Kitty Farmcat has lost her appetite

Christina Websell wrote:

And don't hold out on the pheasant! If you think she'll eat it, give
her some!

Of course I gave her some! How could I not? Little torn up pieces of
still warm roasted pheasant breast which she ate.

Oh, sorry - I misunderstood you when you said you were "holding out" on
the pheasant. In the US, that would mean that you were waiting to see if
she'd eat something else before giving her your good stuff. Sounds like
you meant to say something else entirely. And I'm glad she ate it!

Continuing the purrs,
Joyce

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I must admit, kind as the intention is, the thought of having to gut and
pluck two pheasants in a short time does not fill me with joy after work..
So I skinned the one we had today. I had not skinned one before, but as I
began to pluck this dead-for-a-week fowl the skin began to tear so I thought
what the h*ll, I'll have a go at skinning it. Very successful. I had to
cook it in foil and rub it with olive oil. It was delicious.
Shooting pheasants is not something I would want to do myself - but given
that it has already been done it is the least I can do to eat them so they
are not wasted. Another three to go, then ;-)

I asked my colleagues what they would do if they were presented with a brace
of pheasants "still in the feather" as we call it. It varied from "scream
loudly" through "faint" to "throw them away." Not one even considered
preparing them for the table. They said it was *gross*
I suppose it seems like that if everything meat-wise they buy comes in neat
pieces from the supermarket or oven-ready chickens.

Tweed






"Stormmee" wrote in message
...
my sister raises chickens and after the first kill, she dispensed with
plucking in the traditional sense and skinned them, says she won't ever go
back, Lee, drooling in bird envy of KFC
Christina Websell wrote in message
...
Thank Bast, my neighbours brought me 2 pheasants last Saturday and today
"voila!" the terrier men came again for a rat hunt and brought me another
2
with a Christmas card as an appreciation for letting them bring their
terriers here to rat.
We will be eating pheasant for the foreseeable future ;-) I just wish
they
came already plucked and gutted though..

Tweed


"Stormmee" wrote in message
...
buy a pheasant if need be, Lee, praying for both of you,
Christina Websell wrote in message
...
Since yesterday. This panics me because of her CRF and her great age.
I have been down this road before with my old dogs, of offering
tempting
little morsels of various wonderful foods, only to have them rejected
and
for me to get more and more despairing as they reach end-stage CRF.

Kitty cannot afford not to eat. She is getting frailer and frailer,
as
all
CRF patients do as their damaged kidneys excrete more protein than
they
can
take in. I know she did this once before a few months ago but with
purrs
she came back so I am asking for a few more, please.

Yesterday, because she didn't want to eat by evening, I bought her
some
lactose-free milk which she drank. I could only get semi-skimmed, I
wanted
to get full-fat to get some calories into her. but apparently full fat
lactose free milk is not made. Dammit.
She only licked at her breakfast of fish pate this morning which she
normally loves. She spent the day mostly asleep in front of the fire
and
at
one time my heart nearly stopped when I checked on her, I thought she
was
dead - by her position and expression.
She ate maybe a tablespoon of chicken this evening, but hey I have a
pheasant cooking in the oven that my neighbour gave me and she has
always
loved pheasant.

Yeah, I know :-(((((

Tweed

Christina Websell wrote:

Shooting pheasants is not something I would want to do myself - but given
that it has already been done it is the least I can do to eat them so they
are not wasted. Another three to go, then ;-)

Can you freeze the other 3 until you're ready to cook them? I guess
you would have to skin them first.

I asked my colleagues what they would do if they were presented with a brace
of pheasants "still in the feather" as we call it. It varied from "scream
loudly" through "faint" to "throw them away." Not one even considered
preparing them for the table. They said it was *gross*
I suppose it seems like that if everything meat-wise they buy comes in neat
pieces from the supermarket or oven-ready chickens.

Yep, we city folk are pretty spoiled in that way. But it's a weird
contradiction, isn't it? On one hand, we're grossed out by a dead
animal that is very clearly an *animal* - still having its head, skin,
feathers, or whatever else it had in life. On the other, we're all too
happy to eat the dead animal when it's been cleaned and cooked.

