Re: Allergies, Linear Granuloma, and Diet

"Phil P." [EMAIL PROTECTED]  wrote:

>> >For example:
>> >
>> >From: "PawsForThought" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>> >Newsgroups: rec.pets.cats.health+behav
>> >Sent: Tuesday, October 21, 2003 7:33 AM
>> >Subject: Re: "Science Diet" Hairball Control Sensitivity
>> >
>> >"However, one of my cats anal glands became very badly impacted and
>infected
>> >from eating Science Diet"
>> >
>> >From: Darnit7 ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
>> >Subject: Re: Cat food and anal gland
>> >Newsgroups: rec.pets.cats.health+behav
>> >Date: 2001-01-05 18:50:10 PST
>> >
>> >"But I don't see how wet food would cause your kitty's [anal
>gland]problems.
>> >Seems like this vet wants to push Science Diet."
>> >
>> >She couldn't see how wet food would cause anal sac problems in the OP's
>> >cat.... but she had no doubt that SD "caused" anal sac disease in her
>> >cat....
>>
>> So you assume the SD that "caused" anal sac problems in her cat was wet
>and not
>> dry? If that's the case, okay, I see your point. But if you don't know
>whether
>> she meant wet or dry SD, how can you insist it's a lie?
>
>...because she's been vehemently against dry food since day one....

I presume you mean, since day one that she has been posting on this ng,
correct? So by your logic, this means she could never possibly have fed dry
food in her entire life, right?

You made the same mistake in a thread with me once--you presumed I was talking
about feeding my cats canned food when I was actually feeding dry. I'm not a
fan of dry food either, so perhaps that's why you assumed I didn't feed it. But
I explained that I started feeding our cats dry food when we first adopted
them, before I knew better, and I've not been successful in transitioning them
completely to canned food. So they still eat some kibble. 

 If you
>were following her posts about foods as close as you say you were, there
>would be no doubt in your mind either.... You're hardly impartial...

(snip)
>
>>Do you know for a fact she meant SD canned?
>
>Based on her posting history, absolutely *yes* --

Well, if you were mistaken about your assumption that I was talking about
canned food in a particular thread, is it impossible you are mistaken about
Lauren in thinking she has never in her life fed a cat dry food?

 although she can and
>probably will say no because it suits her agenda... like she usually does...
>
And I figured you would say that, just as I suspected she was was referring to
kibble in that post.
>
>Perhaps you can dig up a
>> post to clarify.
>
>Her posting history from day one more than clarifies it...
>
Really? You know,  you could say I'm vehemently against Tender Vittles. I'm
sure I've never posted anything favorable about Tender Vittles. So it follows I
have never ever fed it, right? But when I adopted my previous cat, I was 19
years old. What did I know about cat food? Of course I fed her Tender Vittles.
She liked it. It was easy. But over the years I came to learn that it's about
the worst possible food you can feed.

When someone pulled some of your older posts condemning Science Diet, and
pointed out that those posts contradict your more recent pronouncements on that
food, you explained that you learned more about the topic and changed your
mind. To me, that seemed like a reasonable explanation for what initially may
have seemed contradictory. Yet when Lauren explains that she used to feed dry
food, but learned more about it and changed her mind, you can't accept that as
a reasonable explanation for what seemed contradictory?