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« Reply #15 on: 12:23:28, 01-07-2008 » |
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Oh cripes. I can see a Vegetarian Cat Room looming  IRF, my beasts won't go near mackerel. It's probably the one fish I can eat without having to repel boarders. Apart from salmon. <Sniff. Look of disdain. Exit with tail in the air in a gesture of disgust> My cat won't go near any "proper" meat or fish at all except for prawns, and I try to limit those since they're so bad for your cholesterol levels (she said, assuming cats are affected by it in the same way.) My neighbour brought him some salmon once as an extra special treat, which was studiously ignored much to my embarassment.  |
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« Reply #16 on: 12:27:06, 01-07-2008 » |
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So as not to perpetuate the feline in grump-land... Sorry Rubes  When a thread gets split the name that appears as the originator of the new thread is, oh, but you've already worked that one out You are not nuts   I will not make any more felix references here. Promise. That choice of picture is quite bizarre, it's almost identical to the picture I did for the interview with my art foundation course, except my cat was facing a mirror on the left.  I suppose it's a fairly obvious idea isn't it really? Hey ho...  |
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« Reply #17 on: 12:29:20, 01-07-2008 » |
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Has anyone else heard of cats liking cheese, at all??
BBM, cheese is much liked by cats. In fact they like it so much, they also wear it  |
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« Reply #18 on: 12:35:58, 01-07-2008 » |
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Rather than Marmite (though one did quite enjoy wee squares of it on toast) ours tended to go for yeast tablets. A rattle of the bottle was normally enough to get them galloping out of the fields at the back to come in. One even used to sit on his hind legs and catch them in his front paws, and transfer them to his mouth whilst still vertical. Strange, because he was a far from clever cat - it took him half his life to learn how to purr, and he was the only cat we ever had who got sunstroke from staying out too long in the heat....
Most of them would have cheese if they were permitted: baked beans, mackerel in tomato sauce and raw liver were regular treats. One even developed a liking for raw pastry, to the point of standing on his hind legs with his paws on the edge of the work surface yowling until he was given a couple of scraps.
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« Reply #19 on: 12:38:53, 01-07-2008 » |
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That choice of picture is quite bizarre, it's almost identical to the picture I did for the interview with my art foundation course, except my cat was facing a mirror on the left. I suppose it's a fairly obvious idea isn't it really? Hey ho... Can I just qualify that by saying that a) I was only 17 and b) it wasn't intended to be quite as twee as that... I think the brief was "Ambition" or suchlike. I don't want the esteemed company to think that I'm the sort that turns up at craft fairs with little watercolours of teddy bears or kittens smiling at each other with ribbons on their heads holding baskets of flowers...  |
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« Reply #20 on: 12:40:25, 01-07-2008 » |
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A rattle of the bottle was normally enough to get them galloping out of the fields at the back to come in
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« Reply #21 on: 12:44:50, 01-07-2008 » |
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Although cats and dogs in the wild are carnivores, this is perhaps because it's all they can get. I've noticed that my own animals are omnivores - much like ourselves if we did but admit it. Even the tortoise that I've been looking after for the last 10 days and which came complete with it's own salad provisions - eats slugs and insects -because I've watched it do so. Years ago I saw one munching on a dead bird. I'm veggie as you know, but I feed my dog on Eukanuba chicken and rice, with half a can of Butcher's tripe mixed in for extra taste. I have no qualms at all in giving an animal meat, or meat to a child either. It is an important source of protein. Neither children nor animals usually care to exist on nuts and lentils, although adults can choose to do so if they prefer. I don't believe it is at all fair to change the basic diet of another creature to suit your own beliefs. I do so hope that Pixie is fixed up with a loving home soon. I couldn't offer one myself because of my dog and all my semi-tame wild birds in the garden with whom I co-exist. To say that animal food smells awful isn't true. They have improved the recipes tremendously now both in the fish and meat lines and let's face it, it's usually gone so fast there isn't time for any odours to linger provided the bowls are immediately picked up and washed. I don't wash animal bowls in the kitchen sink because of bacteria, but do this outside in the utility room. If you don't have that facility, a separate bowl of water and detergent close by would suffice. Poor Pixie.  |
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« Reply #22 on: 12:45:52, 01-07-2008 » |
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« Reply #23 on: 12:46:49, 01-07-2008 » |
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I don't want the esteemed company to think that I'm the sort that turns up at craft fairs with little watercolours of teddy bears or kittens smiling at each other with ribbons on their heads holding baskets of flowers... But, but, but ... you tried to sell me one of these only the other week!  |
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« Reply #24 on: 13:02:15, 01-07-2008 » |
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But, but, but ... you tried to sell me one of these only the other week!
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« Reply #25 on: 13:10:01, 01-07-2008 » |
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I thought you agreed we'd keep that quiet...
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« Reply #26 on: 13:19:18, 01-07-2008 » |
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My cat loves sultanas. When she was very ill a few years ago (liver problems - both her siblings died of it) it's all she would eat. The mere rustle of the packet makes her run round in circles yowling and saluting like Adolf Hitler.* I took her to the vet this morning and she peed on her (the cat on the vet not the other way round)! Talk about passive-aggressive. I apologised and said it was my fault. I'd grabbed the cat, crammed her in her box and rushed from the house before she'd performed her morning toilette. The vet looked long-suffering and mopped herself with a Kleenex. Then later, as I paid the bill, she played 'exploding cat box' and frightened a bull terrier, owned by a pair of spinsters, half to death. He was only trying to be friendly. The spinsters glared at me, I laughed nervously and said 'Bad cat!' She looked smug, and a dribble of pee leaked from her box. * Presumably everyone knows this site? |
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« Reply #27 on: 13:26:00, 01-07-2008 » |
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In the dim and distant past when I was a kid, my mother used to cook "lights", which I believe are lungs, for the cat. They smelt vile, but the cat seemed to like them. As far as I remember, special cat food didn't exist at that time.
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« Reply #28 on: 13:41:11, 01-07-2008 » |
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Mary, my mother used to boil Whiting for our cat <holding nose emoticon> then Kitekat (can't remember the spelling) was invented. I seem to remember it had a vivid blue wrapper. It smelt vile! It was pink, had bits of fishbone and absolutely reeked of fish, in the worst way. The cat loved it though. She also loved chewing the end off the cucumber that came in our weekly grocery delivery. If the box wasn't immediately taken into the kitchen, she was in there, chomping away |
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« Reply #29 on: 13:45:23, 01-07-2008 » |
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then Kitekat (can't remember the spelling)
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