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Cairycat

(1,773 posts) Tue Jan 7, 2025, 03:31 PM Jan 7

Would you eat it?

From my hometown newspaper:
https://www.timesrepublican.com/news/todays-news/2025/01/arl-director-faces-canned-gravy-coated-adversary/

An October challenge issued by the Animal Rescue League (ARL) of Marshalltown culminated in a hilarious Facebook live stream on Thursday.

The challenge issued by Executive Director Austin Gillis was to raise $100,000 by Dec. 31. If the public was able to do that, he would eat a can of pet food on live stream. The final total of money raised was $102,416.35, $10,000 of which was raised in the final three days.

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Gillis then stabbed a significantly larger chunk of beef, getting some of the gravy in his beard. His hand covered his mouth and told the viewers the chunk was too big to swallow. Gillis shook his head.

“I do not recommend,” he said. “I do not. I do not, at all, recommend this to anyone.”

The dog food may have been chunky, but that's a nice chunk of change to help animals, wouldn't you say?

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Would you eat it? (Original Post) Cairycat Jan 7 OP

I've eaten dry cat food. It's greasy and bland and I don't recommend it, Ocelot II Jan 7 #1

Some of the seafood pate canned cat food flavors... 3catwoman3 Jan 7 #2

There are poor senior citizens who eat TexasBushwhacker Jan 7 #4

I do know of this sad situation, and did not mean to be making light of it. 3catwoman3 Jan 7 #6

I didn't think you were making light of it n/t TexasBushwhacker Jan 7 #7

If I Committed To It For Charity... ProfessorGAC Jan 7 #3

I commend him Skittles Jan 7 #5

Ocelot II

(121,911 posts)

1. I've eaten dry cat food. It's greasy and bland and I don't recommend it,

Reply to Cairycat (Original post)

Tue Jan 7, 2025, 03:37 PM

Jan 7

but it's no worse than Brussels sprouts.

3catwoman3

(25,871 posts)

2. Some of the seafood pate canned cat food flavors...

Reply to Cairycat (Original post)

Tue Jan 7, 2025, 04:09 PM

Jan 7

...sound pretty tempting. So far, I've resisted.

TexasBushwhacker

(20,787 posts)

4. There are poor senior citizens who eat

Reply to 3catwoman3 (Reply #2)

Tue Jan 7, 2025, 07:11 PM

Jan 7

cat food tuna, which is considerably funnier than people food tuna. It's also not "human grade" food because it includes bones that cats can digest, but we can't.