Dear forumers,
I need some help because I am baffled by what I discovered last night.
I am afraid of many things, like crashing my car into a tree, accidentally eating rabbit meat,the wrath of God. But there's one thing that I am so afraid of that it causes paralyzing terror - MAGGOTS! And any other lower life forms that resembles it. Asal ko badan panjang, have no legs and wiggling, I WILL MOMENTARILY DIE upon seeing you. And when the initially shock wears off, I will RUN screaming like a girl (even though I am a girl). I do not know why I have a phobia of maggots. All I know is that I've had it for so many years. Maggots and I will never see eye to eye. They are utterly disgusting creatures and I can only hope they think the same of me (but I smell nicer) so that they too would stay far away from me.
ANYWAY(! ya ya i tend to blab on and on
),
I was feeding my cat last night so without much thought I poured her kibbles into her bowl. Suddenly, I saw something moving in it and without having to look closer, I recognized it was a WORM!
AAAAAA!
I am not being dramatic. I swear I could not move for a few seconds in fear that it would notice me and come directly after me. I was so shocked. In my 11 years of living with cats, I have NEVER FOUND WORMS/MAGGOTS IN DRY CAT FOOD.
How could this be? I can only think to blame the petshop because this was the first time I bought food from them. 1 kg of repacked Sportsman's Pride. I have bought repacked food before in the past (several kg skali gus) from my regular petshop but tak pernah in all those years jumpa binatang hidup yg tak sepatutnya berada dalam tu. Worse yet, belum sempat I nak buang the bowl of food tu, my cat dah makan dengan ulat2 tu skali. I can never look at her the same again!!!
Luckily, according to the internet, it won't make her sick. If anything, it's just extra protein for her. Afterwards, I checked the empty container and found some more of them crawling at the bottom!!!
YA ALLAH! Apa lagi, I pun screwed the lid shut and threw it out.
Yang I heran benar is mcm mana ada benda tu dalam DRY food? So I googled and discovered that ulat tu is the same kind you find in other dried goods like tepung and pasta and if your kitchen becomes infested with them it would be hard to get rid of. They're called mealworms. The larvae of beetles. Now, before I go and make a complaint with the petshop (that I will never buy repacked food from again), I just nak tanya if any one of you pernah terjumpa benda2 disgusting ni dalam kibbles food anak2 bulu korang. I can only think that it came from the process of repacking kat kedai tu. Because before this, I've never found such a thing in my kitchen or any other dried goods stored in there. Plus, I keep my dry cat food in an air tight container thus it was not exposed to air or flies and any other creatures. I beli yg 1kg kat petshop tu pun only for one of my cats yg mengada tak nak makan food yg dah ada. So to avoid her death, beli lah skit utk dia but kalau macam ni aku mati dulu kot ada benda2 mcm tu
. Sedangkan I store 20 kgs of cat food pun tak pernah ada ulat, ini satu kg je. I highly suspect that mmg it was in the pack when I bought it. Surely it can't be the brand of cat food(first time beli this brand) because most kibbles are stripped of moisture when they make it and in the process kill unwanted pests.
I'm sorry if I'm being dramatic but maggots/worms/larvae are a big deal to me. Plus, I don't want my cats to be eating such things
. Why should I pay money for things that arent suppose to be there? This is definitely worth a complaint from me and I'm not one to just be shooting my mouth complaining about every petty little thing. Obviously I do not think this is a petty matter. I'm so distressed by this sampaikan I'm extra cautious bila nak scoop makanan for them. Sigh.
Apa pendapat korang?