Bathing in the sun

Mowgli can be a little grumpy in the morning

Kitty Cuisine

Q: What does about 30 pounds of raw cat food look like?
A: That pic is your answer.

Q: What does it involve?
A: Breaking down a bunch of chickens and removing most of the bones (if the bone bits are detectable, Mowgli eats around them and spits them back out, so bonemeal just works easier and ensures that the calcium : phosphorus ratio is correct), grinding the meat, grinding/pureeing chicken liver and heart, making a delicious mix of egg yolks, water, and necessary vitamins and supplements, combining all three (see above) and then running it through the grinder with a smaller plate to make sure the only bones that made it in (wings) are thoroughly ground for Mr. Picky. Then putting it into containers and freezing.

Q: What does mixing that up feel like?
A: Sort of like hand mixing ciabatta...which only the bakers I know can appreciate....at least that is how I went about it to make sure everything was equally dispersed...

 Q: Why are you mixing it in a cooler?
A: Because we didn't have a bowl/pot big enough and because that cooler had been filled with ice to keep everything cold before it got ground, it was nice and chilly to keep the temperature lower. The mix pretty much went in within two minutes of the ice getting dumped after getting wiped out to make sure it was clean.

Q: Does he actually like it?
A: I am going to say yes based on this picture....

Close-up

Q: Have you noticed any changes?
A: Non-stinky poops, excited about eating, more energy, shiny and soft fur (well shinier and softer, it was already shiny and soft), and despite losing weight from vomiting during the first attempt at transition (due to me not realizing that after years of dry food he needed supplemental digestive enzymes and also that he must be allergic to animals with hooves), he actually looks bigger due to more muscle now.

Keeping a close eye on things

Camo Kitty

Find the Mowgles

 

 

 

 

 

 

This so makes me want to have to go to school in the morning...

 

 

Your Answer is as Good as Mine

I don't even know what to say...no catnip was involved...just one of those "I'm going to go nuts" cat moments...

And ignore my giggling and talking...

Finally Here

For several years, Mowgli has had a cat wheel. For a while I thought he never used it with more than his front paws, later, I learned he did get totally on it, go nuts, and run. This was usually in the middle of the night as you slept in the bed next to it...When the wheel got brought up from my parents house he immediately resumed using it, more so than I ever noticed before at times. But there was a problem, it was a bit too small for his long body, and sometimes his hind legs would go flying off. The decision was made...it was time for a bigger wheel...

But this decision was made at about the same time that a cat (I think it was a cheetoh, a breed created with bengals) was highlighted on an Animal Planet show using one, so the company was suddenly slammed, and the waiting game began. After a few months, it finally shipped...

*Sniff*

Ready....set...go!

*Sniff*

What is it????

I love boxes

A lot

What are you doing to my box?

Oooh, another box!

I got two boxes...

After the wheel was set up, he focused his attention between it, and the boxes before they were broken down and carried out...His time is now being split between sleeping, running on the wheel, eating, running on the wheel immediately (ya I'm waiting for the puke to come), back to sleeping, meowing to go outside, running on the wheel, playing with his favorite balls, maybe some more sleeping and eating, then back to running on the wheel....

Troublemaker

Mowgli prevents homework from being done

Dislikes shades being shut

 

And steals from shopping bags

Ok, so it was for him, but not until after he was done eating

Local catnip, not surprising he found it. It's very strong smelling compared to the best I've found in pet stores!

He refuses to eat big food items in his food dish and will drag them out. If I put something under the food where he takes it, he drags it off again...

But, he doesn't really understand and/or have the patience to work at getting big things apart. So after a few minutes I take it back, wash it, cut it into smaller chunks, and give him some back...then when he is out of the way, disinfect the floor. (And yes that is a raw chicken drumstick, he is on an almost completely raw diet)

And another bengal troublemaker...Mowgli's cousin showing my brother why flowers were a bad idea...