Does your Cat (or any pet) misbehave since caregiving your loved one?
Have you been required to take care of your loved one's pet after they have passed? Does your pet have cute antics that entertain your loved one?
And finally, has the cat or dog transferred their loyalty to your Mother?
One's on the mantle and one's running up and down the hall and the other one is in my john trying to get a mouse she thinks is there.
Some mornings when I get up,I find all the cabinet doors open and they've been going through everything in the night.
They have a good time while I'm crashed out every night~
They're the light of my life and my little best friends.
I call them my "Girlsies" or "Darlin's" most the time.
I get the biggest kick watching them with their antics.
They're just SO dear.
Life would be super boring without them FF,you're right~
My cat would curl up in the small of my back in my bed. She was so warm and cozy.
When I married my husband he said that he didn’t want her sleeping with us.
She was the sweetest love bug.
I know that you will be happy when she goes off on her merry way!
Any time I am home during the day, he and I do this little dance where he comes and hangs out by his food bowl and just... waits. Or if I come in from being out, he goes right to the kitchen and his food bowl. I give him wet food at least 2x a day. He licks it dry or eats part of it, then ignores it. I stir the food again several times a day and try to get him to eat what's in the bowl instead of begging for new fresh food... which he would maybe then eat a few bites of and ignore again.
I've thought about getting cat-food gravy, as a topper to get him to eat more of the food. I think he'd just lick the gravy, though, then ignore it until I put more out.
He's keeping me entertained lately. I swear he's more finicky than ever. It's a nice distraction from problems with roommate and some mild-but-annoying vaccine reaction the past few days.
Anyone ever use gravy for every meal with their cat? I see recipes online. Doesn't seem hard to make I just need the time... and who knows if he'll eat it. lol
Pumpkin is more into food than treats. They both eat the dry food I leave out, I use Japanese sweet potato because that is what the store that delivers has, and they like it. If I can't get that I'm not sure what I will use. Carrots might work and they are always available, or other sweet potatoes, or squash.
Thank for the suggestion to add water. I think it was ff who passed that tip on. I believe it is good for them.
Hope the gravy works!
Your black kitty is very cute! I like his golden eyes.
I'm trying the new cat broth out mixed in with his wet food the past few feedings. I'm not sure he's a fan. lol Time will tell.
I'm going to try some plain canned pumpkin, too. That's easy enough.
My kittens are 9 months old now. They are so much fun. Hokus and Pokus love to play with cat springs I get from Amazon. We have a cat tent they love playing as well. The tent was originally to be used as a secure place to put the kittens outside in the shade. They literally shredded one corner of the mesh windows and got out in 45 minutes. So use it only in the house now. We live in an area where birds of prey fly over from spring to fall so we don’t let them outside.
we also have a female mallard duck that decided to make a nest in our front flower bed. She has 11 eggs. The kittens will get in the window and watch the duck. Hopefully the eggs will hatch in another couple weeks. From what I understand, this mama duck or her ducklings will come back year after year to nest. I’m undecided at this time if I want this to be a yearly thing. I may have to rearrange my flower bed. It’s not her nesting that has me undecided, it’s once the ducklings hatch, she will be leading them back and forth all summer from the nest to water daily. It makes it hard to garden with them here. I need to decide what to do.
Have the ducklings hatched yet?
Interested to find out about them.
I still want to come up with a gravy topper that encourages him to eat more of his food. He's a really picky eater more and more. I wondered about using regular gravy mixes from grocery stores and whether that would be ok for his cat systems. I could thin them out. I could try one and see how he reacts. Seems that onion is something you want to avoid feeding cats, so I would check the ingredients first. Is this a crazy idea or a "hm, you could try it and see" idea..? I'm not sure.
He really likes gravy so if I can find some he likes and put it with his wet food, I'm hoping he'll eat more than his usual few bites.
He's getting a bath at home very soon, too. I have a lavender dandruff cat shampoo that I ordered for him and it will take at least two baths to get him cleaned up. I've been planning it out: use a plastic basin that he can stand in and hopefully I can contain him in, too. If all else fails I'll use several towels to wash him with, swaddle style. His fur is just too matted, despite brushing. Baby wipes don't make a dent in the grime.
Poor old man cat. I think mats are uncomfortable for them. I have never bathed a cat. When we got Rocky she was covered in mats. She was essentially a feral cat on the farm. We cut the mats out and she really appreciated it. Both Pumpkin and Rocky got a few mats in the fall and more this spring. Rocky has a very thick undercoat and she gets more mats. She seems to have learned that I need her to be quiet when I am cutting mats out and is very good about it. Pumpkin, on the other hand, I have to "trick" by playing with that part of her coat a few times to get her comfortable and after a few aborted tries I have been successful i snipping the mats out. I use blunt ended scissors.
Had to laugh. The last grocery order brought purple potatoes instead of Japanese sweet potatoes, I boiled some and mixed some mashed in their food as usual. Pumpkin ate the lot. Rocky managed to eat the cat food and leave the mashed purple potato behind. She is particular!!!
Good luck with the bath!
I have a very compassionate vet who has always given me the best advice about when to treat, when to watch and when an animal's quality of life is no longer sustainable. I am always grateful for his guidance.
I am so sorry for the loss of your kitty. They become a part of our family and are missed when they die.
I love my vet too. He handed me the entire box of tissue when I started to cry. My cat was 16. I loved her so much.
I told my vet, “She’s such a wonderful cat and loved us as much as we loved her. I will miss her curling up next to me.”
My vet replied, “She has been a great cat. I know how much you love her and how she loved you. You are showing her your love now by not allowing her to suffer.”
A long long time ago our vet suggested the same for our German Shepherd. It was so hard! She was my best friend... But vet said trying to cure her at that stage was just make her agony longer. Our pets absolutely become members of our family.
Old man cat seems fine most days but he struggles with his footing sometimes. I just try to care for him best I know how. Sometimes I feel under-informed of how to take of such an elderly cat but he seems happy enough from day to day.
Golden, I am concerned about weight loss, especially since I've added laxatives to his daily meals. It's a very small amount and vet recommended it and I can see it makes him more comfortable. He will always lick up any gravy even if he doesn't each much food, so finding a way to get more food into him seems important. He likes the different wet food; he just doesn't eat more than a couple bites at a time. I bought the cat broth because it was inexpensive to try, but I'll get him some cat gravy and see how that goes.
Old man cat has always been very skinny and his previous mom said he's always been like this, not to worry. But... I still do. lol He looks skinnier past few months to me. I may have to get a digital scale so I can see what's happening.
So very sorry for the loss of your precious Merlin, Barb.
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