Breaking Cat News by Georgia Dunn for May 16, 2018

once a week, eh? bogart wants his little perfect portions twice a day.

that’s right, pucky, spoon, fork, bib, that’s playin’ it cool.

Pucky’s eyes are getting bigger and bigger! WFW is the best day of the week!

Well, play it as cool as possible anyway. (And try not to drool).

Play it cool boy, real cool, da da da da da da da da da da

You’ve heard of lobster bibs. Now hear of canned food bibs.

She-Who-Is-Spoiled-Rotten-And-Thinks-She-Deserves-It gets wet tinned food in the morning, a kibble snack for lunch, and homemade lightly cooked chicken in broth for dinner. This is the only way we can be sure she is getting enough water.

She refuses to drink plain water, unless the weather is really, really, hot. and then only a lick or two.(And, yes, we’ve tried one of those things that recirculates water over a little waterfall. She drank twice, and then ignored it.)

However do you manage giving your cats wet food once a week? Ours would never stand for it! Never, I tell you! I mean, we had Dozer who’d been a neighborhood stray given dry food by her carer and clearly preferred it when she moved in with us, but she still ate a little canned food at every meal. More as she aged and didn’t feel like putting as much effort into eating.

I have to make sure my guys don’t see this. They never get wet food and turn up their noses if offered a tidbit from my plate. Of course, it’s because I’ve never offered them wet food so they don’t know what they’re missing. Don’t TELL!!!!

My two are like Puck (absolutely adorable as usual) until the food is actually in front of them and sniffed. If it is not to Dean’s liking he will walk away in a huff while Sammy will at least try a few mouthfuls before deciding he too does not like that flavour. And flavours they gobbled down a few months ago are now snubbed so I have to constantly rotate their flavour selection … but they’re not spoilt at all ;-)

One of our cats has a problem with throwing up. It’s not really a hairball thing, it’s more of an “eats too quickly without chewing” thing. (Her name is Chirper, so she now has the nickname of Chirper the Urper… but I digress). They have dry food down all the time, in a gravity feeder so it’s not like there’s ever any real danger of running out, but when she goes to eat… she just scarfs it down, and then brings it back up 3-4 times a week. So our vet suggested mixing in powdered laxative in wet food every day.

Well, obviously we couldn’t give just one of them wet food, so every night while making dinner, they each got about a sixth of a can of wet food, one of them having a bit of powder mixed in first. This went on for about a year before we decided that the laxative really wasn’t doing any good in the urping department, and making things worse… at the other end of things.

…But we couldn’t very well just stop giving them the canned food, now could we?

It’s probably been about 2 years since we did stop, and they’re still trying to trip me as I cook dinner, hoping/expecting to get dinner as well.

Yang got wet food pretty much every morning. When the evening came around and time for the “big” meal, he always looked forward to Chile Relleno Friday.

My parents’ half wild (I’m convinced her father was a species of mountain cat) tabby princess, Tinkerbelle, who gets everything she wants and has to have her food prepared a certain way: A mix of wet food with crunchy kibble but it has to be mixed in just so or else she won’t touch it. The type of wet food also matters immensely. Of all the cats my parents have had I’ve never seen such spoiledness! And she’s the type of kitty who just doesn’t like anyone—she will scratch and bite my parents all day long even though they shower her with love. I remember some of our past kitties being made to starve until they’d eat their crunchy food because the wet food was just too expensive, despite my brother and I imploring my parents to just give in and buy Tux a tin of wet food. Last time I saw Tinkerbelle was just before I left for my new life in England. I remember I was watching television minding my own business and it’s as if Tinkerbelle could sense a change coming and she didn’t particularly like it or she was just ultra restless because she was practically bouncing off the walls, running in and out of all the rooms, no one could settle her down. Then, out of nowhere she jumps onto the sofa and bites me on the arm! No provocation whatsoever. I didn’t even look at her when she was glaring at me from the other side of the room. It’s as if she had to punish me for leaving! My whole family was upset that I was going away . . it’s like she voiced all their upsetness over it in biting me. Besides her I never met a cat I didn’t get along well with. Since her kittenhood I felt like she was always upset with me and I never knew the reason why. I was never anything but loving and kind to her. She really reminds me of my elder sister incarnate, lol! Sorry folks I really did digress here!

