandma got sick from eating cat food. But I do know that some of the exotic pedigreed cats are worth many thousands of dollars. If Boots the cat gets sick and keels over because of the pet food the pet food company will be getting a nasty, and expensive, certified letter from a lawyer.

Same thing with drugs labeled for animals. I talked to a vet who pointed out that those drugs are used on animals that are insured for sums of money usually reserved for large tracts of land or military spending.

I suspect that in both cases if it is considered safe for animals it is probably safe for humans.

"...canned cat food comes off the same canning line producing people food. Same contents..."


I have never opened a can of people food that smelled anything like what most cat foods do. Some of those things STINK!!!

We've never bought a can of cat foot, always the stuff in the bag. My parents have had cats for years on the farm and they eat table scraps.
I worked reatil through college and one of the cashiers was in tears one day when her shift ended. Someone wanted to buy dog food with food stamps and the law won't allow it. So he went back and picked up a big steak and brought it back through her line and paying for it with the food stamps stating that his dog was going to eat better than she did now.

OK. Out of those of you who said dog food would be an option, who is going to volunteer to test their recommendations? I think an adequate test would be eating nothing but dry dog food until a 20lb bag is gone.

Any volunteers? You can even choose your own kibble.

No problem, if I can get the venison that your dogs are getting.

Wildman is a true survivor. Queueing up in the freezer is the road kill deer. At this time of year, we recycle too.

Yesterday, we came across some deer hunters who needed diesel for their generator. We helped them out and they gave us a hind quarter of venison as a thank-you!!!!

Guess what is for lunch today????

What time can you get here???