Breaking Cat News by Georgia Dunn for January 15, 2024

My Vet always says, it ain’t healthy if they wont eat it! Not only do they refuse to eat it, Goldie is about to start a prison riot over it! CATTICA! CATTICA! CATTICA!

Not injustice!!!! Time for that famous cat speech, “I Have a SCREAM”.

(And may all of us honor the ideals of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and many other peaceful warriors for kindness and justice, today and every other day.)

I once wanted to run away and get married, but I cantaloupe.

Cats are obligate carnivores. Even dog food isn’t meat-proteiny enough for cats’ good health.

I wonder if Georgia chose this arc to rebroadcast since Elvis’s tummy troubles have meant adding pumpkin to his diet. Annabelle, my dearly departed Siamese kitty girl, loved cantaloupe.

Freya loved her prescription diet, as did all the other cats who had to have it. They liked their healthy food. Admittedly, she loved her special chicken gravy, aka flavored antacid to bind some phosphorus and soothe her stomach.

Vive La Revolution!

Gag. Health food. I’m with you, Goldie! Someone order a pizza.

Poor Puck. He’s trying to be positive, but just can’t show it on his face.

Puck, a cantaloupe is an animal that plays on the range, usually with deer.

And yes this happened. Toshie looked at me like I served her rat poison. She actually gagged.

Go live outside eh. Ya means ya goes and living outside like living life outside or you is going outside and going LIVE on yer mews broadcats? Dangnabbits me is never gets Englees.

Foxy has taken to Tiki Cat mousse. So far she’s licked up every flavor. Most of them have pumpkin for stomachs, especially the Senior and Functional (Sean Bell’s favorite word) varieties. Most of the time you give her anything with pumpkin she scrapes around and “Look at how I have to eat bits of leftover treats off the floor because you won’t feed me. I’m so pathetic.”

Flavors that cats love … like … pumpkin … or tuna? Yeah, I can’t picture a cat stalking and taking down a pumpkin, let alone a bluefin tuna the size of a bear, but apparently there’s a reason for this. Cats like “umami” flavors, which makes sense given their meat-rich diet. Good luck trying to make cantaloupe taste like tuna …

SciShow: Cats Shouldn’t Love Tuna (But They Do)

https://www.youtubeCom/watch?v=w7pdvGs6QII

Those are my cats speaking.

I always like it when Lupin and Goldie agree on something, despite normally being frenemies (or at least, competitive news reporters). I also love her threatening to break a window and go live outside again!

Oh, Goldie! You wouldn’t want to live outside here. It’s -1 out this morning. When I let Beau out to do his business at 5:45, I heard other dogs barking. It breaks my heart. People should be forced to sit outside, naked, with their animals on nights like this.

I have Loaner Cat on Iams Urinary Tract Wet Food. For awhile, her urine got really dark and at 18, I thought she was probably developing stones so switched her over to that. Much, much better now and she gobbles it up, so the taste must suit her. She also gets an open bowl of dry food to crunch during the day. Also urinary tract food. She’s gotten a little thinner than she used to be, but that’s because of her age.

I had 2 outside cats and decided to get them some healthy food for a change. They wouldn’t eat it, nothing would eat it! I mean, I’m by a woods with raccoons and other animals and none had any interest in that bowl of food. I went back to the original stuff and cats were happy.

Healthy food? Do you really want us to leave a calling card in your shoes?

https://www.youtube.Com/watch?v=waZ4Pt3kgz8&list=RDY1xfcMG_lbw&index=5

“What is this in my bowl I’ve been given?

I will turn up my nose,

Have you smelled it? It’s gross.

Hurry up give me food that I care for."

( Stairway To Heaven Parody Song – What A CAT Would Sing Instead, written by Shirley Serban)

NO REGULAR FOOD, NO PEACE!! H0RKAGE! HORKAGE! HOARKAGE!

Goldie has been quite a rebel lately. I thought she liked living in the Big Pink House.

Meanwhile, Back on the Nile

At the Happy Healthy Hospital Pyramid

Dr. Salubria: Thank you for the pizza party, Thomios. The kittens all had a great time.

Thomios: Glad to do my part. Especially when it comes to caring for kittens, Dr. Sally.

Dr. Sally: We definitely need to encourage the kittens to eat healthy food, but as soon as you mention something is good for them they won’t eat it.

