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On Wed, 18 Jan 2017 19:07:20 -0500, jmcquown wrote:
LOL It's as good an explanation as any. BTW, I don't know about Buffy but Persia absolutely despised tuna. Early on I had to give Persia a pill. The vet suggested hiding it in some water-packed human tuna: she'll love it! Persia looked at me like "You expect me to EAT this?!" She never cared for fishy cat food, either. Chicken, turkey, beef, yep. In subsequent years I discovered Greenies Pill Pockets (chicken), which usually worked. Minnie seems to change her menu preferences from time to time. I just offer to share whatever I'm eating with her (as long as it's not anything harmful to cats, like chocolate). She used to get half a slice of balogna every afternoon when I made my lunch. Then she got tired of it and wouldn't eat it any more, and her current favorite is that prepackaged Oscar Meyer ham that has little bits of cheese in it. She loved the ham I made for New Year's too. She also currently loves cherry fruit pies. Won't eat the crust, but considers it a personal insult if she doesn't get to have her share of the filling. Tuna...if I give it to her and I'm not having any, it will sit in her bowl and rot. But let her see me making macaroni salad or my quick-and-dirty tuna casserole, she wants her cut of the tuna before I mix it in. She knows when I'm making either of those because she sees me boil the pasta first while I collect the other ingredients on the kitchen counter. It's one of the rare times she'll actually meow at me rather than use one of her more usual vocalizations. Her favorite kitty treat right now - the only ones she's ever had, in fact - are the chicken-flavored Pounce ones. I chose them to be her first kitty treats because they're soft and moist and apparently cats think they're tasty because I've yet to see a cat that didn't come running from anywhere within earshot upon hearing me get out the Pounce and shake it No matter what she's doing, she stops and gives me her undivided attention the instant she sees me open the door to the cupboard she knows they're stored in...and when I haven't seen her for a while and don't know where she's hiding, I can just go get out the jar of Pounce and give it a few shakes and in a few seconds she'll be standing at my feet rubbing up on my legs with her tail straight up and twitching and "Happy Kitty" just written all over her - a scene you can witness at least once a day here, since I didn't get them to put them in the cupboard and look at them!. LOL...we've now gone from golf balls to eating habits - WHAT topic drift? Pill Pockets are a gift from heaven! In my experience, trying to pill a cat without them has generally been a disaster for all parties concerned. John D. Kasupski Niagara Falls, NY |
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Pill Pockets are a gift from heaven! In my experience, trying
to pill a cat without them has generally been a disaster for all parties concerned. I roll Chloe's anti-thyroid pills in a marble-sized blob of pate from Lidl. She forms an orderly queue for one twice a day (only occasionally "forgetting" that she's already had it). ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- e m a i l : j a c k @ c a m p i n . m e . u k Jack Campin, 11 Third Street, Newtongrange, Midlothian EH22 4PU, Scotland mobile 07800 739 557 http://www.campin.me.uk Twitter: JackCampin |
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On 1/18/2017 8:24 PM, John Kasupski wrote:
On Wed, 18 Jan 2017 19:07:20 -0500, jmcquown wrote: LOL It's as good an explanation as any. BTW, I don't know about Buffy but Persia absolutely despised tuna. Early on I had to give Persia a pill. The vet suggested hiding it in some water-packed human tuna: she'll love it! Persia looked at me like "You expect me to EAT this?!" She never cared for fishy cat food, either. Chicken, turkey, beef, yep. In subsequent years I discovered Greenies Pill Pockets (chicken), which usually worked. Minnie seems to change her menu preferences from time to time. I just offer to share whatever I'm eating with her (as long as it's not anything harmful to cats, like chocolate). She used to get half a slice of balogna every afternoon when I made my lunch. Then she got tired of it and wouldn't eat it any more, and her current favorite is that prepackaged Oscar Meyer ham that has little bits of cheese in it. She loved the ham I made for New Year's too. She also currently loves cherry fruit pies. Won't eat the crust, but considers it a personal insult if she doesn't get to have her share of the filling. Tuna...if I give it to her and I'm not having any, it will sit in her bowl and rot. But let her see me making macaroni salad or