To want to turn my cats vegetarian after this?

[mycatwantstokillme1]

Tesco delivery just turned up, very nice delivery man bought everything into the kitchen, I bid him farewell and he left. Unpacking the shopping, 2 boxes of Felix come out. Once looks like the corner of the box has become soaking wet and it stank like a dustbin. Thought it might just be the outside of the box so opened it up, took the first pouch out.

Fuck, it was like something out of a fucking horror movie. Out a tiny little hole this THING started crawling out, it was yellow and looked like it had a million legs, I thought it was a spider until the legs started separating, they were bastard, bastard, bastard maggots.

I called the tesco customer service line, finally got through, the poor guy on the other end probably thought he was a psychiatrist, he had to counsel me through the fact there was a box of Felix sprouting maggots on the kitchen worktop. He offered me a refund & a £5.00 gift voucher, I told him I didn't want the gift voucher, I just wanted the maggots out of my flat (I didn't realise I had it in me to be so hysterical)

He said the delivery bloke would come back and get them, I agreed so he could see what a cesspit of filthy little crawling bastards of evil that Tesco had brought into my home. The poor driver came back, lovely man he was, he seemed more reluctant than me to look in the box and see the maggots. I gave him the bag and off he's gone with it. Went into the garden to have a fag to calm my nerves and trod on a fucking bastard snail so now I have snail slime all over my sandals.

I don't drink but am considering having a tot of perfume to calm my nerves - it has alcohol in it doesn't it?

I've always been grateful for the fact that the only insects that freak me out are wasps and daddy long legs but tonight I've realised I can add maggots to the list. I want to disinfect the kitchen. I know I'm ridiculous but it was like that first scene of Alien FFS. Just keep thinking, what if I had left the dry food to put away until the morning, I would have had a cupboard full of maggots.

Mr Tibbs is never having meat again!!

Eurgh. A pouch of cat food had gone rotten in a big box I had bought online. The smell was fucking disgusting. I usually have a pretty strong stomach, but this smell was something else. It made me heave and the smell was stuck in my nose for hours. Nasty.

Maggots don't bother me though.

www.veggiepets.com/shop/vegetarian-vegan-cat-food.html

There you go OP^ veggie and vegan cat food. Whether or not your cat deigns to eat it is another issue

You should have fed the maggots to the cat. I bet he'd have loved them.

The problem is caused by either a) sealing fault or b) under processing in the retort used to sterilise the pouches (food technologist). If it happens again take photo and email manufacturer with batch code and BB date

It's all going to be fine - thanks for the link. I've just seen the price though so I may force myself to go back to meat, but I swear when old Tibbs bites the bullet I'm never getting another cat again! The smell is still in my throat, and I am now even more eternally grateful to all the public service workers that deal with rubbish, dead bodies etc etc on a daily basis because I couldn't do it.

I like the sound of TIbbs becoming a hippy, having his own instagram though so I'm a bit torn.

And here's the old boy, completely oblivious to all the drama he caused!

I had this with a TIN of cat food once.

I used to buy them in the packs of 24 still wrapped in plastic. Fortunately (or not) I kept the stockpile in the garage, just bringing a few tins at a time into the kitchen (I had several mogs back then)
I think one tin had been bashed so that the seal round the ring-pull top had fractured.
When I unwrapped the plastic and the stench hit me & I saw the maggots I threw up all over the garage floor.

Oh fuck so tins can harbour the devil as well?
Ok he's going on to dry food, he'll have to visit the neighbours for meat!

We once got a box of pouches where one had split open, the smell was foul.

But, no maggots. And that has only happened once in over 15 years of cat ownership.

Just feed him as normal.

I buy Felix!

Freaked out by this now. Don't know what I'll find

Just to add to the gross factor on this thread.

Once, when on holiday, I had asked /paid) someone to go and feed my cat daily.

When I arrived, it was very dirty around the bowl and, yes, there were maggots around and under the bowl. (I never asked her again, btw).

Rainbow Jack I suppose if I put it in perspective, I'm 44 and had childhood cats, and cats nearly all my adult life and it's never happened before. But it was so revolting I don't think I'll ever be able to open a pouch or tin again. Keep going into the kitchen looking for anything wriggly. And some of them were green as well as yellow. I emailed Tesco the photos we took but you could barely see them by this point as they were underneath the pouch and me and my son were too freaked to either turn them over, rummage in the box or get the camera too close. Mind you, some of these stories seem a lot, lot worse. I can't stop thinking about the exploding tin of rancid cat food or poster puking on the lawn at the bin. Yuck, yuck yuck!!

Iams complete cat food

Our cats thrive on Applaws complete cat food. If you switch to dry you'll have to transition him over gradually, so I'm afraid you might have a few more days of My Potential Maggot Hell before you can go completely fresh meat free.

You have my sympathy OP. In a former life when my previous cats were on tinned food, I once came back from holiday to find the kitchen bin infested with maggots because the pet sitter had scraped some uneaten food straight into the bin. Like a PP it made me vomit, although I did manage to make it to the kitchen sink. I threw the bin out completely because I couldn't face taking the lid off to clean it out and seeing them again. Yuck, yuck, yuck indeed!

Mouth of Misery, he has IAMS in the morning and a pouch at night, but for now he'll be on complete IAMS!

Page thanks, I'll try the Applaws as well. BTW I just read your story on the ghost thread so I think tonight I may dream of being chased through woods by giant sized maggots! That was truly scary, I'll have to sleep with the cat tonight!

Joangray your cat is a wuss!

OP ask Mr Tibbs to deal with all matters relating to his food in the future. He wants to eat, he can open pouches and deal with potential maggots himself!

I found it interesting that the comment on turning the cat vegetarian received more concern that the comment about drinking perfume...

VegasCP

That's because being a vegetarian should be the cat's choice.

As for the OP, she can drink whatever she wants. Perfume used to be a perfectly valid drink for the alcoholic lady of yore.

catwantstokilleme

You are at least entitled to a replacement packet of Felix, surely.

Maggots are gross! We have a sinful of the little bleeders almost every week. Our cats kill rabbits, mice, voles, moles, shrews birds (incl. a seagull and several magics - and those are BIG buggers) and on one occasion a STOAT! The bin is alway full of corpses. I double bag them, but in spite of my explicit instructions, DH thinks one play bag is enough. IT ISN'T! Flies manage to get in and lay their vile fly eggs and hen there hideous fly children (i.e. maggots) manage to get out of the bag and infest the bin.

The first time this happened, I SCREEEEEEEAAAAAAMED.

Now I just scoop the little bastards up and bung 'em in the fish pond. They don't last long with Finny and Swimmy . . .

At this point someone needs to defend the poor maggots.

Did you know that maggots can and have been used to eat decomposing flesh in infections that can't be treated with antibiotics?

They are great.

even though I am grossed out by them

Harder and Harder, Tibbs is a lazy sod, he'd probably starve if he had to forage in the garden himself for his own food!

2kids, I don't think I'd ever be able to get used to the smell of the fuckers, even if I could get used to the wriggling. You are one brave woman!

Lweji I couldn't remember if it was maggots that did that. Jesus I'd want to live but I think they'd have to sedate me!

Tibbs has rejected his IAMS tonight. He'll break before I do, though.