Thomios: I may have just the thing. Now that pizza season is upon us, let’s have a Make Your Own Pizza Party. We can give them pizza crusts and dishes of healthy toppings to put on their pizza.

Dr. Sally: Great idea! But do you really think it will work?

Thomios: I think so. It’s how I got Elvis-Anum and Lupinium to eat healthier. Puckmosis is always interested in trying new things.

Dr. Sally: And we could have Ora Zed show the kittens how to shred vegetables.

Thomios: Sounds like a plan.

Cats need a meaty diet. Some greens are good but mostly meat for the cats. I swear my dog can eat anything happily.

Unfortunately, healthy often means doesn’t taste good

One of my cats loves cantelope and watermelon.

Our cats like the pumpkin

Healthy cat diet means a powerful litter box

At least it’s not orange quinoa with strange creatures in it.

I love Lupin’s Skeptical Outraged Ears.

My cats won’t eat anything except kibble, their cat treats (which I have cut back on), and the occasional lickable tube.

For those of you feeding your cats pumpkin, are you using what is referred to as pumpkin for the purpose of pie making? Have you tried baby food pumpkin? I had to feed the late, great Rascal squash, and our vet suggested baby food. It’s been so long I honestly don’t know whether he ate it, but he was very food-oriented, so maybe? Just a thought.

I remember being told to give the cats sweet potatoes and pumpkin. When I told the cats they had to have food with those two ingredients, they laughed and rebelled. Guess who lost that trial. And it was back to the Friskies and Blue Buffalo. They will eat ‘green’ catnip. That’s it for the green stuff. To say that Katie and Yogi rule around here is a safe statement to make.

I said it when this one originally ran and I feel compelled to say it again: Sanibel does love pumpkin and cantaloupe. In fact, I’m pretty sure cantaloupe is her favorite food; she is certainly more persistent in begging for tastes of it than of anything else. I never give her much because I know she’s an obligate carnivore, but it’s hard to ignore her enthusiasm for fruit . . . especially since she knows the efficacy of grabbing my rear end with her claws. . .

If it tastes like chicken or turkey, then Starlord will eat it. He detests fish and beef flavors

I guess it’s cold outside when the backyard is filled with black birds eating the feral cats’ food. Normally on a day this cold I would put some seed out for the songbirds but they have been driven off by this mess of grackles and starlings. The volume of noise they are making is amazing. The cats sure aren’t getting fed either.

Despite Ora Zella’s acts of random wildness, cats generally prefer order and predictability and cherish their daily rituals. Introducing a new food or kitty litter works best if you mix in a little at a time. Hmmm…that’s also true for meeting new friends.

Though we try not to feed our cats while we eat, there’s often curiosity— or maybe jealousy. While typing this, having coffee in bed, I was visited by all four of our indoor cats, who had to sniff my drink. (Big shout-out to my husband, Bob, a.k.a. “Chef Robert le Chat,” who brings me that daily “wake-up” coffee. Besides loving to cook, he buys and mixes up five different kinds of cat food, with different combinations for different kitties, including warm dinner for ferals, who reciprocate by bringing him snake and mouse “presents,” which he dutifully pretends to eat.

Our cats have probably named him, “Bringer of Food,” whereas I am “The Other One.” Yesterday, our “little” Inky (about four times our Balinese Kiki’s size) started meowing at full Siamese volume, instead of his usual little meek “meep.” He had found a cobweb wafting back and forth on the ceiling, but couldn’t reach it. He continued to yell till Bob finally used a broom to remove it. Inky immediately pounced on the cobweb “prey” and gobbled it up. Cleaning the sticky residue from his whiskers kept him busy for quite a while.

Oh come now, cantaloupe. Not hardly. We don’t have cantaloupe in the North Americas. What they sell as cantaloupe isn’t cantaloupe, it’s just various forms of melons commonly known as muskmelons. Real cantaloupes only come from Europe. A true cantaloupe is lightly ribbed with a sweet and flavorful flesh and a gray-green skin that looks quite different from that of the North American muskmelon. The flavor of a cantaloupe is far sweeter and tastier than the muskmelon found in North America.

My girl Jez would typically eat a brick if I put it in a bowl for her. The one time she’s refused to eat the wet food I give her, I gave it a sniff and it smelled “off”. In the trash it went, and she happily scarfed down a different can.

