I had a call from Nicole in California who had read that the linings of cans can be toxic. I said I’d look into it and like so many of my dedicated listeners, she took me at my word! When I didn’t come up with the goods, she gently wrote me back. [HOWEVER I have not heard back from Nicole subsequently, so I am putting this out there to everyone and anyone: please dig around to find out whether there is anything written about the toxicity of the lining of metal cans.]
Hello Tracie – Sorry to bother you, but I’ve been looking all over your web site each week, and haven’t seen anything (just yet) about which metal cat food cans might have that weird chemical sprayed on the inside of them which might be toxic to cats? You mentioned it awhile ago on one of your shows, and stated you would look into it. However, I fear most companies aren’t so willing to share that kind of information.
Harley gets Weruva now, he digs it, and I heard the owner say he knew for sure it is not in his cans (cause they make their own cans). Bravo. But, I like to mix in other varieties from time to time cause, honestly, Harley gets a little bored. Maybe you will bring it back up on one of your shows. Thanks again. Keep up the good work.
I wrote Nicole back:
You know I haven’t been able to find out much about it on a superficial look. How would you like to do a little leg work and be a “detective” and assist me in looking for facts? Some of my listeners do that to help me out — I have no assistance of any kind so sometimes research and follow-up becomes an insider group effort! I believe that if you type in two words like metal cans + warnings or metal cans + toxicity or some combination of words, you may come up with some interesting links or results which you can share with me. As for Weruva, there are a huge number of flavors so Harley would never have to get bored! But lets get to the bottom of this together, if you’re willing.
Tracie
The Cat Bible
UPDATE FROM NICOLE:
Hey there, my cat’s best friend.
Thanks for putting that message out there. I did appreciate your reply to my initial letter, but as my work is so busy around “tax time”, I had put it aside for a couple of weeks hoping to begin inquiring to cat food companies after April 15th when I have a little more time. Awesome that I can get a little more help from all of your loyal listeners/readers. Maybe between the thousands of us we can formulate some kind of idea about how many cans actually contain this bad stuff.Then we can make intelligent decisions about which food companies we buy from.
Chat with you soon.Nicole
