What silly things do you do to spoil the kitties?

I started thinking about this when we were coming home from Petsmart with 2-4lb. bags of the cats' food. We started buying the smaller bags when they were out of the bigger sized bags one time, so we didn't really have a choice. We decided to keep buying the small bags because Ophelia gets so excited when we open a new bag of food. It's so adorable - she hovers and prances around whoever is opening the new bag and can't wait to take that first bite of fresh food. It's a little more expensive doing it this way (but just by $2-4 per month, really), but it's worth it for her to be so happy with a new bag of food.

I know I'm not the only one here who does silly and even impractical things to add to the happiness of our kitties. What do you do?

I buy treats like crabmeat, shrimp, or calamari for Jamie, and make hardboiled eggs for him. I also buy a lot of cat toys, the latest addition being "Da Bird". I definitely give into his food whims, too - little cans, three different brands of dry open at any given time, and constant rotating of brands (so small bags here, too). We have acrylic blankets, which he loves, at the foot of all beds, and thrown over the backs of the sofas, where he can pull them down to make a "nest".

My 4 "kitty boys" get the TV turned to Cartoon Network and get 30 minutes of extra "tv time" after I leave for work. 40 minutes if they'ev been really good the night before.

I hand-feed Lucy her wet food. Carly and Much get so excited about it that they dig right in. Lucy isn't interested until I start hand-feeding her.

We pull up the shade to the top of the window and re-arrange the curtains and cords just so the girls can have an unobstructed view of 'their' tree and the yard.

Then every night I arrange the blankets we keep on the couches 'just so' so they can nest down in them all snuggly for the night.

whos house? You mean their house?

I spoil my babies by having really nothing off limits to them.

They repay me by leaving my sewing machien and tarts alone lol

Hm, recently we got a bird feeder to attract birds to the front yard because they love watching them through the windows. On their birthday, we put a candle in a can of tuna and sang Happy Birthday, then blew out the candle for them and put a little bit of tuna on a plate for them to eat (they didn't eat it).

Originally Posted by neetanddave

My 4 "kitty boys" get the TV turned to Cartoon Network and get 30 minutes of extra "tv time" after I leave for work. 40 minutes if they'ev been really good the night before.

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We went though a period of having to turn on "Teletubbies" for Jamie every evening, and one of my sister's cats is addicted to Disney's animated films!

I've begun giving Pudge a chunk of raw muscle/organ meat a week. She also gets shrimp every once in a while.

It keeps her teeth in better shape than they would be in otherwise, and she loves them.

She also fell in love with a box I got an ebay purchase in, so it's been on my desk for a few months now. she has such fun in it (and uses it as a bed a lot) that I'd feel evil throwing it away.

besides specifically moving into a townhome so the my kitties could have cat walks and high places to climb (besides their condo's and cat trees)

I cut fresh fruit just for them. Chiclet LOVES papaya. We buyt them live crickets, have it on animal planet 24-7 so they can watch other animals and other kitties play

My babies get bits of meat when I debone beef or or chicken.

We get an entire butchered organic steriod-free angus every year.
No one else in the family eats liver, so I cook it up with an arm roast cut for them and blenderize it.

The dog gets raw soup bones, only dog his age I've ever met with no tartar build up and no dog breath.

Today they got a new cat dancer, but Vash is insane and I had to put it away after 5 minutes, he was panting

I do various things.
I.e. one time I came home from Costco and the box I had with me I sat on the floor. Beauty hopped right in it and didn't leave it for the rest of the evening.
So the next day I went to the fabric store and for $8 made it into a bed!

I give them treats once a morning right after feeding them. Patches loves that!

If Luna is cranky then I'll set her by a window so that she can watch the birds. Takes her mind right off of whatever is bothering her.

I bought Da Bird for Whitey...and he'll sometimes share with Beauty and Luna

Cat toys are a weakness. It's like being a kid in the Toys store ("OMG, Whitey would SO love this").

Master Leo gets food with Kitty Kaviar mixed in at every meal, just so.

I usually wait a day or so to fold laundry because Gracie just loooooooooves to lay in the basket full of clean clothes

I also have a bird feeder on my windowsill just for these little sweeties.

Another thing I do (I just remembered this when I DID it this morning )
I dig the real-fur mice out from under the couch for Luna.
We have hardwood floors, so they slid under and far back so Luna can't get them.

It was like Christmas morning when I pulled them out this morning! She's been a happy camper since!

Originally Posted by valanhb

she hovers and prances around whoever is opening the new bag and can't wait to take that first bite of fresh food.

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That sounds so cute Heidi!

Let's see. We open windows for Abby even when it is below freezing We also have numerous bird feeders that are kept full for her viewing pleasure. She has two heated pads and a heated perch. She has more toys than most children do. I also drive to a store about a half hour away to buy her favorite treats.

Oh yeah we spoil our babies too! I buy way too many toys for them, Castor and Pollux treats and cat grass or organic wheat grass. Each of them has their own special requirements for being spoiled.

Tiny likes to eat in our bathroom, and she loves to have her treats in bed. Tiny also has a favorite side of my comforter, and it has to be perfectly smooth before she will lie down on it!

Bucky likes to sit on the computer chair in my sewing room/office so we let her have it and sit on the sewing machine stool instead. Bucky likes to sharpen her claws on my fiddle case...and I let her.

Sister likes catnip so we make sure to keep some on hand for her, and I even spray the cat furniture with it for her. She also loves to sit in the recliner, so we let her have it.

So, my most recent indulgance for miss Frankie is a Vera Bradley pillow. Yup, you read right... she's always using my VB purse as a pillow so I'm going to take a small one (too small for me to use really) stuff it with nice soft stuff and let her use that as a pillow. She looks so sad when I take her pillow (my purse) as I leave the house.

One of the big reasons we bought our home last year was because it was a lot bigger than our last. We don't need this size house for the 2 humans, but man the cats love it! When we first looked at it, on the way out I tell DH "the cats will love this house" and he said yup. Funny that was our first thought.

So even though DH absolutely loves to look out windows and we have a big sun room, the windows are lined with cat trees.

We added bird feeders outside the kitchen window so our babies can watch the birds.

And when we had the kitchen remodel done, we actually measured the width of the cats and asked the construction guys to build window ledges that could hold them comfortably. Imagine me chasing the cats around with a tape measure and trying to measure how wide they were!

It's all about the cats!!

Where do I begin?

They have a full basket of toys, right now Cassy is chasing one of those soft mice, she throws it up into the air, then chases it.

They get really good food. On a side note, my dog eats cooked meat (the cheap frozen human kind). I tried to do the homemade cat dinners, no luck. So the dog gets all the good stuff.

They get baths, they love their baths, they hate being 'stale'.

I talk to them constantly, I sing praises to them, my DK's get so jealous, it's pathetic. Don't kids know that cats are to be 'almost' worshipped?

Oh man where do I start. They get salads of leafy green veggies because they like it. Every time I go to the kitty store they get toys. They sleep with us even though they wake us up every single morning. They are allowed just about anywhere that isn't dangerous to them including the counters and the kitchen table. I could go on and on and on, but I won't.