catposting for August (Fluff and the kicker toy, Fiddles and the baby food)

Fluff having a snooze:

Fluff having a sit:

Got him a new kicker toy a few months ago, it’s a hit:

Fiddlesticks busy shedding on a pile of just-washed-and-folded laundry:

Fiddlesticks plopping down in a corner of the vet’s office like she owns the place:

I asked last year for wet food recs that don’t generate such a mountain of trash. (Fiddlesticks expects some every morning, but she only finishes the gravy/puree stuff, which only seems to come in plastic sachets.) (Fluff isn’t interested at all. At first I gave him some wet food daily, but I’m guessing he didn’t like it much and only ate it out of food-insecurity, because at some point he just flat-out stopped.)

“Chicken puree baby food that comes in glass jars” came up. And it’s been a hit! For the sake of variety, I still give Fiddlesticks the cat puree about half the time, and baby food the other half.

…Then, at this vet visit, they said “She’s lost more weight than we’re happy with, possibly because she has this bad tooth, which likely makes it hurt to eat dry food. Also, please give her this course of antibiotics, which can be put in her food, as long as she takes it twice a day.”

So I started giving her twice as much wet food. Same serving size, but morning and evening. At this point, the antibiotics are long finished and she’s had the tooth out, but I assume it’s still good to keep her weight up. Plus, it would feel pretty rude to stop.

Soooo in spite of everyone’s best efforts, we’re back up to generating the same amount of plastic trash I started with!

Could be worse, could’ve been twice as much trash. But still. The irony.

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Cat food rec request

So, first to pay the cat tax, this little old lady is Fiddlesticks:

She likes her wet food in the morning. But: if it has chicken shreds/tuna chunks/other solid pieces in there, they don’t make it all the way into her mouth? She just pushes them around her dish while licking up all the sauce.

There’s this one brand, the Delectables Lickable Bisque line, where the ingredients are fully pureed. It’s all gravy. Put some of this down, and she has no trouble licking it clean.

The only drawback is…the Lickable Bisques come in these small plastic sachets. I am churning out so much garbage for the sake of this lady’s breakfast.

Does any cat food brand have a product that (a) is 100% pureed and (b) comes in a jar? Or a can? Something where you can scoop out a couple spoonfuls per day, for a couple weeks, and then recycle it at the end?

Because I would really like to start buying some.

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Hardcore booping action spotted in the wild

(feat. my halfhearted efforts to brighten up the Void Tortie so she’s visible next to the Fluff)

Exhausted from a long day of boop

https://erinptah.wordpress.com/2024/04/02/we-found-him-the-booper/

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