Pounce Caribbean Catch Soft Cat Treats - Pirates Must Have Stolen the Tuna
Written: Feb 08 '04
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Pros: None!
Cons: Mainly wheat flour, tuna is the 9th ingredient, not well digested, dye's used that stain.
The Bottom Line: Mainly wheat flour, tuna as the 9th ingredient. BHA, Red, Blue and Yellow dye. Pay attention - you'll see those dyes twice. Once on the treat, once on your carpet.
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| patriciak's Full Review: Pounce Caribbean Catch Soft Cat Treats |
Those of you who read my reviews know that I use treats not only to 'treat' my cats, but to stimulate appetite in one older kitty of mine who is terminally ill. While I am prepared to cut Patrick some slack re quality, his response to this treat was emphatic. Read on to see if it was positive or negative.
What You Are Supposed To Get ~Aka Package Claims
Per the label, these soft treats by Pounce, packaged in an uncharacteristic plastic container with screw-top lid, are a "Tropical Tuna Flavor" and made with "real tuna!".
They promise these "taste great...and will make a big "splash" for your cat.
The label colors are invitingly bright colors - yellow, violet, robin's egg blue, gold (hmmm...making the treasure/carribean/pirate connection?)with cute little striped fish adorning the label, along with a clever bowl-shaped cut-out on the label so that the tabby logo kitty seems to be fishing for a treat with his paw - and you see the real treats.
What Patrick Saw
Cute fish shaped treats in 3 colors - one a solid tan, one striped with bright green dye, and one with a solid red dye patch on each side. The smell...must have been appealing, he eagerly ate these and begged for more. Texture was easy on his older teeth and gums as these are initially like slightly firm play-do.
What I Saw
An ingredients list that puzzles me (see below) and within 24 hours, proof that they'd used quite a sturdy dye to color those fish. Patrick began "gifting" me with his fish late at night, and to my dismay I found the green dye from the green-striped fish treats melted deep into my carpet and has proved very difficult to remove. Even worse - though I did not give him any more of these treats, 48 hours later, he threw up the red dyed fish treats, and as you might guess, I now have a stubborn red-dye stain on my bedroom carpet. I am horrified that this treat remained in his system, **undigested** for 48 hours. Yes, I looked and yes, they came out whole with their stupid dyed color visible before it ran everywhere as I tried to clean it up.
What is in these indigestible treats?
Oddly enough, very little "seafood" is contained. Maybe the tuna was stolen by Pirates?
Wheat Flour,Liver,Beef,Glycerine,Water sufficient for processing, Chicken Meal, Torula Dried Yeast, Animal Fat(BHA and Citric Acid used as preservatives),Tuna - here it is the 9th listed ingredient, Calcium Sulfate, Dried Egg Product, Phosphoric Acid, Dried Cheese Product, Potassium Chloride, Salt, Potassium Sorbate(used as a preservative), Titanium Dixoide, Yellow 5, Red 40, Blue 1, BHA (used as a preservative).
Guaranteed Analysis
Crude Protein...(min)15%, Crude Fat...(min)7%,Crude Fiber...(max)1.5%, Moisture...(max)35%.
Final Thoughts
I do not recommend Pounce Caribbean Catch Soft Cat Treats, and neither does Patrick. If I want him to have flavored wheat flour treats, I'll use a quality bake at home treat such as the Buddy Biscuits for cats by Cloudstar. If I want him to enjoy a tuna treat with high nutritional quality and appetite stimulating appeal, I'll give him Kitty Kaviar (see my review). This treat is nothing of the sort, it is a cute marketing idea but a very poorly conceived and executed cat treat. Not worth a single penny of your money, or a minute of your time in trying to remove the dye from your carpet.
Thanks for reading!
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