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Bought a dozen crickets for the cats today and dumped them in the tub. Every cat had a taste; no holdouts!
Also decided my freezer was never going to be empty of the mice until I did something about it. So I defrosted a handful, sharpened my knife, gritted my teeth (NOTE: IF YOU'RE SQUEAMISH, STOP READING!!!), and...
...gutted the suckers. *shudder* The things we do for our cats.
And after all that drama, only the two kittens were interested in eating them. And they still refused to JUST eat them. (Why oh WHY do cats have to toss mice? Is that Rule #11 in some secret kitty handbook passed down through the generations or something? Can't they eat them exactly the same way they eat everything else? Well?)
Since I really do want my cats to have at least one mouse per week (after all, I've got 200 hundred of the darn things), mostly for the brain and other organs (small as they are), I believe I'm going to have to get really down and dirty and not just gut them, but cut them up into bite size pieces and rub turkey or chicken juices on them.
I've got another handful defrosting now. I'll let y'all know how it goes.
Also decided my freezer was never going to be empty of the mice until I did something about it. So I defrosted a handful, sharpened my knife, gritted my teeth (NOTE: IF YOU'RE SQUEAMISH, STOP READING!!!), and...
...gutted the suckers. *shudder* The things we do for our cats.
And after all that drama, only the two kittens were interested in eating them. And they still refused to JUST eat them. (Why oh WHY do cats have to toss mice? Is that Rule #11 in some secret kitty handbook passed down through the generations or something? Can't they eat them exactly the same way they eat everything else? Well?)
Since I really do want my cats to have at least one mouse per week (after all, I've got 200 hundred of the darn things), mostly for the brain and other organs (small as they are), I believe I'm going to have to get really down and dirty and not just gut them, but cut them up into bite size pieces and rub turkey or chicken juices on them.
I've got another handful defrosting now. I'll let y'all know how it goes.