Sigh … once again I can’t see the comic today. And any attempt to read replies to comments takes me to a general screen which tells me how many comics have been updated today on this site.

There’s anticipation after a busy day

When the pangs of hunger can be turned away

After bowls of kibble, enough to see us through

It’s enough for three busy kitties waiting now for you!

Canned food’s being served tonight!

The kitchen’s where we are!

I grab my fork and don my bib

See the dish afar!

Canned food’s being served tonight!

It’s the very best.

Three hungry cats will eat it up

And not leave any mess!!

I don’t think I have ever seen Elvis so excited.

About 20 yrs back we had a big fluff ball who developed diabetes. Up to that point all our cats had only dry kibble. But now one cat had to go on what the vet called the “Catkins” diet….more protein in wet food form and fewer carbs ie kibble. Well as others have said, you can’t give wet to one and not all and as our cat family members overlap in tenure, everyone eats a mix of wet and dry. Not spoiled, oh no, not at all!

We have wet food day very sparingly, usually when I want to corral the bunch. They each have little stainless bowls and when I start putting them out they riot. It’s like one of those old prison movies where the inmates bang their cups on the tables

When we found Kitten Kaboodle (Boo) he was a little sack of bones and the only way I could coax him to come to me was with wet food. After a few days he started coming to the door meowling (you know, that meow mixed with the yowl and scree noise?) and couldn’t get enough of it. He came every day for the wet food but when I bought some kibble (cheaper) he was not sure whaT it was and did not like it. He yowled at me until I brought him a can and practically climbed my leg to get to the can. I love it when they gets their wet foodies on their whiskers and noseys! Sooo adorable!This was a stray cat who was barely surviving outside. Two months later, I was able to catch him in the kitty carrier and took him to the vet and he was a whole four pounds. Poor baby was starved and near death when we found him but the wet food did him wonders. He now lives with my friend and her 11 cats and is now 12 pounds and rules the roost! He still wont eat kibble, but just loves his wet food.

Good morning and happy Hump Day, orbsters and orbabies! Yum Yum gets wet food occasionally, as a special treat. I will open a can for her on Friday morning as we are going to the cabin for the long weekend. She hasn’t had any wet food since Christmas, so she should be very happy.

We got a call from the Toronto ENT specialist yesterday, and Paul sees the radiation oncologist next Wednesday at 11AM. I’ll keep you all posted on what he says, if you so wish.

Josephine Louisa turns up her nose at WET food!!! Give her that ol’ dry kibble, in small shapes, in an old pie dish that never runs out and she’s content. But, she yeowls like a banshee for the bathtub faucet to be turned on to a dribble, so HRH can have the freshest of fresh water to drink. Go figger!!! All our others cats, had varying tastes in fresh, dry and human food. The best was Chubbers Horatio Alberto Bell, AKA Buster. He was a Breakfast Buddy; one small piece of well- buttered toast, dipped into egg yolk was his sole reason for begging at breakfast. Of course, he always knew when it was toast-n-eggs on the menu…

Just lots of sparkly shining deliciousness!!!!! 8^)

Somehow, Mippy and I have fallen into the habit where he likes to be fed his wet food from a spoon. I think I let him lick the spoon at first and it grew from there. Now, when it’s dinnertime, he looks up expectantly until Mummy comes to feed him spoonful by spoonful. But he’s not spoiled or anything . . . .

Reminds me of that Silvia cartoon about a cat bribing the vet: “Your cat must have Popeye’s chicken twice a day or she will die.”

It’s a very good thing that none of the BCN-reading crew would ever spoil their feline owners.

I think Puck’s apron was a gift from Tommy.

At least Puck doen’t have an arrow pointing to his mouth saying “insert wet food here.”

Our kitties got wet food every morning because it was the easiest way to give our tom cat his meds.

I actually changed the diet of my cats on vets orders, Miss Chief was an overweight cat & getting too many carbs and not enough exercise. They were on a kibble diet, and since swapping to only wet food, she’s slimmed down and gotten to be more playful and cheeky. She’s turned into such a chair thief… she waits until I’m two steps away before glancing at me, and taking over the chair.

Artie and Lily do well with kibble always available and a small can split between them most mornings and most evenings. Thank the gods they both seem to enjoy drinking plenty of water! Of course, as anyone knows who leaves kibble out all the time, even the merest glimpse of the bottom of the food bowl must spell imminent starvation!

