Conference misery::feline_v1

    I've never heard of Perform; however, at the Boston Cat Show I received
    samples of a new food called "Lick Your Chops" (both canned and
    dry).  When I opened the can it smelled awful, but Chauncey and
    Nikki loved it!  I haven't seen it in stores yet but was amazed
    that they ate it so fast.  Knowing them, though, it was a novelty
    and they'll probably snub their noses up at it the second time around.
    

    I saw this ad too.  I have not tried the food, but its a neat marketing
    concept.  "We deliver fresh to your door".  They will deliver on
    a regular schedule a specified amount of food.
    
    Just like the milkman!  One more giant step for the 'distinctive'
    cat owner who only bought food from a GRAIN store.  I guess its
    the maturity of the cat food market.  It will be interesting to
    see if it is really a superior product....
    
    Cathy

    E-gad, yuppie cat food!
    
    I can see the Volvo with spiral antenna pulling up now, the Reeboks
    padding quietly up to the door, the rustle of a Burberry overcoat...
    
    Edd

    RE .-1 -- I don't see why you say Peform is "yuppie cat food."   Just
    because something has quality (or bills itself as such) means that it's
    yuppie?  You might just as well say the same thing about IAMS and
    Science Diet.  Perform (which is made by Carnation Company, by the way)
    compares itself to those; from the ad, it seems that the major
    difference is that they have home delivery. Prices (for the dry adult
    cat food) seem comparable to IAMS (Perform is $5 for 3� lbs., $10 for 7
    lbs., $20 for 20 lbs.).  There are no extra shipping charges, it says. 

    I'm tempted to try it. The ad says there's a 100% guarantee (replacement
    or refund if you or your pet are not satisfied).  

    It would be interesting to know what veterinarians have to say.

							-- Nina

    P.S.  I'm not jumping on Edd, and I don't mean to start an argument
    on yuppieness!  I don't have strong feelings about it; it just seemed
    like kind of an odd remark...

    No offense taken, it takes far more than that to set me off...
    
    It wasn't the quality issue that prompted my remark, it was the
    'delivered to your door' part. I pictured it as "just the thing
    for the couple (single?) pursuing all the finer things life has
    to offer yet still finding themselves without enough quality time
    to share with their felines"
    
    Edd (who cracks up everytime he sees an executive meeting on a rainy
         day and everyone shows up wearing the same raincoat)

    Ed, the yuppie reaction is the same one I had towards "Sheba" cat
    food.  Out here in Califonia it is a new brand, $.69 for a 3.5 once
    tin (not canned, never canned!)
    
    The TV ads call if the "brand for descriminating cat owners" (sounds
    like they want us to eat the stuff!) and says that in Ancient Egypt
    cats were treated like royalty and that if we all loved our cats
    we would buy Sheba food. (very rough sketch of the content of the
    commercial, I'm afraid)
    
    I got a free can of it at a cat show.  It looks just like a canned
    ham when you open it up.  It smelled like a canned ham, it had gel
    like a canned ham, but it must not have tasted like a canned ham
    because even Kalliste wouldn't touch it!
    
    Do any of you see Sheba in your grocery stores or are we a test
    market out here in California?
    
    jo

    I gave aja a 'tin' of Sheba once. She ate it. No big deal, she
    ate Calo once when I first got her. Nothing discriminating about
    her.
    
    Edd

    To the extent that Niniane and Charm both adore canned (or "tinned"
    I guess) food, to the extent that they inhale most varieties, and
    to the extent that, being Siamese, it often returns at about roughly the
    same speed as it went down, they liked Sheba well enough.  It would
    seem, from my experience, the formula goes something like:
    
    The smell from the cat food when the can is opened is directly
    proportional to how much your cat likes the food.
    
    Mary-Michael

    Isn't this the commercial where the woman lifts the plate of cat
    food up to her face and inhales (ack!) the odor, smiling dreamily, 
    before presenting it to her cat? As .8 points out, the smellier the 
    food, the more cats adore it. [Can you envision this scene being 
    filmed, over and over, while the actress tries to portray just the right 
    expression of ecstacy?]
    
    Seems obvious to me that the marketing types who created this
    commercial don't know cats! 

    
    Investment forcasters are saying the service industry is going
    to grow significantly in the next few years.  Delivery to your door
    will be in great demand.  It seems the makers of this product did
    their marketing research. :-)  Whether they made a better product
    may not matter, if people think the service is more important.
    
    Now if they could do my grocery shopping and deliver to my door...
    :-)
    

    When they delivery, do they do windows, vacuum, scoop poop, and
    comb hairs ??  Boy, I wish......