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Old April 30th 04, 04:25 PM
badwilson
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I've been wondering why Vino has been such a food hound lately. Finally
clued in that he wasn't eating his dry food at all. I put him in front of
the bowl and tried to get him to eat, but he stiff-armed the bowl and backed
away from it. I dumped it and tried another flavour. He devoured it! So
the problem is that he's sick of the Iams Original flavour. That really
sucks because we have one of those big huge gigantic bags of it! And we
bring this food from Canada, aaargh! I guess I'll try to alternate bowls of
the Original with bowls of the hairball stuff (which I can sometimes find
here in Thailand). Hopefully after a bit of a layoff from the Original,
he'll go back to it.
So this evening, he stalked down a lizard. Dennis kept trying to distract
him, it worked at first but then he caught on to Dennis' trickery and gave
him a dirty look before ignoring him. He ended up precariously balancing on
the back of a chair and leaping to the top of a shelf, from which he
attacked the lizard and caught it. He jumped down from the shelf and
proceeded to devour the lizard, much to mine and Dennis' dismay. We cannot
believe that our spoiled rotten cat would prefer lizard over imported
Iams!!!
--
Britta (well, ok, I admit I'd rather have him eat his prey than to leave it,
but geeez! No kitty kisses for us tonight.)
Sandpaper kisses, a cuddle and a purr. I have an alarm clock that's covered
in fur!
Check out pictures of Vino at:
http://photos.yahoo.com/badwilson click on the Vino album





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Old April 30th 04, 05:17 PM
lewe
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"badwilson" wrote in message
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I've been wondering why Vino has been such a food hound lately. Finally
clued in that he wasn't eating his dry food at all. I put him in front of
the bowl and tried to get him to eat, but he stiff-armed the bowl and

backed
away from it. I dumped it and tried another flavour. He devoured it! So
the problem is that he's sick of the Iams Original flavour. That really
sucks because we have one of those big huge gigantic bags of it! And we
bring this food from Canada, aaargh! I guess I'll try to alternate bowls

of
the Original with bowls of the hairball stuff (which I can sometimes find
here in Thailand). Hopefully after a bit of a layoff from the Original,
he'll go back to it.
So this evening, he stalked down a lizard. Dennis kept trying to distract
him, it worked at first but then he caught on to Dennis' trickery and gave
him a dirty look before ignoring him. He ended up precariously balancing

on
the back of a chair and leaping to the top of a shelf, from which he
attacked the lizard and caught it. He jumped down from the shelf and
proceeded to devour the lizard, much to mine and Dennis' dismay. We

cannot
believe that our spoiled rotten cat would prefer lizard over imported
Iams!!!


you need to put up a warning sign by the door for those poor lizards! You
think Iams does lizard flavour?

about the dry food, you suppose it could have gotten dry? well, that sounded
clever ... I mean, even dry food does have some moisture when it's fresh,
but if it's been out in the air for some time it will get really dry and
stop smelling. have you tried to moisten it a bit to bring out the
flavour/smell?

scritches to Vino!
--
:: lewe
-------------------------------------------------------------
lewemi at yahoo dot se || cat pics: photos.yahoo.com/lewemi


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Old April 30th 04, 05:17 PM
lewe
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"badwilson" wrote in message
...
I've been wondering why Vino has been such a food hound lately. Finally
clued in that he wasn't eating his dry food at all. I put him in front of
the bowl and tried to get him to eat, but he stiff-armed the bowl and

backed
away from it. I dumped it and tried another flavour. He devoured it! So
the problem is that he's sick of the Iams Original flavour. That really
sucks because we have one of those big huge gigantic bags of it! And we
bring this food from Canada, aaargh! I guess I'll try to alternate bowls

of
the Original with bowls of the hairball stuff (which I can sometimes find
here in Thailand). Hopefully after a bit of a layoff from the Original,
he'll go back to it.
So this evening, he stalked down a lizard. Dennis kept trying to distract
him, it worked at first but then he caught on to Dennis' trickery and gave
him a dirty look before ignoring him. He ended up precariously balancing

on
the back of a chair and leaping to the top of a shelf, from which he
attacked the lizard and caught it. He jumped down from the shelf and
proceeded to devour the lizard, much to mine and Dennis' dismay. We

cannot
believe that our spoiled rotten cat would prefer lizard over imported
Iams!!!