my quick-and-dirty tuna casserole, she wants her cut of the tuna before I mix it in. She knows when I'm making either of those because she sees me boil the pasta first while I collect the other ingredients on the kitchen counter. It's one of the rare times she'll actually meow at me rather than use one of her more usual vocalizations. Her favorite kitty treat right now - the only ones she's ever had, in fact - are the chicken-flavored Pounce ones. I chose them to be her first kitty treats because they're soft and moist and apparently cats think they're tasty because I've yet to see a cat that didn't come running from anywhere within earshot upon hearing me get out the Pounce and shake it No matter what she's doing, she stops and gives me her undivided attention the instant she sees me open the door to the cupboard she knows they're stored in...and when I haven't seen her for a while and don't know where she's hiding, I can just go get out the jar of Pounce and give it a few shakes and in a few seconds she'll be standing at my feet rubbing up on my legs with her tail straight up and twitching and "Happy Kitty" just written all over her - a scene you can witness at least once a day here, since I didn't get them to put them in the cupboard and look at them!. LOL...we've now gone from golf balls to eating habits - WHAT topic drift? Pill Pockets are a gift from heaven! In my experience, trying to pill a cat without them has generally been a disaster for all parties concerned. John D. Kasupski Niagara Falls, NY Lots of thread drift here. But it's good, cat related thread drift! Feel free to start new threads. I have to say, I love your kitten Minnie already. Do you have any pics of her? Jill Jill |
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On Wed, 18 Jan 2017 20:50:31 -0500, jmcquown wrote:
Lots of thread drift here. But it's good, cat related thread drift! Feel free to start new threads. I have to say, I love your kitten Minnie already. Do you have any pics of her? Not yet, but it's funny you should mention it, because just this morning while sitting at the kitchen table sipping a cup of coffee and watching Minnie prowl around near the baking table in the corner to make sure a family of mice hadn't set up shop under there overnight while we were sleeping, I thought about digging out my old digital camera and putting some batteries on it so I could take a few pics and put them online using a free image hosting site such as ImageBam. I just wasn't sure anyone else would be interested in them. Now that I know someone is, I guess I better...well, just start hunting for batteries, actually, because I just spotted the camera itself hiding in plain sight about five feet away from me! John D. Kasupski Niagara Falls, NY |
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John Kasupski wrote:
She also currently loves cherry fruit pies. Won't eat the crust, but considers it a personal insult if she doesn't get to have her share of the filling. I had a cat (Smudge, who I talked about in my posts yesterday) who would probably eat *only* the crust. She was a carbohydrate fiend! Soon after I adopted her, I came home one evening to find bags of pasta and rice torn open and the contents spilled all over the floor. So those items had to be moved to somewhere less accessible. When I had some friends over for dinner one evening, I was out on the front porch grilling the fish, when suddenly one of then yelled, "Joyce! Come quick! Smudge is attacking the bread!" They had brought one of those artisanal breads from a bakery, and Smudge wasn't about to let the humans have all of it. And then there was the time I came home from grocery shopping, and (foolishly) put the bag on the floor while unpacking a different bag. Next thing I knew, Smudge had gotten into the bag. She ignored the raw chicken and the cheese that were in there, and had torn open a bag of English muffins. Pill Pockets are a gift from heaven! In my experience, trying to pill a cat without them has generally been a disaster for all parties concerned. Yeah, whenever a dog owner claims that "cats are much easier pets than dogs," I know that they have never tried to pill a cat. The last time I took care of someone's dog, I had to give him medication every night. All I had to do was stick the pill inside one of those bacon-cheese treats and toss it in the air. He'd catch it and swallow it whole. Joyce -- "Sentimentality" -- that's what we call the sentiment we don't share. -- Graham Greene |
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John Kasupski wrote:
