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Post by MamIDdau on Mar 19, 2008 20:07:22 GMT
Glad it's not just me who has conversations with cats... ;D
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Post by oldmoleskins on Mar 21, 2008 9:55:23 GMT
Have made the (almost) ultimate commitment and bought, encouraged by you lot, cat food.
Well, I say cat food, I will be conducting a taste-test (or rather the cat will) to find a winner between Tesco Premium Cat Crunchies with salmon trout tuna & shrimp and the Sainsbury equivalent - though theirs is called 'Complete', bet they wished they'd got in first with 'Premium Cat Crunchies'...
It is so unutterably dry and boring, I can't in feed it on that alone, but refuse to spend the ridiculous money demanded for any 'normal' tin or pouch. Blimey, they really have got you cat owners on a string, haven't they...
So, due to the miracle of Tesco 'Value' brand, I have bought industrial quantities of Value tuna chunks and can feed it her more cheaply that way - I reckon a 15p tin will make three meals with a few Crunchies etc lobbed in for variety. Trace elements can be obtained from PT shrews and mice, methinks. Feel a bit guilty about the poor tuna tho'.
Incidentally, I see precious little difference between the contents of a 'Value' tin and the Princes stuff, several times the price...
So yes, now, (at least for the purposes of the checkout queue) "My name is Old Moleskins and I HAVE A CAT" - but don't tell everybody...
OM.
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Post by Shrubrose on Mar 21, 2008 10:03:18 GMT
;D
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Post by JennyWrenn on Mar 21, 2008 10:32:01 GMT
Me thinks he doth protest too much  Have always fed my dogs on dried food - looks boring - but it must taste nice cos they cant wait to get at it - sometimes give a little titbit of chicken but not much as yu are not supposed to mix it Leave out plenty water cos dried food makes them more thirsty You will be putting her photo in a photo frame on your desk soon OM ;D |
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Post by MamIDdau on Mar 21, 2008 11:15:58 GMT
My cats are all on dry food but it's the pets at home stuff. £7 for 2kg. It is kitten food though so it's more expensive.
Eric is on dry food too. We have to give him a mix of bakers sensitive and the pets at home stuff because he won't eat the pets at home stuff on it's own anymore after having the bakers stuff temporarily.
Cats are notoriously fussy though so you might get away with cheaper food, or you might not. Experimentation required!!
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Post by nightowl on Mar 21, 2008 18:59:32 GMT
I'll be up there to stock up on Tesco's Value Tuna, OM, if it's only 15p a tin, cos it's 30-something-p down here  It's excellent stuff for the money even at that if a tad mushy. Almost as good as the dear stuff Glad to see she's getting you trained OM ;D "Woww, Moley, I'm hungry. Chirrrup-chirrup. Go to the shop...NOWWWW!!!" ;D ;D ;D |
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Post by Ruthie on Mar 21, 2008 20:55:16 GMT
In my experience the "value" tins contain just as good stuff as the more expensive but.............the tins are cr*p and my tin opener won't open them properly  She does remind me of my late departed Siamese cat " Sapphire Sadie" (I was only a young thing when we named her and I didn't see anything wrong with an irish name). She was my Familiar, like the witches cat. She was mine and mine only. She scratched anyone else who approached her (although she did tolerate OH) but I could do anything with her. She used to sit on my shoulders and go to sleep,while I was preparing a meal. She died, aged 20 and 2 months, from kidney failure.  i'll have to stop now 'cos I'm filling up........................... |
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Post by MamIDdau on Mar 22, 2008 17:49:14 GMT
You have a familiar too?!
OH makes a joke about me being a witch because I have long hair and used to have a black cat (Shadda) but Schmickles is my familiar now.
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Post by Ruthie on Mar 22, 2008 20:41:06 GMT
Yes April. I NOW have a black cat (see avatar) but she is familiar with/to no one!!
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Post by MamIDdau on Mar 23, 2008 14:07:31 GMT
Awwww I miss Shaddlybads. He was such a character. Hey ho, it was his time.
Black cats are gorgeous though ;D
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Post by oldmoleskins on Mar 23, 2008 21:07:26 GMT
Earlier today, not at all impressed with what may be a rare encounter with snow, it she came out of the nest in a discarded lounger cushion she's made in the hovel, and 'wowed' at me although we were between meals. Next thing she was in the open kitchen doorway, shaking each paw in turn to get the slush off. Wowing. Casting around for a treat, I retrieved a couple of prawn heads from lunch detritus and lobbed them at her - she grabbed one and took it back to bed. What happened next is quite beyond me... I took her a small saucer of warm milk. My neighbour says no-one gives milk to cats anymore, as it's been discovered they can't digest it and can actually be harmful. Quite apart from the fact that I really must stop indulging this cat, am I poisoning it with milk? In her nest:  OM. |
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Post by nightowl on Mar 23, 2008 21:35:18 GMT
"Took her a small saucer of warm milk"   OM, you are lost; beyond rescue by the Anti-cat Society I know they do say milk is not good for them but I think it's like the people-food scares. Cats have drunk milk for donkeys years and I haven't heard of many dropping dead cos of it  I always let my cat finish the milk in the cereal bowl and he's fine. I suppose maybe it's best kept as a treat, not every day.... |
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Post by Chuckles on Mar 23, 2008 22:30:50 GMT
Mmmmm who's the softy in this relationship ;D It's the lactose in milk that cats are unable to digest OM. Can't remember all the blurb I'm afraid it's from a previous life I had that has been wiped from my brain ;D Water is best really but the occasional bit of milk won't hurt and you could water it down I guess. You can get special cat milks but you wouldn't want to go to all that trouble would you ;D |
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Post by MamIDdau on Mar 23, 2008 22:49:50 GMT
You can get proper cat milk but it's best just to give them water as some cats are intolerant to lactose. I guess soya milk would be fine ;D
I just have dry food and water for my 3. Eric has the same with his dog food.
