Normally, at this point in the year, I would be ordering one portion of jambon de Bayonne from Ocado for Louis Catorze’s birthday, another from the Natoora deli in Chiswick as a back-up, and some jamón ibérico from Waitrose, just in case.
However, because the little sod has just been diagnosed with hyperthyroidism, it’s a hard NON to any foods intended for humans.
I know that a piece the size of my fingernail probably wouldn’t make him keel over and die, but he’d only scream for more and we’d end up giving in, especially after a couple of Screaming Roi cocktails. So it’s all or nothing. Well, not so much of the “all”. Just the “nothing”.
Too much iodine is, apparently, bad news for Catorze, so it’s adieu to the fish skins that he used to love. The good people at Orijen have advised me of the iodine levels of their different variants, and Six Fish has the second-highest. (Cat Daddy: “We’ve been feeding him dangerous food for years!”) So we’ve made the decision to swap to Original Cat, which is rated the second-lowest.
Here’s a dull chart for anyone who’s interested, going from lowest to highest in iodine:
- Orijen Fit & Trim Cat: 2.10 mg/kg iodine as fed. (Why give a too-skinny cat food designed for too-fat cats, right?)
- Orijen Original Cat: 2.20 mg/kg iodine as fed.
- Orijen Guardian 8: 2.56 mg/kg iodine as fed.
- Orijen Kitten: 2.57 mg/kg iodine as fed.
- Orijen Regional Red: 2.99mg/kg iodine as fed.
- Orijen Six Fish: 3.38mg/kg iodine as fed.
- Orijen Tundra: 4.00 mg/kg iodine as fed. (This is the most expensive of the lot, so Cat Daddy rejoiced when he heard that it wasn’t a viable contender.)
(No idea what “as fed” means. I’m guessing it just means served from the pack as it is, as opposed to drizzled with squid ink and nori flakes?)
So … not quite the Catorzian birthday planning that I’d anticipated. But if we stick to The Rules, hopefully he will have more birthdays.
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