Month: November 2024

  • Juno’s morning – a setback or feather-eating?

    This morning at 6.00am, Juno passed out blood-tinged, formed but slightly soft stools. This looked like a setback as the stools had been well-formed though a bit soft since Sunday morning, and by late last night, the stools were already hardening up too. However, she’s active, alert and her appetite is fantastic. Shortly after breakfast,…

  • The Blondies’ morning

    I hit the lottery with the Blondies this morning. Three of them ate a raw meal for breakfast. Only Akira stayed at the lookout and refused to come down. Quite an achievement, I must say. Hopefully this goes on, ie. some days they will still eat raw meals. They were given their kibble treat after…

  • Ginger’s eye is improving

    Ginger’s injured eye is improving. As always, Minnie hero-worships Ginger and looks after him. How sweet! Perhaps Minnie is thankful that Ginger mentored all her sons? Or maybe Minnie just “clicks” with Ginger!

  • Juno’s news and the sweet little thing that she is

    So far, Juno’s faeces have been nice and well-formed. They are still just a bit soft, but maybe that is due to the diet. I gave her Kaolin-Pectin this morning. Tomorrow there is one more dose of Promax and that completes the medication except for the supplement, Cobalaplex, which is given on alternate days for…

  • Back to old habits!

    I couldn’t help myself, so I went out to buy some raw beef to try it on the Blondies. In my almost-19 years of caring for cats, it is only this year that I have ever bought raw beef to feed them. Firstly, I feel so sorry for the cows and secondly, I thought wild…

  • Going back to the old reliable brands – Primal Freeze-Dried and Monge

    Way back, our cats were on Monge cat food and Primal Freeze-Dried. My exploration for different cat food is all because of the Blondies’ fussiness.  I figured if they like kibble so much, I have to find a variety for them. Currently, they are only on Cindy’s Naturelle Grainfree kibble. So a few days ago,…

  • Breakfast time at dawn!

    I woke up at 3.50am this morning. It’s crazy, but I could not go back to sleep, so I decided to get an early start to catch up on the news and some reading. But Tabs, Riley and Juno call came to the kitchen, so I fed them. Juno ate home-cooked food. Then, kibble with…

  • Dinner by perseverance…again!

    The Monsters’ dinner went well, as usual, so I shall not write about that. They are great eaters, thankfully. Juno had an early dinner of a home-cooked meal. Tabs had small meals throughout the day. Now comes the Blondies… Today I decided to persevere because their refusal to eat wet food (raw or canned) has…

  • Juno’s yummy home-cooked lunch!

    Thank you for eating my home-cooked food, Juno! I have thought about it and for now, Juno’s staple food will be cooked food and kibble will be a standby snack or meal replacement if she needs a change. Cooked food is preferred because it has moisture. Yummy, yummy! Back to her playhouse!

  • A revised treatment for Juno’s butt sore

    Since we were at the clinic already, I managed to purchase the small e-collar for Juno and consult the vet about the treatment for the butt sore. The vet said I could clean it with Chlorhexidine and apply Fustadin instead of Triderm cream. So that’s what we did after we came home. Sorry, Juno, you’ll…

  • Ginger’s injured eye and ear ceruminous adenoma/glandular hypoplasia

    This morning, I noticed that Ginger’s right eye was injured and tearing. He was also squinting, but he ate his breakfast as usual. There was a massive fight between Smurfy and Robin yesterday and Ginger was not involved at all. When I intervened, Ginger was just looking on. Perhaps there was a fight last night?…

  • Creamy appears to be fine

    Creamy came and ate his breakfast today. He appears to be fine now, but just to be safe, I still gave him a dose of Feline Gut Soothe. I saw him passing loose stools yesterday morning and he didn’t want to eat anything until evening. As I’ve always said, it’s so much more challenging looking…

  • Riley and Juno eating kibble

    Riley is also a kibble-queen, like the Blondies. Is it this younger generation that is so? Anyway, this morning, when I poured out some kibble for Riley, Juno came rushing to the kitchen! She had earlier already eaten an assortment of food, actually, but if she can still eat, please do! Juno is on a…

  • Tabs’ diet

    Tabs qualifies for the as-long-as-you-eat diet since she is already a senior and is on palliative care for PCKD. By right, she should be on renal food, but she also needs a change of taste and variety at times. Her renal snack is RC Renal kibble. She doesn’t eat much at a go, more like…

  • Juno at dawn

    I got up at 4.30am this morning. Gerald was already meowing at the porch. He just knows the moment I get up. Offered a bit of my home-cooked food. He ate some but not all of it. Of course he still prefers the familiar. Juno also came into the kitchen, so I offered some of…