Vintage cat food commercials from You Tube

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[albear.livejournal.com]

The cats in the top commercial are ugly! man, they looked like they were plucked from the pound as is, didn't even bother to comb their fur. And the second commercial, oh man! sad times when the latest and the greatest special effect was the back and forward. Sad times the 70's.

[thebazu.livejournal.com]

aw, why you gotta be hatin'? that's how cats were in the 70s, before boob jobs and brazilians.

[rainbow-goddess.livejournal.com]

I think it's more likely the quality of the video.

[queen-fiend.livejournal.com]

Cats are never ugly! The back and forward did make me lol though.

[misstia]

the 70s were awesome and these commercials were fun then and are still fun!

[tudorlady.livejournal.com]

I remember the 'chow chow chow' lady!!! I like that she looks real, yanno? I doubt she could get cast in an ad now :(

[rainbow-goddess.livejournal.com]

I remember the "chow chow chow" too! One of my sister's friends used to try to teach our cat to do the chow chow chow. I don't know if she realized it was camera work. :-)

And I like the "real" lady too!

[bigkidsid.livejournal.com]

looks like she'ws been eating "cat chow"

[xayeidemon.livejournal.com]

I thought they were cute. And I'm trying to figure out how and why I remember seeing them on TV. I wasn't born until the 80s. Did Purina do updated versions of these? I distinctly remember that "dancing" chow chow chow cat.

[rainbow-goddess.livejournal.com]

I've never seen the cats on the beach one, but I imagine that the chow-chow-chow cat commercials could have been used well into the 80s.

[emmuzka.livejournal.com]

I'm not American, and I always thought that "chow" was a slang word for low-grade human food. But cat food actually went with the name "cat chow" then? Learn something new every day...

[moonjaguar.livejournal.com]

It's heinous crappy cat food now but in the '70s it was pretty much the best one could get-- what with commercial dry cat food being only widely available since about 1965 or a little later.

[tabaqui]

Chow is just slang for food in general, or how you eat, or a time. Like - 'Dinner's ready, everybody chow down' or 'time for chow'. It was an military thing, too, you got 'chow' in the 'chow hall' or 'mess hall'.

So in that sense, it really *was* low-grade human food. :)

[whoseline_wlsc]

I think the first one was really cute!

[moonjaguar.livejournal.com]

Oh man, I remember me and everybody I knew wondering why the Chow Chow Chow lady was wearing the same outfit our 80-year-old grannies were wearing!

[tabaqui]

Yay, Chow chow chow lady! Those were so cute. :)

[tabaqui]

Yay, Chow chow chow lady! Those were so cute. :)

[vix.livejournal.com]

Those were awesome! Who knew Woody Allen did commercial voiceovers in the '70s. ;)