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Wondering if the dry food I got will be good for a few months once opened if I keep it clipped shut with bag clips. I read a few websites saying it’s onky good for about 3 weeks!
Yep, you can parcel it out and freeze it in small batches and then transfer it back to the fridge after three days. Freezing kills the mites so they can’t keep having mite sex and growing their numbers. Bigger populations of mites increase the possibility of allergic reaction for cats (and dogs) that are susceptible. For cats that are extremely allergic to storage mites, even dead ones could trigger a reaction. (I learned all about this when I was trying to figure out what’s causing Lily’s allergies. It’s not storage mites, though.)(*&_^*(*(*) If she'd eat wet food, she'd be eating it. She'd rather starve.
So, once I put the food in the sandwich bags, can I just put them in the freezer for 3 days? And that howl you hear will be my sister, insisting there isn't room, it isn't needed... etc etc etc. Maybe I could put a few bags in at a time.
I really don't deal well with bugs, or meat. I'm always terrified the wet food meat will be bad and I won't recognize that it is.
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I put the opened bag sealed by clips in the fridge
Well, to be fair, I think that's the only kind of sex that mites can have.Freezing kills the mites so they can’t keep having mite sex
So will a storage container like this help? It’s nasty that there could be mites in the food!!!!Storage mites are members of the arachnid family and are a fairly common allergen for cats and dogs apparently. I don’t mind spiders, but the thought of these little critters in my cats’ food is pretty unappealing!
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