fazur wrote: ↑Sat Apr 04, 2020 2:28 pm

Doc67 wrote: ↑Fri Apr 03, 2020 9:26 pm well seeing as they eat rats I can't see cats getting a pass...

i misread this as cats eat rats, lol

never seen a cat brave enough to tackle a large cambodia rat

You wrong

John Bingham wrote: ↑Fri Apr 03, 2020 10:50 pm About 15 years ago I lived near Wat Botum and got burgled. So the family loaned me a dog. The only problem being that many dogs here are fed on scraps and whatever they can scavenge. I wasn't doing much cooking so I had to go around to Pencil and buy cans of food. It was fucking $2.50 a can or something, way more expensive than human food at the time.

Canned pet food is expensive. It costs about the same here as it does in the US, making it comparatively crazy expensive. If it ever happens again, get yourself the big ass bag of dry food. It's a much cheaper approach, and the dog should still be happy to not dig through the garbage or eating leftover bones and old food.

Electric Earth wrote: ↑Fri Apr 03, 2020 4:16 pm

rozzieoz wrote: ↑Thu Apr 02, 2020 5:50 pm Before I get slammed for helping cats and not kids, I am also working on some fundraising for ABCs and Rice, which provides meals to children.

https://www.gofundme.com/f/cans-for-cat ... hare-sheet

If you have any small change to spare

Nothing wrong with trying to help innocent animals in need. They need someone to. Anyone who's gonna slam you for that is an asshole.

Nothing wrong with it at all.. I work with people (NGO) and there are still no shortages of assholes to hate on my work either..

khmerinade wrote: ↑Sat Apr 04, 2020 4:29 pmNothing wrong with it at all.. I work with people (NGO) and there are still no shortages of assholes to hate on my work either..

That's true. If there's one thing I've learned with certainty in life, it's that there's never a shortage of assholes. Keep up the good fight.

rozzieoz wrote: ↑Thu Apr 02, 2020 5:50 pm Before I get slammed for helping cats and not kids, I am also working on some fundraising for ABCs and Rice, which provides meals to children.

https://www.gofundme.com/f/cans-for-cat ... hare-sheet

If you have any small change to spare

I'm a cat lover. However, somehow I'm not ok with buying canned cat food for $1.50 a can for 'street cats' in Cambodia. (Im presuming that these cats that are getting fed are homeless strays ?)
It's a lot more work, but on every level, IMO it is better to buy some cheap raw meat and cook it up and add some rice. A Khmer cat that doesn't eat rice is not going to live long. This is cheaper, more environmentally-friendly (cans are not great), and closer to what these cats are used to eating. As I said, I love cats, but in my experience, if you start to feed them on Sheba (canned cat food) or tins of tuna, or whatever processed foods they might enjoy, then they get picky and unhappy if you start feeding them standard stay-alive food scraps. Cambodian cats don't naturally eat tinned cat food, but they get to like it fast, just like humans like to eat fast food.

Not slamming anyone's efforts to help stray cats, but surely in the long run, it's better to give them 'real' food. The pet food industry is not something worth supporting anyway, and do you know what's in the cans ? (Lots of water anyway.)
Sorry if this is not helpful Roz, but I have a thing about the complete waste of space that is canned pet food, especially in the context of countries where it is a struggle to feed the population.

Go spay and neuter some feral cats!

Johanna takes cats off the street and gets them desexed. She cares for them in her home so she really is doing what she can to help the problem.

She doesn’t normally do fundraising, but these are extraordinary times we are living in and I felt she could use the help. I’m picking one cause at a time and at the moment, this is it.

Thank you to everyone who has been kind and supportive.

I should add - this fundraiser is to cover 7 cans a day for 26 cats. They also eat dry food (kibble) and some other stuff.

I will cover the dry food for the next couple of months.