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Why can't I close the patio door? Misfit...

All three of my cats have slender, dry-ish, dark poops that don't stink. That's with a regular rotation of chicken, beef and pork mixes. Occasionally, I don't have meat thawed in time and give them some canned food. That definitely changes the consistency/color to thicker, wetter and lighter...

It is good to discourage "rough house" play if you have children or elderly in your home...or really anyone who isn't accustomed to cat behavior. Children can play so rough with a cat that it makes the cat more aggressive! The good check-ups at the vet's office are great. My geriatric-aged...

One of my two former ferals will go from letting me pet her belly to "attacking" my hand, grabbing with her front paws, kicking with her back paws, and biting. It's not an aggressive attack though as much as playful. I sort of encourage her, instead of trying to discourage it. She has an...

I started feeding my pets a balanced raw diet in 2008, before it was considered a "socially acceptable" choice. All I've noticed is healthier pets, fewer vet bills, and longer lives. No aggression.

Misfit and Tangent

The pork butt I pulled out of the deep freeze Friday night is still frozen in the center, but soft enough on the ends to slice off a "chunk" for a pork dish this evening. I'll slow-braise a bit early afternoon. Thinking about making some pasta with a cream cheese and mushroom sauce with green...

Hot pizza and cold pizza taste like two completely separate foods. I like both, too!

If the pork were just for me, I'd thaw at room temp (or in a sink of cold water), but 90% will go into a batch of raw pet food. I prefer to keep the meat for pet food as cold as possible, even chopping while still a bit frosty, to keep down potential bacteria. It gets chopped, mixed, put into...

I'm going to caramelize some sweet onion and Honeycrisp apples with cinnamon, brown sugar and butter. Last night I moved a pork butt roast from the freezer to the fridge, but it's still frozen solid. I figured the ends would thaw enough to slice some bits off to go with the apples, but...

I haven't been posting much since last winter, when I was cooking from scratch every day. It got too hot for me to cook, so catching up on what was for dinner the last 6 months was "cold and easy" (and boring) - lots of peanut butter and/or tuna sandwiches, fresh fruit and cheese, and anything...

I'm thankful to have food, shelter, clothing....and $2/gal gasoline! Happy Thanksgiving Everyone!

Not time-consuming like crochet or knitting, but I did make a "cat crib" with a pet kennel, furnished it with a hammock made out of a fleece blanket and some jute rope, and added some dangling toys. Farrell:

Farrell: "Hey, when did you shrink the crock pot?" Not too many months earlier, she could curl up inside it.

No cats to be seen yesterday at the office. It was our first cold windy day of fall with light rain all day. The food I put out Wednesday was gone, but I figure raccoons or opossum ate it. I put out more on Friday and it went untouched all day. I'll try again on Monday, but I think the cats...

Windows 8.1 (version 6.3) and Internet Explorer 11 (version 11.0.9600.19503, update versions 11.0.147) It's not a huge deal to use Firefox. I've just used Internet Explorer for many years. A few websites lately have a page that pops up with an alert telling me I need to use a different...

Site looks fine and functions well on Firefox, which is not my normal browser. It seems to be almost completely impossible to navigate on Internet Explorer, which is the browser I've used for decades. I guess IE is going obsolete. Browser choice may be causing other peoples' issues. This is...

I wish I'd had some "real food" for them when I first spotted them Monday, either cat food or meat...not potato chips. :oops: But yes, I'll be back at work Friday. I guess that's the hard part, not being there every day, working only 3 days a week 3 towns away from where I live. Too far to...

I'm off in less than an hour and....no cats today. The road construction guys are gone, so I'm thinking that the noise Monday scared the cats across the highway and they went back "home", probably in the vacant lot. I only put about 30 pieces of kitten kibble out this morning so I could go out...

Thank you. Yes, Misfit's name evolved from KitKat to Miss Fit because she's so sleek, lean and muscular....then to Misfit the cat who wasn't supposed to be tamed. Good memory! I almost forgot about Dasher...the third feral kitten who was abandoned by momma the same spring/summer as Farrell...