| Practice with dog food |
| * Rover as food storage surrogate | Charlie | 09/29/97 | |
| * Eating dog and bird food???? ???? | Al Durtschi | 09/30/97 | |
| * What do they coat bird seed with? | Charlie | 09/29/97 | |
| * What about sprouting it? | Will Richards | 09/29/97 | |
Date:
September 29, 1997 04:49 PM
Author: Charlie
(cgoodrich1@juno.com)
Subject: Rover as food storage surrogate
Many people are timid when it comes to starting a storage program. I have heard that dog food is edible and will sustain life. Would it be possible to buy a few extra large bags of dry food for your dog and begin feeding him out of the most dated bag? When the bag is empty open the next oldest one and buy a new one for storage. THe point of all this is that when the crisis occurs you may have a hundred pounds or so of edible stuff that doesn't cost much. Also, it is easier to learn how to rotate your stock into your pet's diet than trying to figure out how to rotate dated grains into your own.
(http://garynorth.entrewave.com/forums/Index.cfm?CFApp=16&Message_ID=3257)
Date:
September 30, 1997 06:47 PM
Author: Al Durtschi
(rcox@mail.lcc.whecn.edu)
Subject: Eating dog and bird food???? ????
I can understand eating any kind of pet food if you were starving, but I have a hard time believing you are serious when you say you are planning on eating dog and bird food when the hard times come. Why not plan and prepare to eat people food? I think you will be a lot happier with this decision.
Al
(http://garynorth.entrewave.com/forums/Index.cfm?CFApp=16&Message_ID=3328)
Date:
September 29, 1997 04:58 PM
Author: Charlie
(cgoodrich1@juno.com)
Subject: What do they coat bird seed with?
Commercial wild bird seed is available in bulk at Wal-Mart. It is mostly millet which as far as I know is edible. The bag says that the seed is coated with "vitamins" to improve the bird diet. If this coating is not harmful to us humans one could buy a few extra bags of bird seed and start rotating it through the bird feeder - using the oldest bag of seed when one is empty and replacing it faithfully. When the crisis develops simply stop feeding the birds and figure out how to grind the millet into flour.
(http://garynorth.entrewave.com/forums/Index.cfm?CFApp=16&Message_ID=3258)
Date:
September 29, 1997 07:25 PM
Author: Will Richards
Subject: What about sprouting it?
I have wondered the same thing. The cheap kind will grow in your lawn and it is cheap. When I get a chance i plan on writing the manufacturer.
I have ate dog food and I won't do it again. The military called it the C-ration, we called it ALPO. Nope not for me. But don't forget about the hounds they will need food to.
(http://garynorth.entrewave.com/forums/Index.cfm?CFApp=16&Message_ID=3275)