Someone had a bright idea, and I got no beef with that, I really don’t. Someone read in any number of places that canned pumpkin is a good thing to keep in the pantry if you have a pet. That it’s good for constipation, for diarrhea, for hairballs … and heck, if your pet ends up without any of those conditions, you can always make a nice pie.
So someone took that idea and decided that it would be a great idea to put pumpkin in a can with oatmeal, add some other stuff with lots of syllables, give it a cool name and sell it in pet-supply stores.
For $4 and change.
That’s $4-plus retail for pumpkin, which you can get for a less than half that for a can of organic pumpkin, with nothing else in the can, and for even less than that if you watch for a sale and don’t insist on organic. And for oatmeal, which you can buy in bulk for pennies a serving, and not a hecka lot more than that if you insist on some fancy-pant steel-cut oats in a pretty metal can.
As I said, I got nothing against the person who had the idea, and I’m sure the product is fine, even with all those multi-syllable ingredients I generally pass on.
But why spend for the cute name and the label? It’s “clinically proven” (to steal the language from the label on the left, ha!) that you don’t to spend a lot of money to feed either your pets or you a healthy diet. Here’s what I laughed at in the feed store today and put back on the shelf, left, and what I have a case of in my garage, right:
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