Tarifa sings and dances, too and I love when she does that!
This is wonderful!!
No matter how much I have tried to take Jackson Galaxy’s advice of an intense play session before meals, my cats just stare at me like, “where’s our food, human?” I think they’re smart enough to know that they don’t need to hunt for food, the human has it! Their idea of “working” for food is to seduce me into feeding them. And it works every time.Maybe my favorite time of the day, even more than the belly rides I give her several times a day, is feeding her first dinner. She's her most adorable self at this time. She joins me up on the kitchen counter with a little spring in her step and a "feed me" whine in her trills. She nudges me and gives me "hurry up" nips on my arm while I thaw her raw portion. Once we've finished with her raw portion, she climbs over me and around me trying to get at her plated portion while I'm still weighing it out for her.
Are cats sensitive to activity after eating? I would think I'd throw up playing as hard as she does after meals. She wants to play after meals instead of before them.
Then again, I'm usually in zombie mode before her meals trying to plate her food so I can crawl back into bed before I fully wake up . It rarely works that way. But she also knows how to request play by walking into the office and sitting in front of the closet door where I used to keep her toys. I now keep them in a bin out of her reach but she still knows that if she sits in front of that door, I'll pick up the hint about what she wants. If, however, I took her literally at her word and open the door, she remains sitting there, looking up at me, as if saying, "you know what I'm asking for here and that isn't it."
Good poop at 10 pm!
There's still time for a dosing day disaster. But so far, she seems content with the one-and-done. She came out of the litterbox and ate 3/4 of her second dinner in one go. She'll start her night under the bookcase. This may be the most peace I get all night. She'll be out in two hours doing the food, feeders, belly rides circuit for the rest of the night.
Cats in the wild are used to stalking, chasing and bringing down their prey, but cats in a domestic situation are used to having their food provided for them, so no need to hunt it first.
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I love the description of Krista's pre-feeding "song and dance"!
this morning (more so than usual ) and that’s why she was in a no-food coma on the bed when I left.
I've known others who ditched their auto boxes after they failed to impress. You're right. People are brainwashed into thinking that "latest technology" is an improvement over whatever the existing thing is. Not always right.Noon time poop cigars captured on the camera.
It also looks like she cleaned second breakfast finally.
I think she was just full of
I’m going to drive across town over lunch to scoop her poop. I don’t need to. She put it in the one box and she can pee in the other one all day long. But just knowing it’s there...we’ll both be happier when it’s scooped.
I had an automatic litterbox. It had awful problems. We’re both happier with the manual boxes. Less work too. Those automatic ones required more cleaning to compensate for their shortcomings. Sometimes automation isn’t worth it.
Such a good cat parent!
I do it out of fear as much as love. Today was a good example of why. It was a blow it out both ends day. I think she seriously hates Mondays.Such a good cat parent!
I used the hand tool on the spot bot before I dragged that puddle with the upright. Hence the bonus half tool. 
Well, fear and loathing of Moandaze is pretty common, yes? and thankfully you got that SpotBot. *Poor Krista*I do it out of fear as much as love. Today was a good example of why. It was a blow it out both ends day. I think she seriously hates Mondays.
It was a 2.5 Bissell mess. Two poops for the spot bot and I pulled out the upright for her massive poop puke.
I did switch her raw overnight. Couldn’t find Selects that passed the nose test to stage the change. I gave her a poop to see if it would agree before I ramped up the portion. Apparently she needed another poop. Or three.
Glad to see things have improved since the "cat tree fiasco"
We shall see. It seems like we have good poop days and bad ones. And then there was yesterday. Yesterday was in a class of its own. It deserves its own wing in her pooping hall of shame--except I don't shame her about her poops. Not to her face anyway.Glad to see things have improved since the "cat tree fiasco"
Not sure about the baking soda/enzymatic cleaner issue, but I've always used Nature's Miracle (any of the formulas) and the scent is very light, plus it dissipates quickly.We shall see. It seems like we have good poop days and bad ones. And then there was yesterday. Yesterday was in a class of its own. It deserves its own wing in her pooping hall of shame--except I don't shame her about her poops. Not to her face anyway.
I feel bad that the enzyme cleaner we have is scented. It's all I could find at the time. It's certainly a better scent than before, but it's stronger than either of us would prefer. I worked in a layer of baking soda on top of that to hopefully soak up some of either scent. I hope I'm not "drowning" or deactivating the enzymes.
I hadn't intended on us going anywhere for Christmas. I usually get a room at a local hotel and have a little staycation on Christmas Eve. I figured this year I would skip it because of Krista and her costs. But Krista is really making a case for taking her with me this year so I can come back and do a deep clean of the apartment without her or her little lungs in the way.
It's Nature's Miracle. It is a light scent. But it's still a scent nonetheless. And since she laid down several bombs and puddles yesterday, the apartment is drenched in it.
