A Michael Broad Blog
I have not seen people mention this before. By pulling back the ring pull as far as possible as shown in the video, it increases the length of the break in the top which makes it much easier to pull off. The difference is big enough to allow someone who’s relatively physically weak to …
Here are 15 facts about ‘forever chemicals’ in pet food bags. The analysis comes from America by the Environmental Working Group (EWG) (ewg.com). ‘Forever chemicals are known as PFAS (pronounced ‘peefas’). PFAS stands for per-and polyfluoroalkyl substances if that helps you! They are ‘synthetic organofluorine chemical compounds that have multiple fluorine atoms attached to …
I am going to moan about wet cat food packaging in small sachets in the UK. The problem may not exist in other countries. Some wet cat food manufacturers should be ashamed of themselves. They create packaging for small sachets of cat food such as you see in the photograph which cannot be opened …
For international readers, Chewy is an American online retailer of pet products. I guess sometimes things go wrong and this is an example when things went badly wrong. A reader of my website and a Chewy customer emailed me the photo and the video with these words: “I was sent this cat food by …
Chudley is a small town located within the Teignbridge District Council area of Devon, England between Newton Abbot and Exeter. A cat owner is now warning other pet owners to keep their pets safe after her cat came home with a pellet from an air gun lodged in his nose. Jack is a seven-month-old …
It is time for commercial pet food manufacturers to be more concerned about how their products can harm domestic cats. There are too many instances of sloppy manufacturing which hints at a poor attitude by the manufacturers towards pet health. Here is an innocuous example. You wouldn’t give it a second thought unless and …
Feeding your cat a smaller portion helps to control his weight. Where I live, you can buy wet cat food in portion sizes ranging from 50 g through to 100 g. There is an intermediate size at 85 g. I find that my cat usually leaves about a fifth of the 100 g sachets …
There is a requirement for new portion size in UK cat food judging by the picture below: Not all domestic cats leave a lot of food behind in the bowl after feeding but a good percentage do and that includes my cats (past and present). Almost every time my cat will leave about a …