you need to put up a warning sign by the door for those poor lizards! You
think Iams does lizard flavour?

about the dry food, you suppose it could have gotten dry? well, that sounded
clever ... I mean, even dry food does have some moisture when it's fresh,
but if it's been out in the air for some time it will get really dry and
stop smelling. have you tried to moisten it a bit to bring out the
flavour/smell?

scritches to Vino!
--
:: lewe
-------------------------------------------------------------
lewemi at yahoo dot se || cat pics: photos.yahoo.com/lewemi


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Old April 30th 04, 09:20 PM
Ted Davis
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On Fri, 30 Apr 2004 18:17:46 +0200, "lewe"
wrote:

"badwilson" wrote in message
...
I've been wondering why Vino has been such a food hound lately. Finally
clued in that he wasn't eating his dry food at all. I put him in front of
the bowl and tried to get him to eat, but he stiff-armed the bowl and

backed
away from it. I dumped it and tried another flavour. He devoured it! So
the problem is that he's sick of the Iams Original flavour. That really
sucks because we have one of those big huge gigantic bags of it! And we
bring this food from Canada, aaargh! I guess I'll try to alternate bowls

of
the Original with bowls of the hairball stuff (which I can sometimes find
here in Thailand). Hopefully after a bit of a layoff from the Original,
he'll go back to it.
So this evening, he stalked down a lizard. Dennis kept trying to distract
him, it worked at first but then he caught on to Dennis' trickery and gave
him a dirty look before ignoring him. He ended up precariously balancing

on
the back of a chair and leaping to the top of a shelf, from which he
attacked the lizard and caught it. He jumped down from the shelf and
proceeded to devour the lizard, much to mine and Dennis' dismay. We

cannot
believe that our spoiled rotten cat would prefer lizard over imported
Iams!!!


you need to put up a warning sign by the door for those poor lizards! You
think Iams does lizard flavour?

about the dry food, you suppose it could have gotten dry? well, that sounded
clever ... I mean, even dry food does have some moisture when it's fresh,
but if it's been out in the air for some time it will get really dry and
stop smelling. have you tried to moisten it a bit to bring out the
flavour/smell?


Or gotten too moist from humid air - maybe even rotten.

I learned a long time ago that buying a bag that weighed much more
than the total weight of the cats that were to eat it resulted in
hungry cats and wasted food - no more than two weeks worth seems about
right. Storing it in sealable plastic buckets helps, but with about a
dozen cats, a twenty pound bag lasts only a week or so.


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Old April 30th 04, 09:20 PM
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On Fri, 30 Apr 2004 18:17:46 +0200, "lewe"
wrote:

"badwilson" wrote in message
...
I've been wondering why Vino has been such a food hound lately. Finally
clued in that he wasn't eating his dry food at all. I put him in front of
the bowl and tried to get him to eat, but he stiff-armed the bowl and

backed
away from it. I dumped it and tried another flavour. He devoured it! So
the problem is that he's sick of the Iams Original flavour. That really
sucks because we have one of those big huge gigantic bags of it! And we
bring this food from Canada, aaargh! I guess I'll try to alternate bowls

of
the Original with bowls of the hairball stuff (which I can sometimes find
here in Thailand). Hopefully after a bit of a layoff from the Original,
he'll go back to it.
So this evening, he stalked down a lizard. Dennis kept trying to distract
him, it worked at first but then he caught on to Dennis' trickery and gave
him a dirty look before ignoring him. He ended up precariously balancing

on
the back of a chair and leaping to the top of a shelf, from which he
attacked the lizard and caught it. He jumped down from the shelf and
proceeded to devour the lizard, much to mine and Dennis' dismay. We

cannot
believe that our spoiled rotten cat would prefer lizard over imported
Iams!!!


you need to put up a warning sign by the door for those poor lizards! You
think Iams does lizard flavour?

about the dry food, you suppose it could have gotten dry? well, that sounded
clever ... I mean, even dry food does have some moisture when it's fresh,
but if it's been out in the air for some time it will get really dry and
stop smelling. have you tried to moisten it a bit to bring out the
flavour/smell?


Or gotten too moist from humid air - maybe even rotten.

