We gave my late Purdy a lion cut a few times. We don't live in a warm climate and it rarely gets hot where we live on the coast. The reason I chose to have him shaved was instead because he tended to drag his deposits from the litterbox around the house on his fur and they would fall off on...
I've always liked close-ups of feline faces, and the texture of the hair stands out so much on a close-up of a black cat. I deliberately cropped out the white diamond on Sheba's chest to emphasize the texture of the black hair.
Within a few hours after I wrote the above post, I was getting ready for bed when AWK! A bat came zooming down the hall toward the bedroom with two cats hot in pursuit. It turned back as I slammed the door. I didn't want that thing in my bedroom! Like a coward, I stayed in my room while my...
I just have to share the latest episode of Sheba, my little killing machine. But first some history.
Sheba was adopted from the local PAWS in 2004 after they rescued her from a colony of 50+ starving cats that had formed in the country and were living in basically a garbage dump after an...
cococalypso - I tried adding some hot tap water to the leftover canned food and offered it to Purdy tonight and he refused to touch it. When I offered it to my #1 fat cat, Red Cat, though, he consumed it all even though it had Purdy's medicine in it. (I read in the literature as well as was...
Thanks for those links, Cloud Shade.
I got some Fancy Feast at the local store last night and Purdy ate enough of that to get his medicine down in it. They didn't have a pate, but I got the Chicken Feast, which is like a pate and pieces mixed. Purdy didn't eat the pieces, but since the...
The powder prescription he was given is Epakitin, which is a nutritional supplement containing Lactose, Calcium carbonate, Chitosan, and Hydrolyzed soy protein. So is that a phosphate binder? I'm trying to read about it on the web, but I've had health problems this week myself and right now just...
Thanks for the suggestion, but it may not be practical in my circumstances. The cat with CRF eats only small amounts at a time, so eats maybe six or eight times a day. Perhaps over time I can learn how much I dare leave out (covered and away from my #1 fat cat, who would be happy to help...
Thanks, jcat. That's what I was afraid of. I don't think I can get him to eat nearly that much. I don't think he averaged more than about half a can a day the first couple of days. Plus, I let him supplement that with some of his previous dried food, since it's best to shift them over...
One of my cats, Purdy, has been put on a special diet food, K/D for his kidney problem. The vet said it was more important that he DID eat than WHAT he ate, so I'd like an idea if he is eating an adequate amount. I've never tried to feed canned food only and in recent years have fed only dried...