I'm not going to pretend I don't have that contradiction myself. I'm
also not so sure I'll resolve it any time soon, since I have little desire
to learn how to prepare a kill for a meal, nor am I about to become a
vegetarian. I guess if at some point I am ever forced into that choice,
I'll deal with it then. Most likely, I would find a way to get used to
dealing with dead animals. I'd have to be in a close-to-starvation state
to be forced into that choice to begin with - in which case I would not
turn down *any* source of food.

Joyce

it is my heartfelt belief that there are NO coincidences only circumstances,
Lee
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She is ill, really ill. She fell off her footstool today, a low
upholstered
thingie that she likes to sit on in front of the fire if her bed next
to
it
does not please her.
I am holding out on the pheasant just yet as she just ate another two
tsps
of chicken.

Purrs for KFC to get past her sick feelings and start eating again.
Or to pass peacefully, if this is her time.

I forget, are you giving her subq fluids? If not, that might help right
now.

No, we have not reached that yet, although it might be the next step.

And don't hold out on the pheasant! If you think she'll eat it, give
her some! Even if she ate a bit of chicken. Right now is the time to
give
her *whatever* you think she'll want to eat.

Of course I gave her some! How could I not? Little torn up pieces of
still warm roasted pheasant breast which she ate. I didn't give her very
much as it is easy to sicken a CRF patient if you do, from my experience.
The leg portions went into the slow-cooker, I guess she will be having
that
tomorrow. Good job I've got three more pheasants to go at, eh?
It's months since I was gifted with a brace of pheasants and now I get two
inside a week just when I need them. Amazing.

Tweed

so glad it worked for you, I am like that about Bambi, won't shoot one but
if its dead give me a knife and lets not waste shall we, Lee
Christina Websell wrote in message
...
I must admit, kind as the intention is, the thought of having to gut and
pluck two pheasants in a short time does not fill me with joy after work..
So I skinned the one we had today. I had not skinned one before, but as I
began to pluck this dead-for-a-week fowl the skin began to tear so I
thought
what the h*ll, I'll have a go at skinning it. Very successful. I had to
cook it in foil and rub it with olive oil. It was delicious.
Shooting pheasants is not something I would want to do myself - but given
that it has already been done it is the least I can do to eat them so they
are not wasted. Another three to go, then ;-)

I asked my colleagues what they would do if they were presented with a
brace
of pheasants "still in the feather" as we call it. It varied from "scream
loudly" through "faint" to "throw them away." Not one even considered
preparing them for the table. They said it was *gross*
I suppose it seems like that if everything meat-wise they buy comes in
neat
pieces from the supermarket or oven-ready chickens.

Tweed






"Stormmee" wrote in message
...
my sister raises chickens and after the first kill, she dispensed with
plucking in the traditional sense and skinned them, says she won't ever
go
back, Lee, drooling in bird envy of KFC
Christina Websell wrote in message
...
Thank Bast, my neighbours brought me 2 pheasants last Saturday and
today
"voila!" the terrier men came again for a rat hunt and brought me
another
2
with a Christmas card as an appreciation for letting them bring their
terriers here to rat.
We will be eating pheasant for the foreseeable future ;-) I just wish
they
came already plucked and gutted though..

Tweed


"Stormmee" wrote in message
...
buy a pheasant if need be, Lee, praying for both of you,
Christina Websell wrote in
message
...
Since yesterday. This panics me because of her CRF and her great
age.
I have been down this road before with my old dogs, of offering
tempting
little morsels of various wonderful foods, only to have them
rejected
and
for me to get more and more despairing as they reach end-stage CRF.

Kitty cannot afford not to eat. She is getting frailer and frailer,
as
all
CRF patients do as their damaged kidneys excrete more protein than
they
can
take in. I know she did this once before a few months ago but with
purrs
she came back so I am asking for a few more, please.

Yesterday, because she didn't want to eat by evening, I bought her
some
lactose-free milk which she drank. I could only get semi-skimmed, I
wanted
to get full-fat to get some calories into her. but apparently full
fat
lactose free milk is not made. Dammit.
She only licked at her breakfast of fish pate this morning which she
normally loves. She spent the day mostly asleep in front of the
fire
and
at
one time my heart nearly stopped when I checked on her, I thought
she
was
dead - by her position and expression.
She ate maybe a tablespoon of chicken this evening, but hey I have a
pheasant cooking in the oven that my neighbour gave me and she has
always
loved pheasant.

