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I've had Ollie for about three months now, and I've noticed one funny/interesting thing since we've let him start sleeping in the bedroom. My husband and I normally play with Ollie for ~20-30 mins at 9PM every night, give him food, attempt to brush him, then get ourselves ready for bed...

Just to offer a potentially dissenting opinion: at those prices for slow cookers I'd actually consider looking into an electrical pressure cooker as an option, especially a multi-function one. For about the price of those recommended slow cookers you can potentially get a pressure cooker that...

Well I was able to check on Ollie last night and body shape-wise he seems to be okay. I can feel his spine when I pet him, and I can feel his ribs okay if I put one hand on each side and lightly press in. Of course, I'm worrying a little that I can't feel them enough now If I pet with both...

I'm certainly finding out that feeding cats isn't the simple science I thought it was! Ollie is reasonably fluffy -- a semi-longhaired cat which makes it difficult to see where his belly is. He's more "longhaired sleek" than "big puffball of fur". On that chart I'd probably say he was a 5 (but...

bonepicker, I would if I could. See below: Lisa, yes, he does seem to be munging again, but this time from actual real hunger than anything else. He is on 100% dried, Royal Canin Vetinary Diet Gastro. We had been given a few packs of the wet version from the vet a couple of weeks ago (when we...

So we switched Ollie to RC Gastro dry and medically he seems to be doing fine -- using the litter tray once a day (instead of the 2-3 times he was before) and much better formed too. However, we noticed he was also starting to do out of character things -- coming up and licking his (empty) food...

Oh yes. The person I got Ollie from said he didn't get on with wet food, though it looked like she fed jelly or gravy type wet food. Because, if I can help it, I don't like having a cat on an all-dry diet I bought a few things for him to try -- gravies he'd lick and jellies he'd munch, but he'd...

I know that rosemary extract is pretty far removed from actual rosemary that you'd encounter in the supermarket. It goes through a pretty rigorous process and if I handed to you the rosemary extract used in food you wouldn't be able to tell me it was rosemary extract. It's extracted...

Just checked with my husband and it was panacur. It might be worth asking about flagyl on the follow-up call with the vet tomorrow.

I've got a little mini chocolate fondue pot that uses a tea light as a heat source. It came with four skewers but I'm not quite sure it's big enough for four people's worth of chocolate. I got it about a month and a half ago and I've used it once, though I'm supposed to be on a diet anyway so...

Yeah, Ollie could have picked up giardia from pretty much anywhere. So that almost 300kcal a day allowance is a little too much -- Ollie weighed in at 4.5kg on Sunday. Still within acceptable amounts but we decided to reduce his food back to where it was. We're still going to keep an eye on...

Not yet got to the weekly weigh-in, but Ollie did great while on his medication, and now is right back to where he was before with bowel trouble. My husband just called up the vet to explain, and apparently they had been intending to call us to get an update. We're now getting more giardia...

Good to hear that Hecate is now getting used to wet food and meals :) I can add my voice into a recommendation for Sheba -- I dunno if the ingredients are markedly different in the US, but in the UK the classic terrine versions seem to be just meat & animal derivatives and minerals in the...

For a kitty needing to lose weight, you'd ideally want the food that's most filling with the fewest calories in it. So, realistically/ideally that's a food with high protein, moderate fat, and low carb, and almost needless to say wet instead of dried (as wet is more satiating simply due to there...

It could be the flavour, could be the texture, could be that she's not used to seeing wet food as food, or could be that she's filled up on the dried. I got Ollie and was told "he doesn't get on with wet food" and in my experience so far? Food in jelly and gravy is a no-go as he only licks the...

Maybe phrase it in a positive way? "Oh, my cats seem to love [brand of food]! And I think I can really notice a difference -- their coats look really glossy and they're always full of energy." Make it so that feeding a higher quality food looks like a positive rather than you seeming like a...

Neko Atsume/Cat Collector Basically you put down toys and food to encourage neighbourhood kitties to come and visit you. Most of the cats will visit regardless of what food and toys you have, but some special cats will only interact with certain toys and only turn up if you have specific food...

I can't recall what the other option for the medication was (my husband took the call) but he said "Ollie eats wet food, so we can take the granules". Thankfully, Ollie's been fuss-free about eating it all up (though he did throw up a little last night, poor thing). Strangely, he's been leaving...

Donutte, yup, weighing him at home. It's a regular people scale, not a baby scale, so I can't see to the same detail. Either myself or my husband weigh ourselves and then we grab Ollie and stand on the scales with him. Lunch & dinner Ollie got his 20g of food/an extra 40kcal for the day, and...

Hah, I'm trying to lose weight and my husband needs to keep an eye on his weight (for medical issues) so it was all too easy to slot Ollie in next to us So, some good news: we finally got test results back from the vets, and Ollie has Giardia. Okay, maybe news on him having a parasite wouldn't...