{"id":80,"date":"2008-05-28T18:44:37","date_gmt":"2008-05-28T18:44:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/midlifedog.com\/index.php\/a-dogs-life\/species-discrimination-media-favors-the-fat-cats\/"},"modified":"2008-05-28T18:44:37","modified_gmt":"2008-05-28T18:44:37","slug":"species-discrimination-media-favors-the-fat-cats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/midlifedog.com\/index.php\/a-dogs-life\/species-discrimination-media-favors-the-fat-cats\/","title":{"rendered":"Species discrimination? Media favors the fat cats."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Uh-oh. My mom Cathy usually fast-forwards through the television commercials.<\/p>\n<p>This time she didn&#8217;t pull the trigger fast enough and we caught a commercial for (what else) Fancy Feast Cat Food.<img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/midlifedog.com\/images-2\/catfood.gif\" alt=\"cat enjoying food\" align=\"right\" height=\"135\" hspace=\"5\" vspace=\"5\" width=\"200\" \/><\/p>\n<p>This well-regarded company has come out with a new flavor &#8212; Chicken Tuscany.<\/p>\n<p>Tuscany? Gimme a break. Does Fancy Feast really add these subtle flavorings and by the way, who&#8217;s doing the taste testing? How do we know cats share human tastes?<\/p>\n<p>And where is the canine equivalent of Fancy Feast? Imagine a commercial with one of those toy breeds, featuring some gourmet dinner served in a designer dish.<\/p>\n<p>Let&#8217;s get real. Feature a mixed breed adopted dog like me, eating a delicious bowl of crunchies following a hard day&#8217;s nap.  A hungry dog doesn&#8217;t care about the dish and won&#8217;t notice the subtlety of the flavors. We&#8217;re not finicky like those cats. I won&#8217;t even tell you what I eat in the dog park.<\/p>\n<p>But if push comes to shove, I won&#8217;t turn down a delicately flavored dish of Burgndy beef&#8230;heavy on the beef, please, with a couple of peanut butter treats for dessert.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Uh-oh. My mom Cathy usually fast-forwards through the television commercials. This time she didn&#8217;t pull the trigger fast enough and we caught a commercial for (what else) Fancy Feast Cat Food. This well-regarded company has come out with a new flavor &#8212; Chicken Tuscany. Tuscany? Gimme a break. Does Fancy Feast really add these subtle &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/midlifedog.com\/index.php\/a-dogs-life\/species-discrimination-media-favors-the-fat-cats\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Species discrimination? Media favors the fat cats.<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/midlifedog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/midlifedog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/midlifedog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/midlifedog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/midlifedog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=80"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/midlifedog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/midlifedog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/midlifedog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/midlifedog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}