considering a cat

that was xpost to what what do u feed obv.

will say, he was seriously having a hard time. i'd find him on the bed zonked out, he wasnt too responsive. he'd just rest his little chin on my hand and close his eyes. didnt even resist getting into the carrier.

our kitty has renal failure and gets special food FROM FRANCE.

I mean I think Michael White would eat this stuff.

It is made of goose livers t/f?

more like stinky cheese iirc

poor drac :(

I mean I think Michael White would eat this stuff.

I always laugh when I think of the stuff my cats have eaten; quail, partridge, lobster, crab, various nibbles of charcuterie, stolen bites of macaron. One of our cats has a penchant for viennoiserie and will fight you for your croissant.

To return to cutty's remark, though, the old one needs wet food for the water content (he's 20 and undergoing the usual renal degradation and drinks all the time) but he's still awfully picky so I switch up the wet food all the time. Luckily there are lots of pet food stores in close radius around my house that have lots of wholistic cat food made by free-range hippies or whatever and he likes most of their food for a week or two before it get's switched out.

Drac's brother Morrie adores triple cream blue cheese, especially St. Agur. He also stole some truffled foie canard pate once - delicately licked each little bit of truffle clean though and left them on the floor.

In French, wet cat food is called paté pour chat (paté for cats) and once the cat gets into the paté, regardless of what it's made of or who it was for, it becomes paté pour chat.

Our eldest cat loves triple cream brie and pretty much any other cheese she can get her little mitts on. She can even recognize the sound of someone unwrapping string cheese from another room and while in a deep sleep.

it's just a cat lol just feed it dry food

The old dude likes this line a lot,

http://www.merrickpetcare.com/store/canned_cat_food.php

Jaq = Hunt3r's 'er outdoors?

I should probably say that I do not regularly feed my cat fancy cheeses (she has to have special food because she had a bladder stone a couple of years ago), but if we are eating fancy cheese I will give her a little bite as a treat because she's old and I love her and it makes her happy plus it's really cute when she does this little cat Ninja paw swipe where she keeps her head lower than the coffee table but hooks her paw across the surface trying to get at some cheese.

Jaq = Hunt3r's 'er outdoors?

no

I was just commiserating with Hunt3r on diabetic cat ownership.

Jenny, I love that image :)

cutty don't you mean 'er indoors? 'er outdoors would be like an outside cat or maybe an outside wife

anyway i feed my cat other cats ; )

That site cutty linked has a rat carcass comparison chart :)

cat nutrition nazis 2010

mewtrition

one of my cats eats all the food the other kind of just wants it
I have to play d on the fat cat sometimes so the other one can eat

hahahaha

cat mewtrition pawzis 2010

cat is struggling to adjust to daylight savings time -- he now sits on my head at six am rather than five am

haha same thing with my cat!

i hope you are all fans of horatio :)

i am most sincere in my facebookery

guys my dad is going a little nuts w/ the horatio facebook page now! should i un-admin him?

tell him he hit 51 SBs and is temp-banned

I made a giant batch of raw cat food this weekend. It's disgusting glop, 4 lbs of ground organic chicken thighs and 3/4 lb of ground chicken livers all mixed up with a cup of powdered supplements and 2 cups of water. They totally love it.

that is awesome! my mom has been feeding horatio homemade food but i guess she left the livers separate because he will eat everything else and turn his nose up at the liver!

I'm probably going to keep buying the frozen stuff from Primal or maybe try that one cutty linked to that would have to ship from the bay area, once I've used up all the supplement powder. It cost more to make it myself than buy the little frozen bricks. Sold all the unopened cans of prescription food back to the vet on Saturday - nice to not have to deal with that smelly stuff anymore tbh. Horatio doesn't know what he's missing, mmmm chicken livers. I made the rest of the package up into paté pour des personnes, with shallots and Cockspur rum.

my cat seriously loves the raw stuff, she goes nuts for it. the sound of her gobbling it up is hilarious. jaq you are brave for trying it yourself!

just watched my cat eat a dragonfly :-/

i love it when cats catch a bug in midair. so badass.

there is a cat named chaucer with a flat, fat face that needs adopting

i think as soon as i get an apartment and am settled i am going to get a cat

^ ^ ^

want a cat or a dog so bad now, but know that it would not be the responsible thing to do.

i realllly want a dog but i have come to accept that i will never be home enough and it's not fair. at least for now.

ok there is a 13 year old female cat on the adopt a cat page and they say she is having a really hard time being in a shelter and doesn't understand and is depressed. she is very cheap because she is old.

and she is a flame point persian.

You should totally get her. The old ones are really heartbreaking.

feel sorry for the cat but why do that to yourself

Cats can live to be 20 so you could give her seven awesome years! My eldest cat is 13 and she totally rocks. She sleeps more than she used to and instead of spryly jumping up on the couch, she kind of climbs up the side (which is cute, but kind of unfortunate for the upholstery) but she's still 100% zany, adorable, very lovey dovey cat. AND she gets some serious institutional rage when we take her to the vet, as in they have to knock her out to perform a routine exam, so if she were in a shelter, she'd probably lose her fucking mind. But then as soon as we bring her home, she's up on my lap trying to crawl under my shirt again.

So, in summary, based on my anecdote, you should definitely adopt the 13 yo female flame point persian.

I would not mind giving a cat even one more great year.

<3 that sentiment just a little bit

my only hesitation is that i have a ridiculous little boy cat and i dont want him to terrorize her

I would not mind giving a cat even one more great year.

This is prob my all-time favourite ilx post. Has been on my mind all week and makes me want to adopt an old cat as well.

Thanks, dude! I'm gonna go see her tomorrow and ask questions of the shelter people re: getting along with a younger, wilder cat.

found out my cat is somehow freaked out by the smell of sunscreen? ...considering how this can be useful