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i feed him seafood fried in butter, fried and grilled beef, and the usual canned fish/beef type things, though i try to give him the legit stuff in the former category as his major eats

he has peridontal disease of some kind, drools and tongue poking out, so i'm trying to focus on feeding him stuff that he has to chew a bit, the grilled beef was great but when it was too charred it was making his pain worse (and i also was finding the same thing with my busted molar)

and yeah, i'm shifting towards feeding him tuna in brine as his staple, it's a bit chewy as well, and really not that expensive, maybe 2x, but cat food is like $2 a day, what difference to pay $4 a day and have a healthier cat?
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ᴛʜᴇ ᴅᴇᴀᴛʜ ᴏꜰ ᴍʟᴇᴋᴜ 10mo ago

also i stopped smoking about 18 months ago, and don't think i want to go back to it, even though it was a lesser plague on my health

nicotine is indeed toxic to many parasites but i sincerely doubt that it is any better than cinchona bark (tonic) or caffeine (which i'm pretty sure is antiparasitic as well)

the absurd taxes on nicotine are the first objection, and second objection is that it taxes my lungs and depletes me of vitamin C and D3

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Sovereign Being 10mo ago

I was over in South Africa last month. 5 x 50g of tobacco was about $20. In the UK it is around $50 for 1 50g pouch. The taxes continue to get out of hand.

I'm not familiar with cinchona bark, I will check that out.

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ᴛʜᴇ ᴅᴇᴀᴛʜ ᴏꜰ ᴍʟᴇᴋᴜ 10mo ago

cinchona bark is what is used to make "tonic" flavor... the tonic you buy in the shop is just barely a tickle of the actual extract though, the real thing is a lot more concentrated

and yes, it's antimalarial, and it also has some effect on ephinephrin receptors, alpha i think