Our cat Poodle, puts on a show when you I bring home new cans. I she digs for the bag with them and she spins around and trills happily as I take each one out for her to rub her face on marking them as “hers”.

I tried to use special words when communicating with Jasper so he would understand when I was talking to him and what I was saying. So I didn’t tell him it was time for kibble or wet food since those are words that might come up in talking to other humans. I didn’t want to get his hopes up if I mentioned something that wasn’t happening in his world. So kibble was “cwunchies” and wet food was "mooshies. I fed him kibble in a regular kitty bowl and his wet food on a square ceramic snack plate. I knew he was understanding me when it got to the point I could say “It’s mooshie time,” and he would go sit in front of the square plate or if I said “It’s cwunchie time,” he would go sit in front of the bowl. When I told him it was “beddy by” time, he would race to the bedroom and jump on the bed. I’m pretty sure he also understood, “Don’t even think about it,” but he often chose to ignore that one.

My guys both have kibble available 24/7, but they also get breakfast (a small serving of wet food) everyday. My senior boy also gets a little wet food in the evening when my parents dog gets his bedtime meds (he gets an antacid every night otherwise he throws up overnight) which are always accompanied by a snack for the pooch. Can’t give one a “treat” without guving to the other.

My kitty gets his wet food (,Fancy Feast broths or Sheba perfect portions) on M,W,F and Sunday. On the days he doesn’t get it, I can tell he’s disappointed.

Wet food? Please, Georgia, it’s canned food.

You don’t go in the kitchen to heat up some wet soup, do you? Or sit around the campfire eating wet beans, right?

It’s canned cat food. … and only a few rich folk can afford the stuff in pouches.

My clouder of 8 have cat chow available 24/7, but 5 of the 8 demand their daily two cans divided into 5 bowls at about 4 PM daily. If not delivered on time, the complaints come loud, long and often!

Wet food is a fairly new phenomenon in our house. Years ago I had a. at that hated canned food and would only eat one brand of dry food. Shrimp was the only other thing she would eat, which she did get daily near the end of her 20-1/2 years. My 4 girls that “take care of me” now started getting canned food in the morning because one of them started heart meds. I now have one on thyroid and allergy meds, one on seizure meds, and the one still on the heart meds. I crush pills and mix with the food. They think they are getting a treat.

My cats get wet food every once in awhile as a special treat because it is too expensive for me to serve them on a regular basis.

Orbsters!!! You just gotta read Georgia’s advice to young cartoonists! ( Under More from Breaking Cat News ) Wonderful! Read what’s UNDER that! Even wonder-fuller!!!!

Love, ya, Georgia!!!! >^.,.^<

gushyf00dz! YAAAAAAAAYYYYYY!!!!! =^..^=

Our kitten Vick pushed out a window screen and escaped into the fenced backyard 2weeks ago. After he was out for one week, eating dry dog kibble, we finally captured him by leaving wet food inside the garage. I opened the can of wet food inside my kitchen and put the food on 2 plates. My cats have not had canned food in 3 years due to budget. Yet all 4 came running when they heard the lid pop. When we got back inside with Vick the can landline were missing. I found the can but the lid is still gone.!!!

Where did my comment go?

Reboot prefers to nibble on kibble all day, just a few bites at a time. He’ll eat cans or pouches if he has to, but wet food is not his favorite. The girls, Database and Lilly, insist on overeating if there is any food available so they have to have a pouch each twice a day and no access to anything else unless they catch it. When they know there is kibble around, they will polish it off as soon as they find it, and both were getting huge. So, poor Reboot has to put up with getting pouch food as well.

I find cats definitely have a love or hate mentality to wet food. Of all the cats I’ve had in my life only 2 didn’t care for wet food. They will lick the gravy off of it and only eat what’s left if I don’t give them hard food until it’s gone. Usually, even then….I throw the rest away after a day as it starts looking crusty and dry (remember, they lick the gravy off the food itself). So my current cats’ diet consists of hard food and the occasional treat of tuna when I make a tuna sandwich for myself.

For our cats it is the Sunday night treat. Miss Obliquity, the 1 year old, is just starting to enjoy it, but is picky about the flavor. Miss Rain (11) and Miss Nikita (6) have not hesitation and will rush through their portion in hopes of getting the youngster’s.