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Post by Missredhead on Mar 24, 2008 21:07:28 GMT
Prawn heads and WARM milk???
You are soooooo lost now ;D ;D ;D
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Post by Amo on Mar 24, 2008 23:02:31 GMT
Alcohol is not good for humans either. Warm Milk?!?!?! Oh dear you cat hater you Seriously, a little won't harm but day in day out will bugger up their kidneys. |
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Post by JennyWrenn on Mar 25, 2008 6:34:59 GMT
How about a nice hot water bottle wrapped in a fluffy blanket for these cold evenings ;D
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Post by Missredhead on Mar 25, 2008 7:53:21 GMT
;D
who for Jen..OM or the pussycat?
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Post by Amo on Mar 25, 2008 11:08:22 GMT
;D  ;D ;D |
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Post by Dutchy on Mar 25, 2008 19:05:11 GMT
Now how about getting a nice grinning cat smiley on the board.
I feel we are soon going to need one. ;D
As for the hotwater bottle ... whenn the weather is like this I suggest Om and Lulufish share one. Much nicer.
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Post by JennyWrenn on Mar 26, 2008 7:39:06 GMT
;D who for Jen..OM or the pussycat? They be sleeping in same bed soon - think Dutchy got the drift too ;D |
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Post by Missredhead on Mar 26, 2008 12:06:46 GMT
;D
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Post by Dutchy on Mar 26, 2008 18:23:47 GMT
Eh er I was not referring to a bed at all <innocent honest did not smiley>.
I just thought that as Spring and Summer will come the time for a little catnaps in the garden comes as well. Maybe OM would like to train for that in the GH right now and in that case he needs a warm water bottle, and a nice warm and purring cat.
Nothing is more relaxing.
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Post by Cheerypeabrain on Apr 28, 2008 20:23:06 GMT
How is Lulufish OM?....
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Post by oldmoleskins on Apr 29, 2008 13:06:06 GMT
Ahhhhh... we've reached something of a crisis... just the other day I was treated to an emotional breakthrough: while waiting for its her tuna, I noticed she was behaving in a kittenish sort of way, 'puddling' I believe it's called, pushing at the mat with her front paws in the same slightly distracted, absent way kittens push at their mum while suckling, and wowing all the time, so I stopped forking out the fish and wowed back whereupon she promptly threw herself on her back in an abandoned fashion and invited me to rub her tummy. I say 'invited' - I kind of assumed that's what she wanted. Bearing in mind this is a nervous cat that will not allow any real contact, it was astonishing trust. Sadly, it has been followed by a big upheaval in routine - the arrival of Noodle the Labradoodle for a couple of weeks' stay while rascally scarface nephew goes to Spain. Their first encounter was through the window. Noodle was very excited. Lulu froze, looked horrified, then fled. I think the chances of them playing nicely together are limited. So, for the moment, I keep Noodle severely indoors at Lulunosh time (9ish, 5.30ish) and she generally appears, but only to nervously grab some food and scuttle back to wherever she feels safest - as the middle of the day belongs to a free-ranging Noodle. I now have a Siamese cat and a curly white sheep-like dog with a pink rhinestone collar, neither of whose names I'd choose to have to call out loud on Yarmouth seafront. Strange times... OM. |
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Post by Shrubrose on Apr 29, 2008 17:23:32 GMT
S*d's law really OM, isn't it? Just as you're starting to get somewhere an event pushes you back a step. I guess though, Lulu is smart enough to wait it out and for the normal routine to be restored. It is lovely to read that she is beginning to show her trust in you though  |
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Post by JennyWrenn on Apr 29, 2008 18:16:57 GMT
Aw you still bonding then that's nice |
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Post by Tig on Apr 29, 2008 19:26:27 GMT
Hmm I expect there will be a lot of relieved 'wowing' when Noodle is re-united with your nephew then OM Tig |
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Post by Ruthie on Apr 29, 2008 19:46:04 GMT
I hope for your sake that she forgives you for bringing this interloper into what she now knows as her home!! You may find that there is penance to be done!
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Post by Amo on Apr 29, 2008 19:53:24 GMT
Double Lulufish rations with home cooked chicken I expect!!
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OM, you are lost; beyond rescue by the Anti-cat Society 
I always let my cat finish the milk in the cereal bowl and he's fine.
;D 