Yeah, I know :-(((((

Tweed

wrote in message
...
Christina Websell wrote:

And don't hold out on the pheasant! If you think she'll eat it, give
her some!

Of course I gave her some! How could I not? Little torn up pieces of
still warm roasted pheasant breast which she ate.

Oh, sorry - I misunderstood you when you said you were "holding out" on
the pheasant. In the US, that would mean that you were waiting to see if
she'd eat something else before giving her your good stuff. Sounds like
you meant to say something else entirely. And I'm glad she ate it!

Continuing the purrs,

You didn't misunderstand, Joyce, I was holding out on the pheasant to tempt
her with if she got worse, but when she looked up when I was eating it I
gave her some. It's difficult to know when to give the "ultimate food"

Tweed

Christina Websell wrote:
Since yesterday. This panics me because of her CRF and her great age.
I have been down this road before with my old dogs, of offering tempting
little morsels of various wonderful foods, only to have them rejected and
for me to get more and more despairing as they reach end-stage CRF.

Kitty cannot afford not to eat. She is getting frailer and frailer, as all
CRF patients do as their damaged kidneys excrete more protein than they can
take in. I know she did this once before a few months ago but with purrs
she came back so I am asking for a few more, please.

Yesterday, because she didn't want to eat by evening, I bought her some
lactose-free milk which she drank. I could only get semi-skimmed, I wanted
to get full-fat to get some calories into her. but apparently full fat
lactose free milk is not made. Dammit.
She only licked at her breakfast of fish pate this morning which she
normally loves. She spent the day mostly asleep in front of the fire and at
one time my heart nearly stopped when I checked on her, I thought she was
dead - by her position and expression.
She ate maybe a tablespoon of chicken this evening, but hey I have a
pheasant cooking in the oven that my neighbour gave me and she has always
loved pheasant.

Yeah, I know :-(((((

Tweed

Purrs that KFC will pull through at least once more.

Sam

Christina Websell wrote:

You didn't misunderstand, Joyce, I was holding out on the pheasant to tempt
her with if she got worse, but when she looked up when I was eating it I
gave her some. It's difficult to know when to give the "ultimate food"

Is pheasant KFC's ultimate food? I guess it's tied with collared doves,
isn't it? But you don't have much control over when those come into your
house... *Boyfriend*, yes, I'm talking to you.

Joyce

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Christina Websell wrote:

Shooting pheasants is not something I would want to do myself - but
given
that it has already been done it is the least I can do to eat them so
they
are not wasted. Another three to go, then ;-)

Can you freeze the other 3 until you're ready to cook them? I guess
you would have to skin them first.

I am in the fortunate position that my freezer is full. So it's pheasant,
pheasant, pheasant for a while

I asked my colleagues what they would do if they were presented with a
brace
of pheasants "still in the feather" as we call it. It varied from
"scream
loudly" through "faint" to "throw them away." Not one even considered
preparing them for the table. They said it was *gross*
I suppose it seems like that if everything meat-wise they buy comes in
neat
pieces from the supermarket or oven-ready chickens.

Yep, we city folk are pretty spoiled in that way. But it's a weird
contradiction, isn't it? On one hand, we're grossed out by a dead
animal that is very clearly an *animal* - still having its head, skin,
feathers, or whatever else it had in life. On the other, we're all too
happy to eat the dead animal when it's been cleaned and cooked.

Yes.

I'm not going to pretend I don't have that contradiction myself.

Oh, I have half that contradiction too. I like to eat meat but I cannot
kill an animal or bird. Present me with one already dead and I can cut it
up, skin it etc.
We (myself & KFC) will eat all of these pheasants. They are very yummy.
Then I will make soup from the remains which will give me a few lunches for
work with some crunchy bread

Tweed

On 2007-12-16 12:35:40 -0600, "Christina Websell"
said:

Thank Bast, my neighbours brought me 2 pheasants last Saturday and
today "voila!" the terrier men came again for a rat hunt and brought me
another 2 with a Christmas card as an appreciation for letting them
bring their terriers here to rat.
We will be eating pheasant for the foreseeable future ;-) I just wish
they came already plucked and gutted though..

Tweed


Did she eat any? I completely understand where you are at, but she has
surprised us all before. I will send many purrs.