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It’s a Conspiracy!
The cats get two treats a day, except when they conspire, which these days, is quite often. You see, Scamper is skittish so we have to give Junior his bowl first, otherwise, he pushes her away from her bowl. She won’t smack him because we’re standing right there since we just put the bowl down. By the time we back away and she gets brave, most of her snack is gone.
So we give Junior his bowl and then across the kitchen, Scamper gets hers.
Only lately, we’d swear that they have been plotting to get extra treats. Here is how it went this morning:
Junior spots me at the window and comes running in. “It’s morning! It’s TREAT TIME!!!!” He nearly wipes out running into the kitchen. Just the happiest cat on the planet, I tell you. There’s no sign of Scamper.
I spoon out pureed roasted chicken (nothing but the best for these feral cats). He laps it up. Then he heads for the door, calling out.
Waaaait just a minute here. Junior rarely squeaks/meows. He stands in front of the cat door and gives a good long meeeeow. Then he hops out the cat door. And guess who comes IN???
Yup, it’s Scamper. She heads to treat spot like a little bullet. Hmmm.
I’m suspicious, but I go to the kitchen…flap, flap, flap goes the cat door. Well. Who can it be, but little Junior beelining back to the kitchen? And if I don’t give him some, he’ll keep Scamper away…
Little stinkers. I swear they plan these things. Just yesterday, Scamper got her treat and then Junior showed up a minute later. She waited politely in treat spot because she knew we were getting his treat even though she had just finished hers!
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Spoiled!!
Comment by April — November 21, 2011 @ 9:34 am
I see your cats have you trained as well as my Westies have trained us. When the DH is at home, the westies refuse to eat anything except “human food” because they know Dad always gives in if they wait long enough.
Comment by Bo — November 22, 2011 @ 3:13 pm
They are all stinkers! We do actually create a “good” recipe for them that is supposed to be good for their health. They seem to like it, which is nice, but sometimes the begging and scheming gets to be a bit much!!! Stinkers!
Comment by Maria — November 22, 2011 @ 3:15 pm
Scamper may be skittish and even strange, but she’s not stupid. LOL. BTW, do you have good (and relatively easy) cat food or treat recipes?
Comment by LuvMyKindle — November 24, 2011 @ 12:05 am
No, she’s no dummy! I don’t know about “easy” but you can take any cooked chicken and puree it with water in a blender. Here’s what we do:
Bake 10 chicken quarters, (or 20 thighs or so) and 4 chicken breasts in 1/2 cup soy sauce with about two cups of water. PLENTY of fat in that. We let the whole mess cool after cooking and skim the fat off.
Toward the end of the oven time, I put in a pan of water with four containers of chicken livers and bake those. Those don’t take long and are what flavor the chicken puree. They cook in about half an hour. We use all the liquid and the deboned chicken.
If you don’t want to mess with chicken livers, don’t use the breast meat. It tends to not freeze as well as the dark meat.
Take the chicken carefully off the bones, puree with a liver or two, some of the liver water and additional water in each blender batch. We then freeze in containers and pull out about one per week.
When I find chicken on sale, this recipe ends up costing less than dry cat food. They love it. You can use ANY leftover turkey or chicken to make it.
For Thanksgiving, we boil the liver, neck and giblets and puree that with a bit of meat. If you have lots of leftover turkey each year, just save those livers to flavor the meat for the cat (the neck can be time-consuming to get any meat from–just boil it for the flavor. Same for the gizzards. You really are after the broth here.)
Turkey is generally much higher in salt than the chicken quarters, so no soy or any extra salt in there.
Anytime you have chicken cats will eat it as a treat. We pureed ours to start because it’s a great way to get medicine down them. They can’t smell the medicine over the chicken livers/chicken.
Comment by Maria — November 24, 2011 @ 8:59 am