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Jul

2008

Tell it to the paw!

3:03pm

Cat Snit's

Posted by ourstaff in Behavior & Training

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Snoggle

I have been feeling bad lately because I have had to place Snoggle on a stricter diet. I love my cats and have had a bad habit of showing that with food (I am getting better). I like the idea of having a lot of cat to love. But I would rather have less cat if it means having it round for a lot longer. I have to say no when Snoggle begs for food.
She is very good at it. She knows that if she waits until I am asleep and she gently wakes me up (over and over and over) that I can be prompted to open a container of dry food that I keep near the bed (cold floors and too lazy to get up at night). I have been able to resit her plans and she has become annoyed. I thought that we had worked through the pouting and hiding snits. Then I caught her. She was back to her old disgusting tricks. She waits until Fluzzy eats something and creeps up on her. Fluzzy is a jumpy little thing who will barf if she is startled. Snoggle knows that so if she is hungry she pops up and out pops food. The disgusting part you can imagine

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Cassie3
3 months ago

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I have four cats, all shapes and sizes. After Parker had struvite crystals, the vet recommended a diet of tuna fish mixed with spaghetti sauce. I use olive oil-based tuna and Ragu spaghetti sauce (my four like Ragu best). I also put in chopped green beans. Parker, who was too fat, looks great now. The olive oil keeps the fur balls under control. No more dry hacking! No more Petromalt for the first time in years! Their fur is shiny and smooth. Attila didn't like tuna at first and lost weight, but now she snarfs it up like the others. (Periodically, I mixed in a few crunchies to acclimate Attila to her new diet.) Daphne, who's always been too skinny, gained weight. All in all, it's been a great find. Also, it is less expensive than the pricey cat food they were being fed.

At the beginning, Parker and Attila were very vocal all hours of the day and night, begging for their crunchies. You must stay strong and ignore those pitiful meows!! LOL

ourstaff
3 months ago

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It isn't the meows that get me its the kisses and sneaky little "love nips". The real problem is that they have me so well trained that I have woke up in the morning with a handful of kibble (Fluzzy prefers to be hand fed when possible)