I learned a long time ago that buying a bag that weighed much more
than the total weight of the cats that were to eat it resulted in
hungry cats and wasted food - no more than two weeks worth seems about
right. Storing it in sealable plastic buckets helps, but with about a
dozen cats, a twenty pound bag lasts only a week or so.


T.E.D. )
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Old May 1st 04, 01:16 AM
m. L. Briggs
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On Fri, 30 Apr 2004 15:20:19 -0500, Ted Davis
wrote:

On Fri, 30 Apr 2004 18:17:46 +0200, "lewe"
wrote:

"badwilson" wrote in message
...
I've been wondering why Vino has been such a food hound lately. Finally
clued in that he wasn't eating his dry food at all. I put him in front of
the bowl and tried to get him to eat, but he stiff-armed the bowl and

backed
away from it. I dumped it and tried another flavour. He devoured it! So
the problem is that he's sick of the Iams Original flavour. That really
sucks because we have one of those big huge gigantic bags of it! And we
bring this food from Canada, aaargh! I guess I'll try to alternate bowls

of
the Original with bowls of the hairball stuff (which I can sometimes find
here in Thailand). Hopefully after a bit of a layoff from the Original,
he'll go back to it.
So this evening, he stalked down a lizard. Dennis kept trying to distract
him, it worked at first but then he caught on to Dennis' trickery and gave
him a dirty look before ignoring him. He ended up precariously balancing

on
the back of a chair and leaping to the top of a shelf, from which he
attacked the lizard and caught it. He jumped down from the shelf and
proceeded to devour the lizard, much to mine and Dennis' dismay. We

cannot
believe that our spoiled rotten cat would prefer lizard over imported
Iams!!!


you need to put up a warning sign by the door for those poor lizards! You
think Iams does lizard flavour?

about the dry food, you suppose it could have gotten dry? well, that sounded
clever ... I mean, even dry food does have some moisture when it's fresh,
but if it's been out in the air for some time it will get really dry and
stop smelling. have you tried to moisten it a bit to bring out the
flavour/smell?


Or gotten too moist from humid air - maybe even rotten.

I learned a long time ago that buying a bag that weighed much more
than the total weight of the cats that were to eat it resulted in
hungry cats and wasted food - no more than two weeks worth seems about
right. Storing it in sealable plastic buckets helps, but with about a
dozen cats, a twenty pound bag lasts only a week or so.


T.E.D. )
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I buy the 4 or 8 pound bags and keep them in the fridge. This may be
impractible for multiple cats.
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Old May 1st 04, 01:16 AM
m. L. Briggs
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On Fri, 30 Apr 2004 15:20:19 -0500, Ted Davis
wrote:

On Fri, 30 Apr 2004 18:17:46 +0200, "lewe"
wrote:

"badwilson" wrote in message
...
I've been wondering why Vino has been such a food hound lately. Finally
clued in that he wasn't eating his dry food at all. I put him in front of
the bowl and tried to get him to eat, but he stiff-armed the bowl and

backed
away from it. I dumped it and tried another flavour. He devoured it! So
the problem is that he's sick of the Iams Original flavour. That really
sucks because we have one of those big huge gigantic bags of it! And we
bring this food from Canada, aaargh! I guess I'll try to alternate bowls

of
the Original with bowls of the hairball stuff (which I can sometimes find
here in Thailand). Hopefully after a bit of a layoff from the Original,
he'll go back to it.
So this evening, he stalked down a lizard. Dennis kept trying to distract
him, it worked at first but then he caught on to Dennis' trickery and gave
him a dirty look before ignoring him. He ended up precariously balancing

on
the back of a chair and leaping to the top of a shelf, from which he
attacked the lizard and caught it. He jumped down from the shelf and
proceeded to devour the lizard, much to mine and Dennis' dismay. We

cannot
believe that our spoiled rotten cat would prefer lizard over imported
Iams!!!


you need to put up a warning sign by the door for those poor lizards! You
think Iams does lizard flavour?

about the dry food, you suppose it could have gotten dry? well, that sounded
clever ... I mean, even dry food does have some moisture when it's fresh,
but if it's been out in the air for some time it will get really dry and
stop smelling. have you tried to moisten it a bit to bring out the
flavour/smell?


Or gotten too moist from humid air - maybe even rotten.

