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    Looking For Easy Home-made Cat Food With Few Resources

    Someone let me know they were flying into a nearby town on a private plane, coming from the capital, and they offered to bring me something if I needed anything. I asked for cat food, they brought me 8 kg of regular cat food! Yay! Fudge and I are both happy. :-) But I will still feed her the...
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    My Cat Chases Dogs - Is This A Common Behavior?

    Yeah, I think it must be defending her turf - not provoked at all by the dog. The dog will be just walking by, minding its own business, and Fudge will be sitting calmly on the porch, until the dog stops to check out an interesting smell. Fudge sees him and tenses up, and if the dog doesn't...
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    My Cat Chases Dogs - Is This A Common Behavior?

    My cat, Fudge, chases off any neighborhood dogs that linger too close to the house. I was really taken by surprise the first time I saw her do it. But she has done it a number of times since then, so it clearly wasn't just a fluke! At least, she did it until a couple weeks ago, when a dog...
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    Looking For Easy Home-made Cat Food With Few Resources

    Thank you, I've been able to make my own calcium supplement out of crushed eggshells, and after working out the correct proportions, I'm mixing it with cooked meat (ordinary meat, not the canned meat). Fudge seems to like it much better than the canned stuff I was giving her. I think she seems...
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    Looking For Easy Home-made Cat Food With Few Resources

    Thanks for the advice, all. My desire is not to go over the top and cook banquets for my cat, but just to make sure the food I give her is reasonably healthy. She's been a bit sick a couple of times in the past year, and I've wondered if a poorly balanced diet may have played a role - that's...
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    Termites, One Of My Cat's Favorite Snacks

    Yes, she loves to chase lizards. We have a lot of them around.
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    Looking For Easy Home-made Cat Food With Few Resources

    Thanks. Ordering pet food or supplements isn't a good option. I would probably have to order it from the US, which is super-expensive in shipping costs, and besides, the timing of any package getting here is very unpredictable - can take two weeks or two months or two years.
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    Looking For Easy Home-made Cat Food With Few Resources

    Incidentally, I've decided that cooked food would be better than raw in my case. I know all too well the condition of the meat market here, and I feel sure that raw meat from there would have a lot of nasty bacteria. Cooking should eliminate that - at least, I haven't gotten sick on...
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    Looking For Easy Home-made Cat Food With Few Resources

    I'm still researching the DIY vitamin supplement thing... I'm trying to figure out how much to give her. From looking at other sites, it sounds like too much can be just as bad as not enough. It's impossible for me to know exactly how much prey she catches, though I know she catches a lot more...
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    Termites, One Of My Cat's Favorite Snacks

    Nothing like that long, fortunately. Only for the hour or so that the termites are flying around, once they shed their wings they aren't a problem anymore. But this happens within 24 hours after every big rainstorm for the first part of the rainy season. But at least Fudge gets a lot of fun...
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    Termites, One Of My Cat's Favorite Snacks

    Here we go! A bit hard to tell in the photo, but that was Fudge as a six-month-old kitten, chasing termites that came into the house attracted to the light.
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    Termites, One Of My Cat's Favorite Snacks

    Here in Africa, every year when rainy season comes, the termites in the area sprout wings and fly out of their nests after the first heavy rains - part of their natural life cycle. The place is basically covered with them for an hour or two, then their wings drop off and they crawl away. They...
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    Cats Don't Keep Mice Away??? Seriously???

    I have a cat that likes to hunt, and not just for something to play with but she really eats what she catches. But I have heard that kittens have to learn by a certain age that animals like mice, rats, etc. are actually things they can eat. Otherwise, they might play with them or even kill...
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    New Member From Central Africa

    Her mother was my coworkers' cat, Moose, who was also a calico. Most of her kittens were black and white or orange and white, but very occasionally she would produce a calico. In March 2013 she had a litter of three kittens: two male and one female. The males were one mostly white, and one...
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    New Member From Central Africa

    Thank you! She is six years old.
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