{"id":1823,"date":"2003-12-10T00:20:16","date_gmt":"2003-12-10T04:20:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/dbnews\/2003\/12\/10\/roasted-rat-cat-food\/"},"modified":"2003-12-10T00:20:16","modified_gmt":"2003-12-10T04:20:16","slug":"roasted-rat-cat-food","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/2003\/12\/10\/roasted-rat-cat-food\/","title":{"rendered":"Roasted Rat Cat Food"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name='a2013'><\/a><\/p>\n<table width=\"537\" border=\"0\">\n<tr>\n<td>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/cyber.law.harvard.edu\/blogs\/static\/dowbrigade\/catttfoood.jpg\" width=\"547\" height=\"485\"><\/p>\n<p>Champaign, IL &#8211;<br \/>\n        The Vanger Petfood Company today introduced a new line of cat food featuring<br \/>\n        Squirrel, Robin, Mouse and Rat flavors. Company spokesperson Harry Keyster<br \/>\n        said the new line features real squirrel, robin and mouse meat, although<br \/>\n        the rat flavor is really enhanced mouse meat.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;Cats love them,&quot; said Keyster, &quot;because they are much closer to what<br \/>\n        cats are used to eating in the wild.&nbsp; Cats evolved eating rodents<br \/>\n        and birds, and they remain their favorite and healthiest food.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>He added that the products are all natural, contain no preservatives,<br \/>\n        and will produce healthier, more alert pets.<\/p>\n<p><em>In an attempt to cut off outraged comments at the pass, let me say<br \/>\n          up front that this is a fake story.&nbsp; However, the Dowbrigade firmly<br \/>\n          believes that such a product line would be quite popular, bot among<br \/>\n          cats and<br \/>\n          their<br \/>\n        human mascots.&nbsp;These ARE the natural foods of cats, after all,<br \/>\n        and you can&#8217;t reprogram the digestive system of a species in a few thousand<br \/>\n        years. How many cats do you think have hunted down cows or caught tuna<br \/>\n        on their own?<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Now, no one is claiming that this line is going to replace Kibbles<br \/>\n          or Fancy Feast.&nbsp; But as a novelty, among naturalists and vicarious<br \/>\n        predators, and in other feline niche markets, we think it has a future.&nbsp;And<br \/>\n        now that it has been featured in a dated blog entry, anyone wanting to<br \/>\n        develop this idea is going to have to talk to the Dowbrigade first.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Champaign, IL &#8211; The Vanger Petfood Company today introduced a new line of cat food featuring Squirrel, Robin, Mouse and Rat flavors. Company spokesperson Harry Keyster said the new line features real squirrel, robin and mouse meat, although the rat &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/2003\/12\/10\/roasted-rat-cat-food\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":299,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1443],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1823","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-esl-links"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1823","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/299"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1823"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1823\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1823"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1823"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1823"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}