Sendhelp Posted March 2017
Caregiver's cats behaving badly.
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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?
If I feed it near the good dirt, maybe it will prepare the soil? I could train it?
Anyway, it's name is Nutjob, bringing coffee to caregivers who need it today.
Here, have some!
I know that I will regret not following the rules (No feeding wild animals), but it stopped to talk to me during the eclipse! That is no excuse, I am sure. My bad.
We have a funny game we play now.I have a big bowl of water and I put some plastic boats in it and every now and then,I go stir it with a stick and walk off.Then the kittens will go over and try to stir it with their paws.They're smart and very impressionable and they Love the Beanie Baby Boogie and are learning their names better.They've brought me a lot of joy.
Next week,they will be spayed and they have to keep 'em overnight.Bootsie and I will miss the babies.
Sig other didn't know "Charlie" did this, so one day sig other was sitting on the sofa on the telephone when out of the sky down came "Charlie" landing on the sofa with a thud. Scared the daylights out of sig other. Charlie found this to be a good game.
In the kitchen the kitchen cabinets didn't go all the way up to the ceiling, there was space above them all. So Charlie would go on the kitchen counter, up onto the refrigerator, and then to the top of the kitchen cabinets. I remember we were looking all over for that bad boy not realizing he was doing that :P
On trash day, Charlie took to the roofs of everyone's house on the cul-de-sac to chase off the crows. There he was sitting on the peak of a 2-story roof. He had no fear of heights.
Cats and squirt guns. You need to squirt the cat thinking about doing something you don't want them to do, or just in the process of doing something wrong. It depends if the cat hates to get wet. Charlie loved water. He would want to go out in the rain, come back in and shake like a dog, and be toweled dried... then back out the door for a 2nd and 3rd time :P
Our whole house has turned into a cathouse this past month,now that the kittens have graduated to the den,kitchen,nook,,hallway and bathroom and it's like Heaven for cats here.I was so happy to find a cat tree at a garage sale for $10.00 and it has several perching places on it,but my kittens still have to climb to the highest place in the room instead.Iv'e heard that for bad behaviorryour'e supposed to shoot 'em with a squirt gun.Is this true?
Right now,I'm working on getting weight off my chiweenie ,so she can be spayed.She's lost 9 ounces in 1 month so far.She has to loose 2 pounds total.It's SO hard getting weight off these babies.
But thanks for saying something about it.I still haven't gt this feeding thing figured out with my 5 cats and it's SO expensive!
Well, I am reading labels again, now for the cats. Here I was today in PetSmart reading "crude protein %" trying to find the lowest ones available that I would think the cats would eat. The two cats I have left are starting to develop kidney issues which is common in elderly cats. Vet recommended special diet foods to which one cat tried to cover up.... ok, we have HIS opinion.
Now I am to the point that I had regarding our elders, if they want ice cream for breakfast let them have it. So I decided since the cats are going on 17, let them eat what they enjoy.
Purina makes this new stuff call "Concoctions".... wet can food... weird combinations, like in one can it is salmon & chicken livers, another lamb & clam sauce.... looks like stuff one would dig out of a trash can... THE CATS LOVE IT... forget about Fancy Feast, this new glob looks good :)
The animal cracker Cat looks much like a cat. But you are right, some of those garanimals don't look like a bear, tiger, dog, horse, lion, giraffe, hippopotamus,
and a whole slew of 106 various animals at various times over the years.
Anyway,Thanks Gershun~
I've been feeding my cats veterinarian- prescribed food since they were kittens. My one cat stays fairly slim. My other cat is food-driven, that is veterinarian speak for he is a big pig. He eats his, then stands beside his brother and intimidates him till he walks away from his bowl so fatty can have the rest unless I stand there and watch them eat, which is not always possible. But we give them fancy feast as a treat on the weekends.
Our vet gave us sh*t the last time we went cause she says our one cat is morbidly obese and is guaranteed to have diabetes one day if we can't control his eating. We try but it is hard. :(
There so many brands of cat food, it can send your head whirling. That's why I just stay with Purina which first started in the late 1800's. Because my felines are "seniors", I use the Purina One Maturity. I did order the Purina Pro Plan Focus for elderly cats, so I will see how that works... it is much more expensive.
Two of the cats had stayed at a normal weight for their bone size, and the third one turned into a blimp. So you never know who is going to gain the weight or not... she wouldn't eat wet food, just dry. She was a stray cat so she had to forge for food, thus when there was food here she would over eat. She still lived to be 17 with that weight.
Lot of water bowls around, ok that means more get knocked over during play time :P I use Cornell for their bowls instead of plastic or metal dishes. To me I just feel Cornell is safer to use. I had read decades ago about plastic etching into the food.
I have only bought Purina brand food as rarely does Purina have its pet food recalled. The U.S. government has a website for recalled pet food that they update. I like Purina One. Use to use Purina Cat Chow for many years and the cats did well on that, living into their late teens and early 20's. I know there are special diet cat foods for when the critter needs to change their diet.