My cat BladeRunner was supposed to be on pumpkin once because he had … difficult poops. There’s nothing convenient about a can of pumpkin when you just need a teaspoon every day. Eventually we figured out that psyllium worked fine, mixed in his morning canned food treat. He was on that for One Hundred Years, but eventually came off because his poops started … going the other extreme.

Also, I tried that churru that people here were raving about and all three of my indoor cats had loose stools from it. The only one who has no trouble with it is the dawg. But maybe the churru would be fine for cats who needed pumpkin, and a lot more convenient.

Speaking of food, treats etc…. I just got an email from the Temptations people. They are coming out with a new “lickable spoons” treat. It looks like a cup, with a bit of a handle, that has 2 different flavors of lickable treats in each “spoon”. Seems like a nice size for one kitty to devour. Forgive the advertisement aspect, but it looks interesting. I’ll be looking for this one. Sara, in particular, loves these sorts of treats. She’s hard to please, so i’d walk through a wall to get her something she really loves.

I can’t wait to here Elvis’s comments on this turn of events!

OT

Goldie is forgetting that she has a secret route to get outside! Methinks she has NO intention of going to live outside. She just like to react with some dramatic flair when something is aggravating her.

Anarchy in the News Crew … but I can’t blame them; I’ve never noticed pumpkin lurking in the butcher case.

Ahhh… lady, cats are carnivores not herbivores.

OT: Eyes. I just got back from the Eye Doctor. My vision is pretty much back to where it was in April. Although my distance issues have increased enough to need a slight correction. So I opted for progressive lenses this time. I had to pay a little more to get a better tier for them, my insurance only covers the very basic ones, and I also paid a few dollars for the blue light protection. All in all it only cost me about 80 dollars more than I had budgeted. Eyes are too important to go cheap on.On the down side, the rodent deterrent box in my car stopped working, meaning it needed new batteries. Well, my car hood was frozen shut. So much so that the cable detached from the lever inside the car. I was able to pull the cable with a pair of pliers though and change the batteries. I topped off all my fluids while I had the hood open, just in case it refreezes shut. Not to mention my battery gave me that, “unh uh” noise this morning before starting. mind you, it was 4 degrees F. So the money sucking pit of misery that is this January continues for me. LOL New battery is probably 300? I knew that the battery could go at any time, but it hasn’t kicked the bucket yet. And my mechanic can probably reattach the spring that opens the hood when he does the oil change etc in April.So, to quote the stones, you can’t always get what you want. etc, etc, etc.

Brody goes nuts for buttered popcorn. Usually makes a mess turning one popped piece into 12 smaller crumbles. Then, he’ll eat the fluffier buttery kernels.

What on earth was she thinking?! There’s no way they will eat it.

Off-Topic – Whine Time again.

Tempting to leave the spellcheck corrections in, but looked like H.S.Thompson writing.

I mix cooked carrots (minced) along with frozen peas into homemade cat food(freezer chicken, freezer fish that I just dont want anymore). Tried it on my feralsfirst before the 2 housecoats, a senior and a 1 y.o. – they all snarfed it up.When I’ve put out basic cooked fish or chicken they look at it like“whazzat? where’s the can? gimme your sammich!”Some people at pet food stores recommend green beans, but I just dont see itthere would be too much gas and hard to digest. I had a cat who was nuts for celery in the garden, literally had an effect like catnip where she would roll around like she was snakedancing at a Grateful Dead concert. Never put it in cat food because I figure its an empty vegetable plus unknown effect (bad like onion/garlic?)Always tried to leave herb planters around for mint family plants since those are safe.

The snow has finally arrived here, pouring down heavily enough to disrupt some of the TV channels I get via the digital antenna. Might have to break down and stream Saltburn to see what all the fuss is about…

My heart cat Ninja LOVED cantaloupe! In fact, in my life, i’ve now owned 3 that liked it enough that they’d knock a whole melon off the counter if they had a chance. And all but one of my kits now get pumpkin with their wet food.

Have you ever seen a cat who’s been fed too much vegetable and not enough meat? I have. I was traumatized for months after. That poor, poor baby. Thankfully she had been removed from her less than responsible owner by a family member and eventually recovered. But the poor thing lost 5 teeth!

Wishing you a meaningful Martin Luther King Day.

Last night on The CW “Lupin” won for best foreign language film.

For the cat view of snow, BCN starts Feb. 8, 2023 and continues. Feb 12th is wonderful with ice skating birds.

OT: Ran out of FIP meds :(

May as well be feeding them chocolate and raisins.