I learned a long time ago that buying a bag that weighed much more
than the total weight of the cats that were to eat it resulted in
hungry cats and wasted food - no more than two weeks worth seems about
right. Storing it in sealable plastic buckets helps, but with about a
dozen cats, a twenty pound bag lasts only a week or so.


T.E.D. )
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I buy the 4 or 8 pound bags and keep them in the fridge. This may be
impractible for multiple cats.
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Old May 1st 04, 02:21 AM
Ted Davis
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On Fri, 30 Apr 2004 18:16:08 -0600, m. L. Briggs
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I buy the 4 or 8 pound bags and keep them in the fridge. This may be
impractible for multiple cats.


When I had four cats, I bought 7-8 pound bags, and sometimes I thought
the cats were getting less willing to eat it, then they caught up when
I opened a new bag. I normally rotate flavors, so I'm not completely
sure whether they got tired of the same old same old or whether the
last of the bag was going bad. I know they never like the dusty stuff
from the bottom of the bag. On the current schedule of a new bag
every ten days or so, the consumption is pretty normal right to the
last, which they generally aren't too keen about, possibly because of
the dust. Right now there is a good bit of self feeding going on -
there are still thousands of frogs around and mice have started moving
back into some of the hunted out areas (based on the leavings found in
the living room).


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Old May 1st 04, 02:21 AM
Ted Davis
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On Fri, 30 Apr 2004 18:16:08 -0600, m. L. Briggs
wrote:

I buy the 4 or 8 pound bags and keep them in the fridge. This may be
impractible for multiple cats.


When I had four cats, I bought 7-8 pound bags, and sometimes I thought
the cats were getting less willing to eat it, then they caught up when
I opened a new bag. I normally rotate flavors, so I'm not completely
sure whether they got tired of the same old same old or whether the
last of the bag was going bad. I know they never like the dusty stuff
from the bottom of the bag. On the current schedule of a new bag
every ten days or so, the consumption is pretty normal right to the
last, which they generally aren't too keen about, possibly because of
the dust. Right now there is a good bit of self feeding going on -
there are still thousands of frogs around and mice have started moving
back into some of the hunted out areas (based on the leavings found in
the living room).


T.E.D. - e-mail must contain "T.E.D." or my .sig in the body)
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Old May 1st 04, 02:26 AM
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"lewe" wrote in message
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"badwilson" wrote in message
...
I've been wondering why Vino has been such a food hound lately. Finally
clued in that he wasn't eating his dry food at all. I put him in front

of
the bowl and tried to get him to eat, but he stiff-armed the bowl and

backed
away from it. I dumped it and tried another flavour. He devoured it!

So
the problem is that he's sick of the Iams Original flavour. That really
sucks because we have one of those big huge gigantic bags of it! And we
bring this food from Canada, aaargh! I guess I'll try to alternate

bowls
of
the Original with bowls of the hairball stuff (which I can sometimes

find
here in Thailand). Hopefully after a bit of a layoff from the Original,
he'll go back to it.
So this evening, he stalked down a lizard. Dennis kept trying to

distract
him, it worked at first but then he caught on to Dennis' trickery and

gave
him a dirty look before ignoring him. He ended up precariously

balancing
on
the back of a chair and leaping to the top of a shelf, from which he
attacked the lizard and caught it. He jumped down from the shelf and
proceeded to devour the lizard, much to mine and Dennis' dismay. We

cannot
believe that our spoiled rotten cat would prefer lizard over imported
Iams!!!


you need to put up a warning sign by the door for those poor lizards! You
think Iams does lizard flavour?

about the dry food, you suppose it could have gotten dry? well, that

sounded
clever ... I mean, even dry food does have some moisture when it's fresh,
but if it's been out in the air for some time it will get really dry and
stop smelling. have you tried to moisten it a bit to bring out the
flavour/smell?

scritches to Vino!


Hmmm, well, I have a big airtight plastic bin that it's in, to keep the ants
out and to keep it fresh. I'll try to add some water next time if he still
won't eat it. I'd hate to waste a big bag of food like that.
It seems that lizard doesn't agree with him too well either though. This
morning I came downstairs and there was a puddle of puke in the hallway :-(
--
Britta
Sandpaper kisses, a cuddle and a purr. I have an alarm clock that's covered
in fur!
Check out pictures of Vino at:
http://photos.yahoo.com/badwilson click on the Vino album





 




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