On Wed, 18 Jan 2017 20:50:31 -0500, jmcquown wrote: Lots of thread drift here. But it's good, cat related thread drift! Feel free to start new threads. I have to say, I love your kitten Minnie already. Do you have any pics of her? Not yet, but it's funny you should mention it, because just this morning while sitting at the kitchen table sipping a cup of coffee and watching Minnie prowl around near the baking table in the corner to make sure a family of mice hadn't set up shop under there overnight while we were sleeping, I thought about digging out my old digital camera and putting some batteries on it so I could take a few pics and put them online using a free image hosting site such as ImageBam. I just wasn't sure anyone else would be interested in them. You don't know us very well, yet. Pictures of Minnie will be very well received here, I guarantee it. Joyce -- "Sentimentality" -- that's what we call the sentiment we don't share. -- Graham Greene |
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On 1/18/2017 8:27 PM, Bastette wrote:
John Kasupski wrote: On Wed, 18 Jan 2017 20:50:31 -0500, jmcquown wrote: Lots of thread drift here. But it's good, cat related thread drift! Feel free to start new threads. I have to say, I love your kitten Minnie already. Do you have any pics of her? Not yet, but it's funny you should mention it, because just this morning while sitting at the kitchen table sipping a cup of coffee and watching Minnie prowl around near the baking table in the corner to make sure a family of mice hadn't set up shop under there overnight while we were sleeping, I thought about digging out my old digital camera and putting some batteries on it so I could take a few pics and put them online using a free image hosting site such as ImageBam. I just wasn't sure anyone else would be interested in them. You don't know us very well, yet. Pictures of Minnie will be very well received here, I guarantee it. Joyce She's right. Joy |
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On Thu, 19 Jan 2017 04:24:06 -0000 (UTC), Bastette
wrote: And then there was the time I came home from grocery shopping, and (foolishly) put the bag on the floor while unpacking a different bag. Next thing I knew, Smudge had gotten into the bag. She ignored the raw chicken and the cheese that were in there, and had torn open a bag of English muffins. I've been fortunate. I love to eat, but I hate grocery shopping...so when I go, often I bring home a month or more worth of stuff. I end up with it everywhere, waiting for me to put it all away. It's on the table, on the chairs, both countertops, on top of the stove, and - of course - on the floor. Minnie will sniff things that are on the floor - by which I mean to say, she'll sniff EVERYTHING that's on the floor. But she has yet to rip anything open, even when I leave bags of rice and pasta in cardboard boxes on the floor because all of my cupboards are already stuffed and there's no more room. That is Minnie's part of our unspoken agreement about food storage around here. My part of the deal is that she gets first crack at claiming any cardboard boxes she decides she wants as they gradually become empty. She's actually got two of them in the kitchen now and there's a third one she's decided she wants but we haven't agreed on a place for her to put it yet. Yeah, whenever a dog owner claims that "cats are much easier pets than dogs," I know that they have never tried to pill a cat. The last time I took care of someone's dog, I had to give him medication every night. All I had to do was stick the pill inside one of those bacon-cheese treats and toss it in the air. He'd catch it and swallow it whole. LOL...Joyce, don't even get me started on dog owners. This is another topic I'm sure I could write a book on. I reached the conclusion long ago that the average dog owner is 99% clueless about cats. The 1% that they usually do know is that it's better to keep their dogs away from our cats unless they were already planning a trip to the vet's anyway, although not all of them even know that. Often the dogs are smarter about that than their owners. Your neighbor might bring a dog along into your yard to chat with you even though your cat is standing there hissing with back raised and fur standing up, but the dog's body language usually says, "No, please...this is bound to end horribly...can't we just go back home now?" Yet the neighbor will let the dog approach a cat who appears ready in all respects to be photographed for the next issue of Halloween Cat Quarterly - even ignoring a warning from you to keep the dog away - and then as soon as the cat quite predictably accepts this thoughtful invitation to use the poor dog's face for a scratching post, the outraged dog owner will invariably cry, "That cat's crazy!" John D. Kasupski Niagara Falls, NY |
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